Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | They vied with each other to fill me in on the gruesome details . |
| 5 | I wanted her to fill me in on the blank spots , and I wanted to hear it from her , not anybody else . |
| 6 | There was nothing like a flower to cheer you up on a dark day . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Deliberately falsified information … to send us off on a wasteful course of negative research . |
| 11 | There were no relatives to travel with her to the grave , only strangers to see her off on the darkest of journeys . |
| 12 | But I do n't think it 's fair to take it out on the next person . |
| 13 | They agreed to phase them out on the same timetable applying in their own countries , and faster than required by the Montreal Protocol ( the international agreement on protecting the ozone layer — see ED 52 ] . |