Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no one else on the Tory Benches , so perhaps we should give them time to get someone in to act as the Minister 's runner . |
| 2 | Contact SCIAF to have someone out to speak to the parish/group/school |
| 3 | I hold them up to look through the paper . |
| 4 | Although it was very rough at first , but I got used with it even when the seasickness caught me up going round the top of the highland , but once he was away from that and er I was n't a drinker in these days but some old man says to me , er before you go to a meal , he says , take a drop of brandy . |
| 5 | And every day he spends in bed wastes away a little more of his authority : parliament does n't like sick leaders , it casts them out to die on the cold , cold slopes of the House of Lords . |
| 6 | The C.C. said that they called him in to look at the body . |
| 7 | It might be a way of tempting him down to sit in the bar , sometimes . ’ |
| 8 | It had been Sister Cooney 's idea to take him down to help in the library . |
| 9 | When visiting a church on the south coast , I saw the following notice for the Young Wives ' Social Evening : ‘ If your husband has nothing on , bring him along to join in the fun ! ’ |
| 10 | But the accident has n't put him off taking to the road himself . |
| 11 | but oh dear but he , mum did get him off to sleep in the end |
| 12 | A former international sportsman who was stabbed while he was out jogging says the attack has n't put him off running in the future . |
| 13 | He clawed at the edge of the closing door , but the butt of a lance shoved hard under his ribs heaved him back gasping into the room , and the door closed on his convulsed face . |
| 14 | You were pulling him back to get on the dance floor ! |
| 15 | Apparently he promised not to attack Douglas Hurd personally , but then quotes stitched him up and hung him out to dry over the classlessness thing . |
| 16 | perhaps she thought , that 's it , I bet she writes it down chatting in the exam . |
| 17 | That 's why I kept putting it off to go to the doctor to get help 'cos I thought that , with me having kids , he would automatically ring the social services and tell them . |
| 18 | You 've got ta pull it up look from the waist that 's it |
| 19 | I had , for once , no official papers to read and picked it up to read in the tram . |
| 20 | Lucker fills up and checks the car , whilst I buy some food , zap it through the microwave , and bring it out steaming to the car . |
| 21 | As the money flowed in , first in a dribble , then in a torrent , Nora began to move it around according to the strategy they had devised . |
| 22 | joined us on to assist in the office . |
| 23 | joined us on to assist in the laboratory , ( she likes to be called ! ) . |
| 24 | I think it 's said it , if there 's anything on pertaining to the County Council , like highway matters , then it could be useful , but I mean if it just , there 's no point in him sitting here to discuss planning applications , because that enquiry 's |
| 25 | At the weekend Ian took us out sailing on the lake . |