Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It has produced an overwhelming and fairly cultish New York knowledge of up and coming British bands .
2 heavy horse , a land horse such as a Suffolk , as most of them were , erm but times were so tight that there was a farmer who used to send his horse with his horseman right past here and go another mile down the road to , to the next village to Kettleborough where there was ano , there were two farriers there
3 Go ahead , beaver away , and while you 're negotiating give a thought to my business that will crumble if I don ’ get out of here and do some negotiating of my own . ’
4 His aims were ‘ to prevent mental illusions due to false ideas from within and to prevent false teaching from other fellows ’ .
5 Ulrich Steinhilper 's trilogy , Spitfire on my Tail , Ten Minutes to Buffalo and Full Circle have been reviewed in these pages before now and make stunning reading of the life and times of a Luftwaffe fighter pilot through his experiences as a prisoner of war .
6 Leeds , Liverpool and Sheffield Wednesday failed to come from behind and overturn first-leg deficits .
7 Better still , why not simply fly to Athens from here and charter another boat from the Kalamaki marina ? ’
8 Banking sources said in June that credit needs were expected to expand dramatically even though Romania was owed some $3,000,000 million from abroad and had hard currency reserves of $900,000,000 million .
9 you go in there and wait twenty minutes .
10 I went in there and bought some chewing gum when I went down to see it
11 Me dad 'd call in there and buy some sweets .
12 The feudal state achieved this by , amongst other things , stopping popular elections , protecting agricultural rents by excluding cheaper competition from overseas and maintaining punitive laws against theft of property .
13 She was knitting to cars as one single motif on her Silver Reed but had put the point cams on incorrectly and had one car in the middle and two half cars either side .
14 We always said that someone at the office called Jenkins had taken me to the local wine bar after work and we 'd run into some old girlfriend of his and Gillian who knew this girl vaguely was with her and we sort of got on immediately and made another date .
15 We have broadened our base since then and have strong finances . ’
16 Hoping to find important documents , the special ‘ capture group ’ of the Moscow and Russian departments of the ministry of internal affairs arrived at the central committee buildings at 4pm and ordered all workers to quit the buildings without briefcases within an hour , leaving their doors and safes open .
17 Also , I had sobered up by then and caused some complications by trying to stop the cheque — until my father came squealing on to the line .
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