Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After spending more of the taxpayers ' funds to make the King Edmondo seaworthy , and to rig her out with state-of-the-art marine communications equipment , Coleman handed the boat over in late March to Hurley , who renamed her Skunk Kilo . |
| 2 | Well , Mansell who run , won yesterday 's Portugese Grand Prix is believed to be considering several offers to tempt him out of that so-called retirement . |
| 3 | Yet this epidemic of self-inflicted slaughter seems to pass us by with little front page news in the national Press . |
| 4 | The worrying thing for other World Cup teams next summer is that , if and when Maradona recovers his best form — and he will most likely do so in June — then the rest of the Argentina side looks ready to set him up for another stupendous tournament . |
| 5 | Even if they do , they tend to cordon it off from other feminist issues . |
| 6 | ‘ Goddess of poetry , healing and smithcraft , if she takes you that way ; and if not , enough saints of the name to see you out of any small predicament . |
| 7 | And yet , within the artificial world that the laboratory enables one to create , we can and must isolate the variables , and , if we are clever and lucky enough , we can discover how to fit them back into some meaningful real-life pattern . |
| 8 | He had laid by his sword , but he had a dagger still upon him , and managed to draw it and slash through the folds that smothered him ; and Norbury and Erpyngham and half a dozen others of his own people came plunging and splashing through the storm to help him out of these ominous grave-clothes . |
| 9 | Disappointingly strawberries do not freeze so if you do not eat them at once you need to use them up in some other way . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's very kind of you to put me up at such short notice , but I really would n't dream of imposing . |
| 11 | He moved incredibly slowly , zombie-ish , as if he 'd been a patient in there since before the flood and they 'd finally decided to let him out for some fresh air . |
| 12 | I 'm ashamed to put it down in these halting words . |
| 13 | They 're also the sort of chaps who 've spent the past dickhead-infested decade defining their own crotch-sweating sTyLe and they ai n't about to give it up for any passing sausage-munching , garlic-gnashing , cake-shovelling Eurocats or Europrats — 1992 or no 1992 . |
| 14 | He 's got a bad knee and without the union to keep him out of hard physical work he 's stuck really — he 's got no qualifications or anything . ’ |
| 15 | The Arrow Impossibility Theorem suggests that it may be futile to attempt to build it up from reasonable democratic assumptions ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 16 | In future , she would not go looking for love , or trying to manufacture it out of other lesser emotions , but she still believed it would find her one day . |
| 17 | Farther south , in Fiordland , it is possible to fly yourself in to that spectacular airfield I already mentioned , at Milford Haven , but to fly in as pilot in command you must first be cleared by an instructor . |
| 18 | Where training is provided by humanities computing or computing science departments , there are pressures to dress it up in formal scientific terms so as to legitimize it in the eyes of the surrounding scientific community . |
| 19 | Well there were running boards , they were , they were written out , well eventually , we were typed out but they were written out and first of all it was really funny we used to size them on to these wooden boards , let that dry , then varnish them and that board was used day in day out . |
| 20 | the guy in the car park when he forgot to ring him back about some important business . |
| 21 | And even if the Prince of Gwynedd should send an army to set him free , how were they to get him out of that impregnable hold ? |
| 22 | They were , however , able successfully to fob him off with various working parties , with joint industry — civil service membership , to look at detailed questions such as the principles of pricing and the possibility of load limiters . |
| 23 | Surely , to get her out of that tedious place — if only for a time — must be a better answer . |
| 24 | The first I knew of this was when , seeing his bollard shape through the wrought-iron railings , my old humiliator Holland turned to me and said , placing predictably his malicious emphasis , ‘ There 's your ‘ guardian ’ , Wharton , come to take you off for some wanky-wanky , as usual . ’ |
| 25 | So much good did it do them to take him up to that heathen place in Naas . |
| 26 | He was quick , she noticed , to take her up on any casual remark and supposed that his interest in other people 's affairs and their reactions had something to do with the novelist in him . |
| 27 | He pointed to the university 's successful three-year programme to steer it out of serious financial problems without compulsory redundancies . |
| 28 | To take us up on this unusual opportunity , simply call us , toll free , at the number shown , or mail the reservation application below . |
| 29 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 30 | Well Mark you 'll have to make it up to some other time . |