Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] ' " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | This demand for money arises out of consumers ' desires to provide for unexpected , and therefore unplanned , expenditures . |
| 6 | Only a pilot project , he insists , will determine whether or not the technology lives up to suppliers ' promises . |
| 7 | 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 . |