Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC switches it on for you by remote control smart card technology and training material is sent through the post . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Another chopper should be along for you at any minute , old chap , but why not go and wait in your van until it arrives ? ’ |
| 3 | The teenage snakes tumble , somersault and skid down after him like over-zealous baby ducks in ardent pursuit of a mother figure . |
| 4 | Sit down with me on this bench , Jane . |
| 5 | Now he was back in his hovel and naked , lying next to a girl who was having a baby and had moved in with him on that account . |
| 6 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 7 | A chain came down from them to another set of wheels and cogs nearer the bottom . |
| 8 | looks down on me from blackest space : |
| 9 | But Rohmer had to know the answer to the questions that had fascinated and intrigued him for so long ; the questions that bore down on him with ever-increasing force during the drug-induced hallucinatory periods that were now so frequent in his life . |
| 10 | But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series . |
| 11 | But motorists on the M4 the other day who glanced in their mirrors would have seen him bearing down on them at great speed in his newly acquired 1968 Bentley T-series . |
| 12 | They travelled all that day without a break , and for most of the time the sun beat down on them with fiery intensity . |
| 13 | ‘ The full weight of the Children 's Department came down on us for that scene and , in retrospect , I realised I had made a mistake letting that go through . |
| 14 | Next Wed 's possible visit to London — there 'll probably be a train strike that day , so maybe we should think of alternative ways of getting whatever it is you want me to bring down to you on another day ? |
| 15 | Tirpitz lies at the bottom of the local fjord , and every year the local diving club goes down to it on New Year 's Day to retrieve a handful of bits guaranteed to fuel the old fires for another year . |
| 16 | And of the three of us who knew there was to be a young man on his way down to us by that path during the evening , how many have already made the leap forward to give this nameless victim a name , and begin to see certain reasons why it might be expedient for some if he never reached us ? |
| 17 | The structure of Liberal argument , both at the time and as it has come down to us in modern land law texts , is thus built upon two suppositions . |
| 18 | By using such evidence the historian can come to terms with some of the everyday reality of the war , and how it touched the lives and outlook of men and women , famous and not so famous , rich and poor , whose experiences are described in the proceedings of civil and criminal cases which have come down to us in some number . |
| 19 | I mean I 'll bung them in to you at some point |
| 20 | Simply fill in the visit request form at the back of the prospectus and send it in to us in good time . |
| 21 | Trapped against the hard edge of the wooden shelving by the taut pressure of his muscled thighs , the folly of her panicked action was borne in on her with devastating precision . |
| 22 | The clinging nature of her garments was borne in on her with horrifying clarity as her startled gaze caught the back end of his grin . |
| 23 | No , this was a shark , a deadly , multi-toothed shark , and he was homing in on her with lethal precision . |
| 24 | It might be too much of a shock if we burst in on them without any warning . ’ |
| 25 | They stopped shouting at each other , expecting the Headmaster to burst in on them at any moment . |
| 26 | He clung to her like a clammy spider , pulling her down beside him with unexpected strength . |
| 27 | She shrugged his hand away and glared up at him , her pale face a trifle flushed , and he looked down at her with sardonic interest . |
| 28 | He smiled down at her with warm approval . |
| 29 | Dyson stood by the stove , gazing down at her with serious ferocity . |
| 30 | But he just raised his eyebrows , looking down at her with mocking disdain . |