Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] with [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lancaster slipped off his spectacles and began to clean them meticulously with a white handkerchief , scouring the rims with his fingernails . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'll have to feed you up with a good meal before you go , ’ said Sister Margaret . |
| 5 | They had both been attending a seminar on judicial sentencing at a northern university , Berowne to open it formally with a brief speech , Dalgliesh to represent the police interest ; and they had travelled by rail in the same first class compartment . |
| 6 | Only you can answer this and you might need to talk it over with a close friend if you want to get to the heart of your feelings on the matter . |
| 7 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 8 | A little extra pressure and I would be able to fish it out with the hypodermic needle I had poised ready . |
| 9 | It 's back in its box now , but it 's still pretty big — so I have to stick it in with the dirty washing . |
| 10 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 11 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 12 | So Lord Campbell of Alloway is trying to go it alone with a private member 's bill in the House of Lords . |
| 13 | She was still trying to get him off with a nice society type . |
| 14 | When James did succeed to the throne in 1685 , the pro-Catholic and pro-French orientation of foreign policy was naturally maintained , and the new king made strenuous efforts both to return England to the papal fold and to realign her fully with the international Catholic axis . |
| 15 | There seems to be some poetry rattling about in there , rather as air rattles about in the bowels , but to get it out with a proper report — that 's the trick ! |
| 16 | ‘ I wo n't agree to a divorce , ’ he warned , and moved closer , as if trying to intimidate her physically with the powerful bulk of his body . |