Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing . |
| 2 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 3 | Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this |
| 4 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
| 5 | Rescuers have tried unsuccessfully to drive them out into the open sea using a line of boats with their engines running . |
| 6 | If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter . |
| 7 | But then to pass them on to a third party is heinous . ’ |
| 8 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 9 | They are frankly calling their new cheeses by new brand names , making them in different shapes and original packings , selling them on their own merits rather than attempting to pass them off as the great traditional products of an unmechanized and unstandardized age . |
| 10 | General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas , builders of the super-expensive A-12 fighter for the United States Navy , want the Pentagon to bail them out of a possible $2.7 billion overrun on the development and production of A-12s . |
| 11 | And he was still worrying about how to pass himself off as the long-dead Bard when police nicked him dithering outside a bank . |
| 12 | Pinnacle , which currently offers a Sparc 2 CPU board , will leverage its experience in the Sun spares , repair and trade-in hardware business — combined with the SunSoft deal — to launch itself in to the compatible market proper , backed by a hefty advertisement campaign . |
| 13 | It only remained to write everything up in a comprehensive report . |
| 14 | She felt sticky and heavy , as if she was trying to pull herself out of the chlorinated pool with the water dragging at her bulk , breaking the surface tension with an effort . |
| 15 | There were even police standing in the wings ready to cart everybody off to the nearest station should the forbidden line be recited . |
| 16 | Erm I 've not done this before and I wanted to try it out with a small group like yourselves to see how we go on with it . |
| 17 | The district council then had to spend almost £250,000 to bail it out of a financial crisis . |
| 18 | There is no failure because you have to work it through in a new way at forty or fifty . ’ |
| 19 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 20 | If you try that with erm a piece of wood , you try to pull it out into a long thin wire it would just break . |
| 21 | Whatever the truth , it 's the all-mahogany Customs that have escaped the attentions of guitar-fakers , who often take a mid-'50s gold-top , strip the paint off , rout it for PAFs , refinish it sunburst and try to pass it off as a late-'50s Les Paul Standard . |
| 22 | I am always happy to work myself up into a great cultural stew , given half the chance . |
| 23 | Back in Chapter 4 , I mentioned that pull-ups were very useful exercises because they strengthen the muscles needed to pull yourself up over a high wall . |
| 24 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 25 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 26 | However , he has said : ‘ If social services want to keep some kind of data about the additional services which may not immediately be necessary , I do n't think the process is going to open them up to a legal threat . ’ |
| 27 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 28 | There was little enthusiasm , then , as the paper moved towards the alien financial world of the City to set itself up as a public limited company . |
| 29 | ‘ We 'll have to feed you up with a good meal before you go , ’ said Sister Margaret . |
| 30 | Riding on a high she had decided to set herself up as an independent designer . |