Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN McConnochie and Arthur Stephenson were both satisfied with the outcome of the Edward Hanmer Memorial Chase after their horses fought out a thrilling finish in the three mile handicap at Haydock yesterday . |
| 2 | I radioed one of my men to bring along an extra trailer and I told him to tip it up when he brought it into the field to make sure it was clean |
| 3 | PUBLICANS are campaigning on behalf of their customers to keep down the price of the pint in the Republic . |
| 4 | In spite of complaints by leaders of trade unions many of their members bought up the shares . |
| 5 | Once few dared the wrath of Caledor , for their Dragonriders could ravage a foe 's armies and lands in hours , the great leathery wings of their mounts blotting out the sky with their numbers . |
| 6 | He said that Lubavitch offered counselling for parents distressed by the prospect of their children throwing up a lucrative career for a life of prayer . |
| 7 | They then commandeered a battery operated amplifier and two loudspeakers from the local constituency association , and via the roof of one of their cars set up an excellent PA system . |
| 8 | I like it when when wh it floods in town and you can go down and watch foreigners standing looking at the roofs of their cars floating down the Ouse and you think Yeah ! . |
| 9 | Alison Kelly worked with some of her students to carry out a minor evaluation of changes in GIST teachers ' attitudes in comparison with a national sample ( Kelly et al . , |
| 10 | She crossed the room and with a resolute shrug of her shoulders picked up the receiver . |
| 11 | Willie Crosbie , who has been at Castlebrae High School for 15 years , was presented with the Woman magazine award yesterday , in recognition of his efforts to turn around the school 's unenviable reputation . |
| 12 | At the sound of his footsteps approaching down the hall , she rose to her feet and hurried out to meet him . |
| 13 | Neither did he hear Zach repeatedly calling him from outside or the sound of his footsteps running up the tiny pathway to the back door . |
| 14 | The philosopher Francis Bacon and many of his contemporaries summed up the scientific attitude of the times when they insisted that if we want to understand nature we must consult nature and not the writings of Aristotle . |
| 15 | The man 's hair mass rocks back and forth on his rigidly stationary head like a wildly excited toupee and is only matched for unusual activity by his furiously trembling eyebrows and the cracked black toe-caps of his shoes moving up an down like wasps ' abdomens about to insert their stings . |
| 16 | As you know , Derek Jefferson is one of the sponsors of this week 's tournament and one of his ploys to drum up a bit more publicity is to arrange a tour of his factory . |
| 17 | Specifically , several of his pictures hung on the walls , and one stood on an easel in the centre of the living-room . |
| 18 | One of his men looked out the window . |
| 19 | ‘ And if he did n't do that , he 'd get one of his men to ring round every hotel in England . |
| 20 | Based upon the outcome of your discussions draw up a worksheet and enter the above transactions . |
| 21 | That 's why so many of our sons went down the mine — to stop the family becoming homeless . |
| 22 | However , the repetitive nature of this type of credit is in itself a barrier against its users weighing up the advantages of credit which does not involve weekly collection — and perhaps against them considering cash as an alternative . |
| 23 | Dent , with its narrow cobbled main street and its white buildings , could almost be taken for a Westmorland village , whereas West Burton , by-passed by the Bishopdale road and standing with its houses clustered round a broad wedge of a village green with cross , stocks and children 's swings , is very much a village of the eastern Dales . |
| 24 | There is nothing uglier than a redundant ski-tow out of season , with its pylons marching up a scarred , broken hillside . |
| 25 | Let us begin with his efforts to clear up the confusion of questions 2 and 3 . |
| 26 | As we proceeded we kept our eyes skinned and whenever we came to a thicket or undergrowth we beat it with our sticks to stir up the prey . |
| 27 | Once it happens we we , our credibility with our customers goes out the window does n't it ? |
| 28 | Finish the entire face , neck and scalp sequence by holding your palms lightly against your partner 's forehead with your fingers extending down the temples , as in Fig 11 . |
| 29 | ( 1 ) Stand with your feet about shoulder-width apart and grip the club above your head with your thumbs extended down the club shaft and your palms facing upwards . |
| 30 | Thus David Reynolds and Christopher Thorne have resorted to such phrases as " competitive co-operation " or " allies of a kind " in their attempts to sum up the famous wartime partnership . |