Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benedicta , before we go on to meet Simon in the Fleet prison , there are certain enquiries to make . |
| 2 | Relations with Brian Clough hit rock bottom , you might remember , when the manager called the police in to escort Fashanu from the club 's training ground . |
| 3 | First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat . |
| 4 | FitzAlan dismounted and reached up to lift Isabel to the ground . |
| 5 | The Collector had gone up to join Ford on the roof because he wanted to be in a position from which he could give the order to retreat at the right moment ; in his own mind there was no doubt but that he would have to give it sooner or later . |
| 6 | Dexter was glad they had come back to see Lancaster at the end of the day . |
| 7 | That evening a knock — furtive and hasty , telling Alice who it was — brought her out to find Monica on the path near the gate , not outside the door , for the girl had been afraid that Faye might open the door . |
| 8 | Business was brisk , shopkeepers even running out to grab Corbett by the arm and offer a pie , a piece of cloth , fresh fish from the Firth , almonds , nuts and raisins brought in from the nearby port of Leith . |
| 9 | He lowered the horse 's left foreleg and came back to lift Isabel to the ground . |
| 10 | Everyone 's out to beat Gloucester at the moment and do n't the Cherry and Whites know it . |
| 11 | UTV star Gerry Kelly is to compere the event , with the winner going on to represent Ulster in the final of the world famous event , now Europe 's second largest pageant . |
| 12 | Then she vaguely remembered fitzAlan saying something about circling around to approach Winchester from the north in case of pursuit . |
| 13 | ’ He then went on to congratulate Nichols on the job he was doing . |
| 14 | THE traded-options market in London could be about to play Lithuania to the stock exchange 's Russia . |
| 15 | Nigel Cramer came round to see Quinn during the lunch-hour , London time . |