Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] [pron] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if I were Ben Hogan , and a Bob Hamilton or Willie Goggin chipped in to beat me in The Masters , a Walter Burkemo holed a sand shot to swipe the PGA , a raw rookie — pick one — holed a 7-iron to beat me somewhere in Florida and then the like of a Bud Holscher or a Shelley Mayfield holed yet another sand shot to steal yet another victory , then I 'd not only be scouring the Fort Worth Yellow Pages looking for the nearest shrink , I might even think of tossing myself under a freight train in the nearest marshalling yard . |
| 2 | When you came over to see us in the field , Cowslip , you said your warren was n't large , but judging by the holes we saw along the bank , it must be what we 'd reckon a fine , big one . " |
| 3 | We came over to see you in the Glory . |
| 4 | He liked some music but generally was n't musical and was always slightly put off to find himself in the company of those who were . |
| 5 | Oh no , I was wrestling it off to wash it in the end . |
| 6 | When he stood up to greet her in the lobby of the hotel , her heart contracted a little with love . |
| 7 | I nearly lost my life again , when a lady picked me up to put me in the boat . |
| 8 | She could n't look out to see them in the yard . |
| 9 | Girls who could n't get themselves a husband in this country were sent out to find one in the colonies and it seldom failed . ’ |
| 10 | Some of them came to Kufra , and a deputation of Zuwaya went out to meet them in the desert , inviting them to turn back . |
| 11 | The other day when we had a very hot day , it was quite a hot day and over mid day I went out to do something in the garden there and her milk was still on the step and it was in the sun . |
| 12 | ‘ What I strongly suspect — ’ Roman had strolled back to join her in the cockpit , stretching long , hair-coarsened dark legs unnervingly close to her own slender golden thighs ‘ — is that Mathilde embroidered the local myths to suit herself ! |
| 13 | SUEDE 's past has come back to haunt them in the form of a former business associate with whom they had dealings before signing to the Nude label . |
| 14 | So in a flash of generosity an extra prize will be my personal assurance that Elvira will not be coming around to kick you in the groin in the immediate future . |
| 15 | There they gathered , the employee who lacks employment , the faithless priest , the investor about to hang himself in the expectation of plenty , the physician who will not be able to heal herself , the director who lacks all direction , the historian who denies the existence of history , the Jewish scholar of early Renaissance Christian iconography , the deaf man who hears voices , the woman about to be taken in adultery . |
| 16 | And then , horizontally down the spine , so that he had to turn it round to read it in the light of a street lamp . |
| 17 | The actress swivelled round to face her in the doorway . |