Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [vb base] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Dear mermaids , wo n't you please turn the wheel and spin me down to the sea-king 's palace ? " |
| 2 | Cornelius retrieved both letter and card and set them down before him . |
| 3 | Tie a cord to each bottom ring and thread it up through the rings on each tape . |
| 4 | Simply waggle the club and set it down in your normal address position . |
| 5 | Erm well perhaps before I answer that question Mr Chairman , I could just briefly skim across the programme and bring you up to date as to where we are and then we 'll go directly on to that point . |
| 6 | Pete lifted his knight but changed his mind and put it back on the board . |
| 7 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 8 | He had to walk about three miles to collect the mail and carry it back to the village , for which a charge of sixpence per missive was made . |
| 9 | And instinctively she reached out her arms as if to circle his neck and draw him down into an imaginary embrace . |
| 10 | The mountain shook for several long seconds , after which time they were delighted to see the Doctor hurtle out of the cave mouth and hurl himself down towards them . |
| 11 | Should one of the fry slip from the nest the male will catch it in his mouth and spit it back into the nest . |
| 12 | I have never seen a player catch a football in his mouth and spit it back to his keeper before . |
| 13 | If she let it , the food would jump into her mouth and swell her up to grossness . |
| 14 | That 's fine , now all we 've got to do is to tidy up this end of the halyard and tuck it out of the way . |
| 15 | Alternatively , use standard furnishing fabric and match it up to other furnishings in the room . |
| 16 | " Besides all this Tristan learned to ride nimbly with shield and lance , to spur his mount skilfully on either flank , put it to the gallop with dash , wheel and give it free rein and urge it on with his knees , in strict accordance with the chivalric art . |
| 17 | Insert needle again in the lower stitch and bring it out in the next stitch to the left ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 18 | Take the second stitch and place it on to the first needle . |
| 19 | Take the third stitch and place it on to the next left-hand side empty needle and so on all along the row . |
| 20 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 21 | Or some of them they cut the whole floor out and weld a new take the floor old car and weld it back in again . |
| 22 | I 'll get my car and run you back to your hotel . |
| 23 | She bowed in her turn to an irresistible force and let us in with raised eyebrows and an air of power suspended , not abdicated . |
| 24 | Thirdly , and most important of all in the genesis of Doctor Who , are the people who inspired it — the few who drew the notion of Doctor Who from the seeds of human inventiveness and put them down on paper . |
| 25 | To indicate the causal relation between two notions , a compound was formed in such a way as to suggest that it is natural to begin with the effect and trace it back to its cause . |
| 26 | In fact it has been so hot and humid today that I have had to get an electric fan and put it on in my room . |
| 27 | The Firefly , owned by Jim Connell , of Gatley Drive , Maghull , near Liverpool , had almost sunk when rescuers managed to haul it on to a slipway and take it back to Douglas . |
| 28 | I put my hand in the water trickling down the rock and put it on to Zoe . |
| 29 | Often clients think they know best and have the trade publication editor to lunch or ring him up with titbits and gossip . |
| 30 | By 1755 serious friction had developed between England and France over their respective Far Eastern and North American colonies , and it was rapidly learned in London that the French had , though reluctantly , decided that only a major invasion of England itself could force the English to keep ships at home or bring them back from overseas . |