Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the drawings , he sketched various elevations , then cut them out and transferred them on to the blocks of wood to be bandsawn . |
| 2 | And then marooned on her black flesh , two circles round her throat , and her chin pointing at the ceiling like the toe of a boot on a corpse , one arm bent backwards , nothing on except the slacks around her ankles , but no way in , at least none that he could find , and the cheap carpet burning his elbows and his knees , and sleep beginning to ooze from her ridged lips . |
| 3 | Though she had not pressed them , as her friend Lois pressed them in between the pages of her Bible . |
| 4 | Japan said that it intended to build up its military forces to a high level so that it could cut them down in the interests of peace . |
| 5 | The last leg took me down through the fringes of the Forest of Dean along a narrowing spur . |
| 6 | To craft the pots so patiently from earth and water and then deliver them over to the mercies of fire and air . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Now I come to think of it , ’ he said , easing himself down into the depths of his very easy chair , ‘ that Mrs Entwhistle from the corner said there was something about your dad in one of the Sunday papers , I do n't remember which . ’ |
| 8 | In the winter of 1945–6 , when he took himself off into the mountains on spiritual retreat , he wrote to one of the United States Army 's cultural attachés with whom he later became great friends : |
| 9 | What , after all , is the difference between a priest acting in the highest sense of his vocation , or a prophet compelled into declamation , or such a saint ( even unknowing ) , opening himself up to the mercies of God , becoming a channel for them to the world ? |
| 10 | Just as the early European explorers of the North Atlantic would bring back the tusks of narwhals and pass them off as the horns of unicorns , so would the early Arabian and Indian sailors bring back the massive bones of the Cassowary as evidence of the giant " roc " of the Sinbad sagas , or the Garuda bird of Hindu mythology , which is today the symbol of Indonesia 's national airline . |
| 11 | The officials who sent them off from the ports with the loaded railway-wagons gave them rations for the number of days which the grain would in normal times take to its destination . |
| 12 | They are greedy for Humans , the sidh , and if they can once trap you with their music they will carry you down to the caves beneath the sea and steal one of your five senses and tear out your soul . ’ |
| 13 | We ca n't have you down in the dumps like this . |
| 14 | It therefore becomes a little universe of independent reality in revolt from God and the rest of time , and able to fence itself off from the lessons of the past and the demands of the future . |
| 15 | Are you off to the wilds of Illinois ? ’ |
| 16 | If there is anything capable of lifting you up to the gates of heaven , then that is it . |
| 17 | Set in the heart of Newmarket , the horseracing capital of the world , the recently extended museum 's six galleries are packed with exhibits that will take you back to the origins of racing … when Charles II rode in matches across the glorious heath . |
| 18 | But can I just refer you back to the words of P B G three where it says quite clearly in paragraph thirty three . |
| 19 | He hauled me up from the bowels of the villa , took off his jacket and placed it tenderly round my shoulders . |
| 20 | But it requires the death of the old body and the recreation of a new one out of the mind-seeds of the old subtle structure . |
| 21 | Convocation must be constructive and strive to get something out of the Alumni for everyone in return for the demands it will make ! |
| 22 | Similarly , Charlie 's incarnation as a Norse explorer among the Skroelings , ending when a man who seems to be Erik the Red took his crew and ‘ steered them for three days among floating ice , each floe crowded with strange beasts that ‘ tried to sail with us , ’ said Charlie , ‘ and we beat them back with the handles of the oars ’ surely relates to the long sea voyage , an account of which originally formed the bulk of the ‘ Death by Water ’ section . |
| 23 | The supply chain project seeks to achieve this by focusing on future customer needs and driving them back through the activities of the business to make Guinness Brewing GB operate as effectively as possible for the company and its customers . |
| 24 | ‘ They were n't stopping , so I just took the mood down and told them I never knew any of them back in the days of groups like Dynamic 3 . |
| 25 | The Kadets had won the largest block of deputies to the First Duma , they had enjoyed the spectacle of leading figures in the government sounding them out on the terms on which they would enter the cabinet ; power seemed almost within their grasp . |
| 26 | Then , when he fell £83,000 in arrears with the mortgage , he befriended Frank and Sheila Collings and conned them out of the deeds of their Twickenham home . |
| 27 | 2.17 This exercise has been described in a different way by Lord Diplock in Mallett v McMonagle [ 1970 ] AC 166 at p174 : The purpose of an award of damages under the Fatal Accidents Act is to provide the widow and other dependants of the deceased with a capital sum , which , with prudent management , will be sufficient to supply them with material benefits of the same standards and duration as would have been provided for them out of the earnings of the deceased had he not been killed by the tortious act of the defendant , credit being given for the value of any material benefits which will accrue to them ( otherwise than as the fruits of insurance ) as a result of his death . |
| 28 | The fire was built up higher than usual to guide them back to the camp , but also , Riven thought , because they were imagining the packs of grypesh coming after them out of the heights of the hills . |
| 29 | ‘ Keep them out of the hands of the police , that 's the thing . |
| 30 | The policy here is to have the vast majority of these funds ‘ up-front ’ , ie to distribute them out to the Districts to be used by Practice Teams for the purchase of individual places for individual users — what we are calling ‘ spot purchase ’ . |