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 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 7 | Nowhere near enough , they 're trying to get us to sell it off by the back door and we will resist that . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Eager for the haven of her hotel room , Luce allowed Michele to help her on to the deserted fondamenta . |
| 12 | When he had dumped their two canvas bags on the ground , he reached up again to help her down from the high train . |
| 13 | A little extra pressure and I would be able to fish it out with the hypodermic needle I had poised ready . |
| 14 | It 's back in its box now , but it 's still pretty big — so I have to stick it in with the dirty washing . |
| 15 | They vied with each other to fill me in on the gruesome details . |
| 16 | I wanted her to fill me in on the blank spots , and I wanted to hear it from her , not anybody else . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | On second thoughts I think it best to put it back in the old oak chest . |
| 24 | Her mother handed her a glass of white wine , so generously filled that Kate was obliged to take a long sip before it was safe to put it down on the small table by the side of the chair . |
| 25 | Ah well sure but then the whole lot goes , but , but , but , but , but this was , this was the document , I mean the way this was put forward , this is going to last us through into the foreseeable future . |
| 26 | It has been decided to play the tape in an attempt to entice them out of the enclosed channel . |
| 27 | I am going to send you back to the Dark Realm of that other Ireland , and we will seal up the Gateways so that you and your creatures and your Lords of Evil will never be a threat to us again . |
| 28 | Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin . |
| 29 | The Goblins wait until the enemy are close by , and then push the Fanatic out towards the foe , giving him a good shove to start him off in the right direction . |
| 30 | Although the DIA clearly had plans for him , it was evidently in no hurry to send him back to the Middle East . |