Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this |
| 4 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
| 5 | Rescuers have tried unsuccessfully to drive them out into the open sea using a line of boats with their engines running . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But then to pass them on to a third party is heinous . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | The district council then had to spend almost £250,000 to bail it out of a financial crisis . |
| 13 | There is no failure because you have to work it through in a new way at forty or fifty . ’ |
| 14 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Whatever the truth , it 's the all-mahogany Customs that have escaped the attentions of guitar-fakers , who often take a mid-'50s gold-top , strip the paint off , rout it for PAFs , refinish it sunburst and try to pass it off as a late-'50s Les Paul Standard . |
| 17 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 21 | ‘ We 'll have to feed you up with a good meal before you go , ’ said Sister Margaret . |
| 22 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
| 26 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |