Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [coord] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involves changing the verb altogether and replacing it with one that has a similar meaning but can be used in a different syntactic configuration . |
| 2 | Lucinda jumped to her feet , collecting cups , plates and cutlery together and placing them on the tray . |
| 3 | The battles of Penselwood and Sherston were apparently inconclusive , although hard-fought in the case of the latter , but Edmund was able to relieve London , driving the enemy away and defeating them after crossing the Thames at Brentford . |
| 4 | He pushed his horse nearer and grasped me by the arm , his long dark face , usually solemn , wreathed in smiles . |
| 5 | He contacted the South Africans who had been told they could n't meet a council delegation independently and invited them to a meeting in Darlington town hall . |
| 6 | Go round the again car again and throw them to the kids . |
| 7 | Holly had filled the plastic bag with oil and twisted the neck tight and fastened it with a snip of wire . |
| 8 | ‘ But we do have to take this condition seriously and get it under control . ’ |
| 9 | The Prime Minister will brandish his meaningless majority after the Division tonight and claim it as a mandate for Maastricht . |
| 10 | He seized a brick desperately and threw it at Yussuf . |
| 11 | go in a hall somewhere and have it for a day . |
| 12 | As a sign of this substitution the ancient totem meal was revived in the form of communion , in which the company of brothers consumed the flesh and blood of the son — no longer the father — obtained sanctity thereby and identified themselves with him . |
| 13 | She lifted out the illuminated psalter within and handed it to him . |
| 14 | She ushered the girl inside and sent her to the bathroom . |
| 15 | She took his beaker away and placed it on the balcony wall . |
| 16 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'll have the police here at any moment , ready to take the boy away and throw him into prison ! ’ |
| 18 | It is hoped that readers will feel able to draw on the ideas presented to develop the work further and to apply it to a wider range of contexts . |
| 19 | She closed her sketch-book quickly and slipped it behind her chair . |
| 20 | I made sweet and sour chicken yesterday and put it in the freezer . |
| 21 | Crilly grabs my waist roughly and pulls me towards him . |
| 22 | I 'm going ask you to do an exercise now and split you into groups of three . |
| 23 | We need to ensure people receive proper help and counselling , both to deal with abuse now and to prevent it in the future , ’ said Chris Cullen , who holds the SSMH chair in learning difficulties at St Andrews University . |
| 24 | I telephoned him at home immediately and told him about the fatigue failure , adding my recommendation that he should order the examination of all UK registered Boeing 707/300 stabilisers for signs of similar failure at the earliest opportunity . |
| 25 | Come , I 'll spell it out for you — one thing only you were born for , and that 's to live fourteen years and then bring Undry here and hang it from these chains . |
| 26 | The Cabinet approved the plan unanimously and placed it before the Knesset where it was attacked by Labour , who claimed that it would increase the financial burden for the middle and lower classes , boost inflation and fail to promote the absorbtion of immigrants . |
| 27 | Then Harriet turned , carried the little girl upstairs and put her to bed . |
| 28 | The rest of you , help to carry the boy upstairs and put him to bed . |
| 29 | She commanded Rune 's gaze briefly and dismissed it with disdain . |
| 30 | Do not attempt to break up the tablet instead and powder it over the food at the next meal . |