Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late seventies some people in the mainstream of literary study were inclined to believe , or halfbelieve , these ideas , or to try them on for size . |
| 2 | These pieces can recharge your ship or warp you out of difficulty . |
| 3 | To fill in the travelling time chant leaders are actively engaged in trying out new versions of old chants or making them up from scratch . |
| 4 | No detractor however imaginative or ingenious could find anything that would pain him or put him out of countenance . |
| 5 | or write you down as time scale , you 'd presumably talking about planning up to six weeks perhaps before she trots around . |
| 6 | Whether exposing a bent cop in the system , comforting the widow of a colleague , or shooting it out with drug peddlers in downtown LA , he administered the covenant in Gun Law . |
| 7 | No I backed the first winner today and that got me out of trouble . |
| 8 | In this encounter and during many others following , as it turned out , his God proved more willing to try him than to catch him up to safety ; and in this trial of his will , Kit Everard failed . |
| 9 | He noted the rapid , undignified scramble by which the culprit extricated himself from the ropes on the river path , followed by ominous little trickles of loose earth ; and the exaggerated dignity with which he compensated as soon as he was clear , his slender back turned upon the voice that blasted him out of danger , his crest self-consciously reared in affected disregard of sounds which could not possibly be directed at him . |
| 10 | As once you have dealt with history , you have to put in place something that keeps it up to date , without too much labour and without erm , a major hole there where things fall into the middle cover and come out . |
| 11 | People really do have to understand the trauma we are talking about with moving people out of homes , the trauma that moving them out for refurbishment is bad enough . |
| 12 | Given this , practitioners should neither blindly administer selective assessment procedures , nor dismiss them out of hand . |
| 13 | She knew better than to invite him back to Water Gypsy for a coffee . |
| 14 | The won the tournament in 1959 , but was n't able to compete in 1960 due to a serious knee infection that kept him out of action for most of the first half of the season . |
| 15 | And what better community could you get than in Spring Street , he would ask , for had n't it a shop that supplied food , and two others that fitted you out from top to bottom ? |
| 16 | But now , this dinghy club that my mate 's and he , he 's got tractors at Cromer that take them out of water so |
| 17 | He disliked the use of extemporary prayers , saying , ‘ There needed no other confutation than to take them down in shorthand and shew them afterwards to those men that had been so audacious as to utter them . ’ |
| 18 | That is , they were conscious of the rule , and rather than following it out of obligation , they were using it for their own benefit , as a sort of ‘ officializing ’ or ‘ universalizing ’ strategy in order to ‘ cloak themselves in legitimation ’ . |
| 19 | Jim became team captain in succession to Ian in October 1977 and led us up to Division One in 1978–79 as 2nd Division champions , then to the top of the Football League on 29 September 1979 , scoring as spectacular a goal in our 4–1 trouncing of Ipswich Town as any football follower could ever hope to witness . |
| 20 | And she was all right because when I got back here , she drove up and asked me over for coffee . |
| 21 | ‘ It goes against all common sense to take the most fundamental element of ecosystem , with the land and habitats it supports , and sell it off for profit , as the Tories are trying to do , ’ he said . |
| 22 | When they were n't running across it , cheered on by the headmaster , they were snipping bits off it and bringing them back to school to put in jars . |
| 23 | We knew that they were testing them , and checking it over and bringing it up to standard , but we did n't know anything about it other than that ! |
| 24 | Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height , knuckles upward , elbows at your sides . |
| 25 | She does n't avoid the painful issues that divide us — but , as few writers can , she makes us laugh at them and bring them down to size . |
| 26 | The final humiliation came when Branson and Draper flew out to Munich to see Oldfield perform in concert and bring him up to date on the current situation . |
| 27 | Erm well perhaps before I answer that question Mr Chairman , I could just briefly skim across the programme and bring you up to date as to where we are and then we 'll go directly on to that point . |
| 28 | Now this is where you go to the branch , and the branch management team stand up and bring you up to date with everything that 's happening in the company with product changes , legislation changes , yes , some of it 's boring , but it 's information you 've got to have . |
| 29 | Then shower — ‘ Acqua Fredda ’ , cold spray to tone and give elasticity to the skin and bring you down to earth . |
| 30 | they do n't talk so the language changes all the time , and each time they bring out a new d dictionary they try to say erm this is the way people talk , and bring it up to date so that we 're not all talking in the past . |