Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [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 | At a fair distance , and without being able to see them clearly in the encroaching dusk , they seemed a friendly lot and we yelled back . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this |
| 5 | Soil pipes from downstairs WCs may be connected to the main soil stack of a single-stack system , but it is often better to connect them directly to the underground drains . |
| 6 | Rescuers have tried unsuccessfully to drive them out into the open sea using a line of boats with their engines running . |
| 7 | If their shells are near the Julies , then it might be politic to shuffle them gradually to the other end . |
| 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 | At a PEN Canada benefit event in Toronto last month , Salman Rushdie was cordially embraced by the Ontario Premier Bob Rae , the first government leader to meet him publicly since the Iranian fatwa . |
| 12 | When the revolt collapsed and Judith was released , Charles rode out with his uncle Drogo bishop of Metz to escort her home to a ceremonial reception at Aachen in February 831 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In three respects at least D. H. Lawrence 's attitude to homosexuality was typical : first , he seems to have been able to accept it only in an idealized and spiritual form ; as Paul Delany puts it , he wanted not a lover but a spiritual brother . |
| 15 | The district council then had to spend almost £250,000 to bail it out of a financial crisis . |
| 16 | There is no failure because you have to work it through in a new way at forty or fifty . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Lancaster slipped off his spectacles and began to clean them meticulously with a white handkerchief , scouring the rims with his fingernails . |
| 19 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 23 | ‘ We 'll have to feed you up with a good meal before you go , ’ said Sister Margaret . |
| 24 | His petty-bourgeois family background , his status as an intellectual conversant with the rites of bourgeois education , values and culture , his sophisticated literary and critical talents as a writer , all conspired to set him apart from the communist party leadership and rank and file members alike . |
| 25 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 26 | It sets out , by example as well as by direct command , the differences between right and wrong , so that the man who measures his conduct by Bible standards gains from it both " reproof " when he is in the wrong and " correction " to set him back on a right course . |
| 27 | His head bent towards her and once again Jenna lifted her hands to ward him off in a panic-stricken way , but her fingers felt useless . |
| 28 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
| 29 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 30 | Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution . |