Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this |
| 3 | Rescuers have tried unsuccessfully to drive them out into the open sea using a line of boats with their engines running . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 8 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 9 | At that point we could still take water from the aquifer , but we would have to pump it out in the same way as we would from an unconfined aquifer . |
| 10 | Nowhere near enough , they 're trying to get us to sell it off by the back door and we will resist that . |
| 11 | It 's very good good erm good thing for the party and they 're usually quite starved of practical campaigning ideas and so we regularly try every at least every year to go and do a tour and erm we 've been giving them we we 're trying to rope them in on the various activities because they 're crying out for |
| 12 | It would be best to grow them on in the smaller tank as they are likely to be attacked , if not eaten , by the larger fish . |
| 13 | They might fear you , hate you , and try to exorcise you back into the fifth dimension , but they accept you for what you are . |
| 14 | He was trying to win her back from the greedy black hole — to release her from its iron grip and return her to the safety of the study . |
| 15 | Someone had laid out knee-high duckboards to cross the snow , and Lucenzo shot out an imperious hand to help her on to the low platform . |
| 16 | Eager for the haven of her hotel room , Luce allowed Michele to help her on to the deserted fondamenta . |
| 17 | When he had dumped their two canvas bags on the ground , he reached up again to help her down from the high train . |
| 18 | A little extra pressure and I would be able to fish it out with the hypodermic needle I had poised ready . |
| 19 | It 's back in its box now , but it 's still pretty big — so I have to stick it in with the dirty washing . |
| 20 | They vied with each other to fill me in on the gruesome details . |
| 21 | I wanted her to fill me in on the blank spots , and I wanted to hear it from her , not anybody else . |
| 22 | Dressing apraxia refers to difficulty in putting on clothes ; the patient may manipulate them haphazardly , unable to relate them spatially to his own body , or he may be unable to put them on in the correct sequence . |
| 23 | So even University was n't completely on one side , and again the City was erm there was this sort of Puritan element that did n't like the King 's religious policies , erm there was this general feeling against the University which tended to put them off to the other side , but there are undoubtedly loyal citizens erm citizens loyal to the King . |
| 24 | I I think the best thing to do with the flutes is to put them along with the first |
| 25 | If he improves over the next 3–4 years and lasts until he 's 30 , then you will have to put him up alongside the other 2 . |
| 26 | I offered , once again , to put him up in the spare room for the night , but , once again , he would n't hear of it . |
| 27 | Her mind worried the problem of where would he find lodgings , how could she summon the strength to put him out of the only refuge he had ? |
| 28 | But Travis had been marvellously patient for months and months now — could n't she find a way to put him out of the private hell he was in ? |
| 29 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 30 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |