Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 You left the cinema your hand in your pocket clutching a non-existent ‘ rod ’ , you went rat a tat tat Chicago piano machine gun style and did a James Cagney hoodlum staggering along the pavement with your hands to your chest until you collapsed into a doorway mown down by gangsters ' bullets crying for Pat O'Brien or Joan Blondell to take the message to ma .
2 We have so far said little about the way the Stress Syndrome spills over into teachers ' personal relationships out of school .
3 However , they clung on to a victory which served to rekindle hopes among the travelling support that all was not lost after all in the title race , especially after news leaked through of Rangers ' demise at Celtic Park .
4 The circuit performs this function by feeding the output at the Bat position ( pin 9 on IC2 ) to one of the inputs , via diode D13 , of a discrete coincidence gate made up from transistors TR3 and TR4 .
5 There is a special commission which organizes the daily menu , using the prison food stocks , invariably rice and beans , together with additional food brought in by prisoners ' relatives and solidarity groups .
6 He is somewhat surprised to see Dave and Stone from Pearl Jam and Bill from Ministry dressed up as men 's ladies ; female attire and make-up obligatory if you want to play with Lush .
7 This demand for money arises out of consumers ' desires to provide for unexpected , and therefore unplanned , expenditures .
8 The justice meted out in children 's games ( like that on the screen ) may be rough and ready , but it can be argued that ‘ violent play ’ is by no means all negative .
9 Only a pilot project , he insists , will determine whether or not the technology lives up to suppliers ' promises .
10 An awareness of politics grows out of individuals ' perception of the world around them , and earlier in this book some of the main contributing factors to an African perception of the world , notwithstanding Africa 's great diversity , were sketched .
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