Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [be] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd pay for it myself but my card 's up to the limit . ’ |
| 2 | As soon as my father was out of the way she became a holy terror . |
| 3 | We were downstairs , laid out like sardines under the Morrison shelter , but when this happened my Dad was up like a shot and racing up the stairs with a bucket of sand , ready to throw it over what we assumed was an incendiary bomb which had come through the roof . |
| 4 | Luckily my mother was out of the room at the time , or Dawn and I might have been sent to our room for giving her precious cat a heart attack . |
| 5 | Its heyday was round about the 1930s and not all that many pure examples of it are being published today , though there are enough to make it a possible type of book to write if you are strongly inclined this way . |
| 6 | Her car is out in the parking area . |
| 7 | Tax band:Letters will start going out in mid-January informing all householders of the band which their home is in for the new council tax . |
| 8 | Det Chief Supt Ken John , co-ordinating the murder inquiry , said : ‘ We feel that we owe it to the gay community to go out to the community and warn individual practising homosexuals who are frequenting various pubs , restaurants and bars in London to be aware that somebody who is prepared to attack their community is about in the city . |
| 9 | We 've some good news at last for Swindon Town fans — their team 's through to the third round of the coca cola cup |
| 10 | Annie was only too glad to cope with the clothes while her husband was out of the way . |
| 11 | The bacon and the cheese had all been transferred to the room-sized storage refrigerator behind the shop , and while her husband was out of the way Rennie Hamilton loaded all the groceries into the canvas bag and did a quick addition on the list and noted the amount on the end of the growing column in the credit book . |
| 12 | Her husband was out with a fare in another car , and she radioed him to stop and pick me up on his way . |
| 13 | Money is tight so we need to be quite clear on I mean for instance I mean the seats have been recovered you know people smoking in the seats when they should n't be smoking and putting they 're putting their cigarette 's out on the floor I do n't know |
| 14 | When she knew her daughter was out of the room , and still with the poker in her hand , Peggy took a step towards him , saying , ‘ Well , that should be enough for you , should n't it ? enough proof . |
| 15 | But becoming her companion is out of the question . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm very sorry about your cat , about Melusina , I know how fond you were of her , but giving you compensation is out of the question . |
| 17 | As part of a series of exhibitions which reassess the work of individual sculptors , Galerie Patrice Bellanger is presenting an exhibition of the work of Joseph-Charles Marin ( 1759–1834 ) , pupil , rival and friend of Claude Michel Clodion , an exhibition of whose work is on at the Louvre . |
| 18 | First past the post was the Cotswold Press whose sample was back on the doormat on the 16th . |
| 19 | To those for whom gas was out of the question , and candles or lamps were expensive luxuries , firelight was often the single source of light as well as heat , as George Eliot notes in Adam Bede : ‘ It was a pretty scene in the red fire-light : for there were no candles ; why should there be , when the fire was so bright , and was reflected from all the pewter and the polished oak ? ’ |
| 20 | His contract is up at the end of the season , and there will be the traditional periodic reports of other clubs ' interest in him . |
| 21 | His cottage is up on the mountain and he 'll be grazing up there … ’ |
| 22 | An exhibtion of his work is on at the Midlands Arts Gallery and you can also see his work at the Malvern Festival at the end of May . |
| 23 | So I arranged for one of the estate stalkers to take the remains up the river , when the Colonel and his lady were out for the day . ’ |
| 24 | It was a cold winter , and he soon found out that the theatre was centrally heated and the heating in his dressing-room was on throughout the day and night , so he moved in . |
| 25 | he said , she said I thought that was his name , cos his name was up on the board I said oh yeah |
| 26 | Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all . |
| 27 | Dad goes on like that , especially when his secretary 's off with a nervous breakdown again . |
| 28 | He says much of his success is down to the backroom boys . |
| 29 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc chief Jerry Sanders is not at all phased by Intel Corp 's excoriation and he told the conference his company was off to a good start for another year of record revenues , with a target of $1,650m in 1993 , $2,000m in 1994 and $3,000m by 1997 , and expects to ship 4m Am486 chips in 1994 for a 15% market share . |
| 30 | Stewpid is up on traction , which means his arm is up in the air , so that he ca n't lie down at all , even to sleep . |