Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The district council then had to spend almost £250,000 to bail it out of a financial crisis . |
| 5 | There is no failure because you have to work it through in a new way at forty or fifty . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'll have to feed you up with a good meal before you go , ’ said Sister Margaret . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | set to shoot it out for a good cause |
| 18 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 19 | He took one hand off the controls to sweep it out in a large gesture that took in the whole of the City of London . |
| 20 | There was nothing like a flower to cheer you up on a dark day . |
| 21 | Richard 's voice cut into her thoughts as he took her arm to draw her back from a horse-drawn carriage laden with tourists on a sightseeing trip . |
| 22 | It was at this point that I decided to put her back on a loose creance , so that she could approach the lure from whatever direction she pleased . |
| 23 | If you know you can not deal with an upsetting confrontation , try to put it off for a short while until you feel calmer . |
| 24 | It was in the Fifties , however , that Gerard P. Kuiper said turbulence in various parts of the cloud was likely to make the cloud sufficiently dense to flatten it out into a disc-shaped mass , with a large mass at the centre orbited by smaller ones . |
| 25 | Perhaps she was : she seemed to let it out in a long , gusty sigh , and walked away from the children , down the track to a place where a flat rock jutted out from the side of the bank . |
| 26 | Twenty years ago , when the firm was of negligible size , Mr Fikret Abdić became its director and proceeded to build it up into a giant enterprise . |
| 27 | ‘ Deliberately falsified information … to send us off on a wasteful course of negative research . |
| 28 | And finally , it is the ability to open the arms of memory to welcome them back as a valued part of the whole life experience , with which it is possible to live at peace , without pain , and with a sense of completeness at last ; and when this has been accomplished the bereaved are ready to embrace life again . |
| 29 | their , their supply routes are n't as well defined as ours , but they 've got shear weight of numbers , see , I 'm af , I 'm afraid , I could be a fucking karate black belt or something right , so one on one against you I would n't have a problem , but if you went and got fucking thirty of your mates I would have a problem , I maybe able to hold you off for a fucking few minutes or something or if you could either contact , maybe a few months or years or something , but they will win |
| 30 | Despite great pressure to allow a rescue plan to airlift him back to a natural habitat in cold Arctic waters , the Turkish authorities decided to let Russian experts take charge of him . |