Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gate admits to a path , presumably made as a droveway for bringing sheep down from the fell ; this spirals up to the ridge where a turn to the right leads to the summit cairn . |
| 2 | Still on the gardening scene , I 've used these for years in place of plant pots for bringing seeds on in the greenhouse . |
| 3 | But by and large rugby has much to be proud of as a vehicle for bringing nations together in a sporting brotherhood when political barriers threaten to keep them apart . |
| 4 | If there are good arguments for using video regularly as a carrier of lectures — sometimes the case in a programme which is repeated in several centres — then there may be equally good arguments for planning and recording them as video programmes . |
| 5 | Watercolour paper is very difficult for using crayons on as the ‘ pits ’ in the paper interrupt the crayon colour . |
| 6 | Another organisation , ‘ Rock Against Terror ’ emerged from a nighttime incident in which musicians from two groups in Moscow were roughly treated by the police for singing songs loudly in the streets . |
| 7 | A metal hook at the top end of the handle is used for recovering line from a hole and is also useful for drawing rabbits out of a hole at a distance beyond the length of a man 's arm . |
| 8 | ‘ He said it had hardly ever been used intentionally to murder people in Europe , though it 's being used all the time out East for helping relatives on to the next world . |
| 9 | Managers get the blame EDUCATION managers in County Durham were blamed yesterday for keeping money away from the schools which need it most . |
| 10 | What thanks is this for keeping vigil outside in the street nearly all night ? |
| 11 | Once you 've done that , you can then start taking really strong action about keeping traffic out of the City , because you 've got the alternative . |
| 12 | I think this is not just a problem in Kent , I think that there has been a erm an undue er move in this direction nationally , er for what ever reasons public policy was very much about keeping people out of the courts , er I suspect that this is er er a policy which is of doubtful philosophical underpinning . |
| 13 | There are profound differences , obviously , between blasting birds out of the sky with a shotgun , sitting quietly on a riverbank waiting for the fish to bit , chasing foxes or stags over open country on horseback or sending dogs down a hole to dismember badgers . |
| 14 | The rugged David McIvor — at No8 on the Scottish scrum feed but on the flank on France 's — was the one man who showed any real propensity for knocking men back in the tackle . |
| 15 | Indeed , Lindsell regards this as virtually a twelfth business — and one which has also returned to profit after losing money heavily in the past few years . |
| 16 | The Home Secretary is in my opinion entitled and bound to reach his own tariff decision , after having regard both to the judges ' tariff and to the factors such as public confidence in the administration of justice which Lord Scarman mentioned . |
| 17 | After rescuing McAllister just over a fortnight ago , he had told himself firmly , This must stop ! and himself had refused to listen . |
| 18 | Rutland Water , one of the country 's largest reservoirs , where sheep and dogs died after drinking water close to the blue-green algae , is a classic case . |
| 19 | Now Parlour will get the chance to stake his claim after putting Arsenal back on the rails after their bad start to the season by making both goals in the 2-0 win at Liverpool on Sunday . |
| 20 | A BOY cheated death after falling 20ft on to an electrified high-speed railway line . |
| 21 | After throwing things around in a very haphazard fashion she finally abandoned her search . |
| 22 | After settling Harry down with a cup of tea , she led Joe into her office and sat him down . |
| 23 | Nigel dared to disagree with her — he had hated his own school and he thought he divined Gina 's reason for wanting Anthony out of the way . |
| 24 | Pansy 's chemistry lessons are mainly a question of lobbing stuff out of the cupboard into a crucible and trying to get an explosion going . |
| 25 | Marco made an elaborate performance of helping Tabitha out of the net . |
| 26 | If she were really honest , she did n't want to run the risk of seeing Niall again for a while , not socially at any rate . |
| 27 | ( 6.8 ) ; A complete velocity profile for the acceleration can be built-up by repeating this process for a range of stepping rates up to the pull-out rate fm . |
| 28 | One of the problems with the MacSharry proposals is that , instead of bringing agriculture closer to the market , they will perpetuate existing excessive levels of support for the majority of farmers . |
| 29 | They 're bringing it in or something or thinking of bringing actions forward into the or whatever . |
| 30 | If they are to get full influence for the purpose of bringing constituencies up to the mark , they can only get it by being the channels for help . |