Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But how can President Aquino overhaul the leadership of the armed forces after she has already commended them for putting down the coup ? ’ asks a congressman and former military officer , Mr Bonifacio Gillego . |
| 2 | Do use them for mopping up the blood on the new road . |
| 3 | And er , I thought I 'd probably have wall paper on that wall , you know , use , use the curtains just as plenty of fullness , but have them for keeping out the light or keeping in the heat , |
| 4 | Sivell seems to have the old and young balanced quite well and he will have to stop himself from dusting down the mantlepiece once more . |
| 5 | By Oct. 14 he had resigned himself to submitting merely the question of proxy voting by husbands to the seven-member Constitutional Council set up in 1989 . |
| 6 | He comes , and after a heated discussion he commits himself to closing down the factory by 1992 . |
| 7 | It was on this stretch of line near Didcot that William McCrae tried to kill himself by jumping off a train travelling at nearly seventy miles an hour . |
| 8 | The last remark is odd : her half-brother Charles certainly killed himself by jumping off a bridge , and it is unlikely that the deaths of her sisters ‘ Topsy ’ and ‘ Baby ’ were due to an accidental overdose of veronal . |
| 9 | She warned me against noticing only the differences between life in the Indian sub-continent and in England and she warned me about being seduced by the apparent ‘ exoticness ’ of it all . |
| 10 | Be careful not to qualify praise ( do not , for instance , say , ‘ Thank you for taking out the rubbish — why do n't you do that all the time ? ’ ) . |
| 11 | The RMI will certainly help you in working out a QDM , since the pointers indicate your QDM and no calculation is necessary . |
| 12 | It is something like ripping off a plaster . |
| 13 | Of course night calls are usually made in a crisis and the help normally available in residential homes may make it easier to cope with a minor one without calling out a doctor . |
| 14 | Motocross riders are a tough breed … no amount of fog was going to stop them from checking out the sport 's newest circuit this morning . |
| 15 | That is intended to assist them in determining how the funds might best be dispersed . |
| 16 | Pink riding hats , turquoise waistcoats , stetsons ( Jane just stopped herself from asking where the corks were ) and they wore all these glories even when they were mucking out . |
| 17 | Noticing a badly dressed woman while driving in Knightsbridge , she ca n't restrain herself from rolling down the window and crying out ‘ Why ? ’ in sheer exasperation . |
| 18 | The waitress made off again , and Dimity applied herself to pouring out the tea . |
| 19 | When she first developed her symptoms the doctors had told her it was ‘ neuritis ’ , and she discovered the diagnosis herself by picking up a magazine article in a cafe . |
| 20 | Apparently they like having things explained to them without understanding either the explanation or even what an explanation is . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been to see the dog , ’ Anabelle replied , and told him about taking away the dog 's food . |
| 22 | They blamed her for splitting up the family and on many occasions were abusive to her . |
| 23 | The bald star had been left in tears earlier when fans jeered her for ripping up a picture of the Pope on a US chat show . |
| 24 | It would also explain the delay in releasing her after handing over the letters . ’ |
| 25 | An inquest 's heard how an experienced woman rider died when her horse somersaulted on top of her after tripping over a jump . |
| 26 | PUNK violinist Nigel Kennedy has escaped having a good behaviour pledge slapped on him after smashing up a hotel room . |
| 27 | The rapid fire of questions was deliberate , she knew , designed to scare her into blurting out the truth . |
| 28 | Blanche fished , tickling him into keeping up the conversation . |
| 29 | He did n't actually say the words , but they were implicit in the final look he gave her before disappearing down the companionway . |
| 30 | Ladbroke 's had a book open on whether he would get round inside the distance but the far spicier price would be odds against him in bawling out a porter in Bangkok . |