Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or drops her off at the beach house . ’ |
| 2 | The noise is formidable , for the rocks clatter and bang away down a steel chute that dumps them back on the ground . |
| 3 | So that covers you up till the Monday |
| 4 | erm Sorry , I think we 'll just stick with Faulkner for a moment , because I think that leads us on to the constant tragedies of battle casualties , which were obviously very much brought in into Oxford whenever people were wounded outside they were often brought in to Oxford to be cared for , there was a hospital out of Yarnton too , but a great many were cared for all over Oxford , and the greatest of course were buried at Christchurch . |
| 5 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 6 | It is that conditioning in the cask that marks it out from the rest of the world 's beers . |
| 7 | A scheme that keeps you out of the unemployment statistics and in your place ? |
| 8 | And it was suggested by the er two officers that were present , that that could , that money that 's already there , could in fact get a third of the scheme done , the third which was the bisecting little path , the main trees across the front , and the bit of the paving that takes you over to the North Road . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't bite the hand that pulls you out of the shit . ’ |
| 10 | Is there a masochistic streak in all woodturners that sends them back to the pole lathe ? |
| 11 | She was dressed in one of the outfits , and I thought well that suits you down to the ground ! |
| 12 | Well that brings us back to the idea that he may be a man of style , rather than substance , in terms of differentiating himself from Mrs Thatcher . |
| 13 | He grips my arms and dumps me back on the pew . |
| 14 | Epsilon consists of an extremely luminous supergiant , perhaps over 100000 times as powerful as the Sun , together with a mysterious companion which has never been seen , and is known only because it periodically passes in front of the supergiant and dims it by about a magnitude . |
| 15 | After a while he opens his case , takes out a glass vial and holds it up to the light . |
| 16 | A teenage girl gets on the bus , then , as if she 's just remembered , takes out a comic story magazine and holds it out of the window . |
| 17 | ‘ He seems to hold David Howell , who 's still owed three weeks ' money , particularly responsible and wants him out of the club . |
| 18 | This vaporizes a droplet of ink and forces it out of the nozzle in the printhead and onto the paper . |
| 19 | Before waiting for an answer she takes me by the hand and leads me on to the dance floor . |
| 20 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |
| 21 | Darius grabs a wedge , ices it with half an inch of butter , crams it in his mouth and washes it down with a can of Coke . |
| 22 | The attempt to answer this question leads us into a hitherto little-explored region of English grammar since it poses the problem of the relation between the infinitive and the category of person , and takes us back to a use not yet analysed satisfactorily , the so-called " infinitive of reaction " . |
| 23 | There is something free , reckless , vaguely counter-cultural about it ; it ignores the voice of prudence and takes us back to the days of our youth when we defied authority by taking it up . |
| 24 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 25 | It makes a change and gets you out of the house . ’ |
| 26 | A rotating mechanism traps the hair and plucks it out by the root . |
| 27 | Leasing is a system whereby a financial institution purchases a piece of equipment and leases it back to the company , which then has the use of equipment it has not had to purchase . |
| 28 | Ormanroyd and he 's got round Laws and pulls it back into the danger area but the cross defended well . |
| 29 | The computer recognises some of the words and phrases which the child types in and reflects them back at the child as open-ended questions that encourage the child to reply . |
| 30 | If you leave the vehicle , the heat from the engine soaks into the carb and thaws it out for a few more miles . |