Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only thirty people were allowed in to see me at one time . |
| 2 | The plants are trained up a string which is zig-zagged up and down to train it in one place . |
| 3 | And it shot it went down shot it through this barrel and inside was hydrogen gas and as it went through |
| 4 | Yeah , he only shoved ten pence in to tell me about that giro . |
| 5 | I did not take any of that seriously , though I would have had to be ice all through to hear it with utter in-difference . |
| 6 | Fixing me with a beady eye as soon as I had sat down , she leaned over to damn me with faint praise . |
| 7 | It was a press release following the Chief Environmental Health Officer preempting a report that was being made to the council going to be implemented for the use of the Environmental Protection Act , and goes on to list them in indented form . |
| 8 | He added : ‘ I think it is marvellous he kept on supporting us from inside prison . ’ |
| 9 | Occasionally two or three rooks would straggle up to mob him from some tree or tiny patch of parkland they were trying to protect but he was going strongly and the wind was giving him support and direction . |
| 10 | But you have to put your ass into it — you 've got to end up playing it like another instrument like a guitar or a piano and getting down with it . |
| 11 | When you send a fax , a dialogue box pops up telling you in plain English just what is going on , while an animated fax machine , complete with a document feeding through it , shows you how far things have got . |
| 12 | She kept phoning me up to tell me about Crowded House tickets and that she could n't get any . |
| 13 | It is what children do quite naturally and in many under-developed countries people carry on doing it into old age . |
| 14 | While it may be pleasant to have a young exuberant puppy bounding out to greet you with great enthusiasm , you do not want a large adult dog behaving in a similar fashion , leaping up and bowling people onto the floor . |
| 15 | As I passed the hall in a large comprehensive school , where notices proclaimed ‘ Quiet please : examination in progress ’ , the invigilator , a geography teacher , staggered out to engage me in slurred discussion of educational issues . |
| 16 | Nobody put themselves out to help me in any way at all , but I made it . |
| 17 | Compare this to how the largest fish move relatively slowly , selecting their food with the discrimination of a gourmet ; the subtle approach , the gaping of the cavernous mouth that does not , at times , close over the food but blows it out to rid it of foreign matter . |
| 18 | The trouble is his background keeps coming back to haunt him like last night 's sushi . |
| 19 | Applause rang out , and she twirled around to acknowledge it in demure delight , clapping the barman — and then being crushed against the ample bosom of the barman 's wife . |
| 20 | Y we put it in the garden and I got really cold hands and then was just about to put them into hot water when you said do n't cos you 'll get chilblains |
| 21 | And then , even while she was making valiant efforts to control herself , because for certain he was going to set about strangling her at any moment , after some seconds of looking at her as if staggered , suddenly , and to her amazement , he was seeing the funny side of it also — and he was laughing too ! |
| 22 | " Nenna , I was just about to ring you on that number I called before , from Frankfurt . " |
| 23 | He carried it home and patiently set about restoring it to full health , hand feeding it for days . |
| 24 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |