Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be better for them to prop up the Ottoman empire for a while longer , but at the same time to keep their options open by maintaining contact with the various factions amongst the Serbs . |
| 2 | With a queue of industrialized and developing countries , from Israel to Pakistan , eager to achieve the status of nuclear weapons powers , it is all too easy for them to leach out the necessary technology from ‘ peaceful ’ atomic programmes . |
| 3 | It was too early for me to think up a brilliant reply . |
| 4 | I have here a copy of the committee which was formed that night , and also a copy of the minutes , I 'll give each Councillor one , and then they can read it at their leisure , instead of me taking up the whole meeting . |
| 5 | One of them got out the ugliest looking knife that I have seen to cut a piece of string or something on his bicycle . |
| 6 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 7 | A ten-minute soak worked wonders on Merrill 's jaded sense of well-being , and when she went down she found the three of them seated around a huge log fire . |
| 8 | Come on , come on , he thought , and pictured the three of them plummeting down the last thirty feet into the basement . |
| 9 | The five of them scrambled up the narrow carpeted stairway . |
| 10 | Although Goodman and Peckinpah are credited with the screenplay , all three of them hammered out a final script . |
| 11 | One of them picked up the rolled newspaper which Clasper had flung into the crowd . |
| 12 | The two of you go back a long way . ’ |
| 13 | One of my favourite memories of her goes back a few years to when she was playing Martina Navratilova in New England . |
| 14 | Oh , it was a disaster , he was er my estimation of him went down a hundred percent because she smoked |
| 15 | The last word came out fiercely and the force of it set off a slow noise from the crowd , like surf on a beach . |
| 16 | Lengthy booklists are expensive and dull : with some time and effort it will be possible for you to build up a personal library and reference system which is individually geared to your particular needs , and one which helps you to build on your existing knowledge rather than attempting to start again from scratch . |
| 17 | The second time through you miss out the first time bar ( 8 ) and take the second time bar ( 9 ) and continue on with bars 10 , 11 etc . |
| 18 | And while she drew , one of the many voices inside her set up a repeated chant , ‘ What should I do ? |
| 19 | ( Given this prestige , it would he unseemly for him to take on a menial local job . ) |
| 20 | She looked up at him , her face so blotched and swollen that despite himself he put out a hand to comfort her , only for her to let out a frightened cry , trying frantically to burrow into the sofa to avoid any contact with him . |
| 21 | A man with his back to her bent over a large table covered with papers , his silver hair catching the light from an overhead lamp . |
| 22 | Final assembly is the stage in the car production process when the welded steel car body , having already been painted , is brought together with the engine and transmission , and all the components and trim are attached to it to make up the completed car . |
| 23 | But in some cases there is dependence , and laser killing shows that , for example , one kind of cell induces three other cells just next to it to develop along a particular pathway . |
| 24 | He set aside an area of one hundred and nine acres to the east of the original Saxon village ( called Old Town to this day ) and on it laid out a regular plan of streets — three running parallel with the river and three others crossing them at right angles . |
| 25 | ‘ And if you keep both feet in you 've more chance of dropping back into the chair on your knees when it tries to flip , ready for it to whip back the other way , ’ says Birchall . |
| 26 | They told the inquiry that if a particularly strong FM transmission was made very near the radio it might be possible for it to pick up the sub-harmonic at around 14 MHz but that such a signal could not have emanated from a low-powered , hand-held type of two-way radio . |
| 27 | What could be more appropriate than for it to take on a great nineteenth-century house to complement the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century interiors at Ham and Osterley ? |
| 28 | So it is n't a bad idea at this stage of the season for us to conjure up a few exercises to test receding intellectual fibre . |
| 29 | The remaining half-dozen or so clasped the last tattered shreds of the undergraduate life around them to keep out the cold winds of the world . |