Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fought their attempts to carry him out with the strength of one possessed . |
| 2 | All that postmodernism has been able to do is signal the demise and loss of all we have held dear , and it remains for another generation of artists to pull us out of the mire . |
| 3 | Hard-up families in the stockbroker belt are begging state schools to bail them out as the recession bites deeper . |
| 4 | That is the pathway we have gone down , and in consequence we have reduced the amount of food that is given to our cows that could be eaten by man from 50 per cent to 14 per cent by getting the input from grass and porridge oats : food that would otherwise be wasted in a system that is not using these animals to pick it up on the way . |
| 5 | In the 1760s Catherine II of Russia had in self-defence to issue decrees ordering her subjects to petition her only through the appropriate officials and not by the direct personal presentation to her of their grievances and requests . |
| 6 | The crowd was shouting and gesticulating , parents lifting children on shoulders to keep them out of the crush , fists punching the air , workmen 's tools being waved like weapons . |
| 7 | It was surely preferable for the superpowers to fight it out in the space race than blow the world to bits ( Wolfe 1979 ) . |
| 8 | In Darcy 's Utopia there are bound to be children , but their parents will be carefully selected , and being in short supply they will grow up in a world which loves and admires children and finds them interesting , and does n't herd them together in schools to get them out of the way , dunk them in front of obscene videos to keep them quiet , and slap them about and threaten them in the streets , which is what happens in this society of ours which you seem to find both perfectly ordinary , and , worse , inevitable . |
| 9 | The Haldane partisan , Morris , moreover , said openly that he defied Captain Cunningham and all his friends and supporters to remove him again from the town . |
| 10 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 11 | A silence fell on the room , and its increasing heaviness made her heave herself up from the couch and take the three steps to throw herself on to the seat beside him ; and to put an arm around his shoulder and say , ‘ Come on , lad , come on . |
| 12 | Quick as a flash he was at her side , catching her before she hit the ground , his arm hooking behind her knees to scoop her up into the air . |
| 13 | It took me nearly twenty minutes to talk her out of the loo , finally having to promise that Nevil was not a friend , that he would n't call the police and that there would be no need for Mr and Mrs Binkworthy to know anything untoward had happened that afternoon . |
| 14 | However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town . |
| 15 | Together they rode across Hodge Beck and gathered up the flocks to look them over before the onset of winter . |
| 16 | Alexander had smiled and risen to his feet to kiss her lightly on the cheek . |
| 17 | BR staff and preservationists pulled out all the stops to have everything right on the day even though they were hampered by high winds and heavy rain . |
| 18 | ‘ I needed last Wednesday 's Coca-Cola Cup game against Bristol Rovers to get me back into the swing of things after a three-match suspension . |
| 19 | He also gives sanctuary to Tom Gradgrind , and arranges for Childers to see him safely aboard the ship that is to take him to foreign parts . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'll need some externals to tap you properly into the Dream . |
| 21 | But at the time of building I think it was just continued practice from the victorian days to run it round on the top . |
| 22 | By abolishing their organs of self-government , attempting to enrol them in secular educational institutions , and trying much harder than earlier legislators to force them out of the countryside into the towns , the Minister of State Properties intensified the subversion of Jewish communal life which had begun when community leaders had to make invidious choices about recruits for the army . |
| 23 | They dig for days to get them out of the ground , and hide them jealously from other Yahoos . ’ |
| 24 | There were no relatives to travel with her to the grave , only strangers to see her off on the darkest of journeys . |
| 25 | The proposal on the Fifth Directive concerning the structure of public limited companies is based on Article 54 ( right for natural and legal persons to establish themselves freely in the Community ) . |
| 26 | But that said , the efforts to peck oneself out of the shell of isolation , and to knock politely on other people 's , are perhaps the two most essential strategies for the general reduction of stress . |
| 27 | This explains the emergence of out-placement counsellors , consultants who specialise in aiding out-of work executives to sell themselves effectively in a buyer 's market . |
| 28 | In the Fens , mothers abandoned their children ‘ swimming in their beds , till good people , adventuring their lives , went up to the breast in the waters to fetch them out at the windows ’ . |
| 29 | The White Paper recognised that unscrupulous landlords might be tempted to harass existing tenants to force them out of the property , which could then be let to new tenants at the higher market rent , and in an effort to prevent this , the harassment provisions of the 1977 Protection from Eviction Act were strengthened and a new right of compensation — civil law damages-was introduced in cases of unlawful eviction . |
| 30 | No other home could be found for these cars at short notice , so Cohen 's men were called in with oxy-acetylene torches to break them up on the spot . |