Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Why not pass them on to a hospital or children 's home where they will be treasured . |
| 2 | Vitor slept for almost an hour and so did Thomas , but both of them awoke as they neared the outskirts of Lisbon , just in time , for now Ashley needed directions , and Vitor navigated them on to a bypass and north along minor roads . |
| 3 | I did put my shoes on cos I thought I sha n't get them on in a minute because my feet swell when I sit down . |
| 4 | Pot up the small young plants as ‘ plugs ’ and grow them on in a frame or a greenhouse — or even in a wooden box covered with polythene . |
| 5 | It is also quick enough to get me somewhere in a hurry if I 'm called out on an emergency . |
| 6 | When I was a schoolgirl some friends took me on to a farm and I used to watch the milking and think what a grand life it was , so healthy , not at all like life in the pits and the factories . |
| 7 | ‘ Basic computer keyboard skills have to be there — we would n't want to go the lengths of having to train them on that — but training on our specialist software means bringing them in for a week and we 'll probably bring them in every three months to keep updating them . ’ |
| 8 | Suddenly , a ladder broke away , precipitating them down into a heap and unfortunately one was killed . |
| 9 | Or maybe a a lot in a sack wheel them down on a wheelbarrow or something . |
| 10 | These days people bring hamsters and terrapins and rabbits and dogs , but nobody quite has the nerve to pin them down on a slab and cut their throats . |
| 11 | He saw things in a flash and put them down in a sentence or at most a paragraph . |
| 12 | Gradually , however , Joe came to see me less as an interloper and increasingly as a friend who happened to share both his home and his mother with him . |
| 13 | He takes me in at a glance and starts peering around the room , checking out the sofa , examining the ceiling . |
| 14 | I had this idea they had booked me in for a Caesarean because I 'm small , but had n't told me . |
| 15 | Esther hinted that it was the grim circumstances of their childhood that had drawn them together with a love that dared not speak its name . |
| 16 | Last autumn a conference in Toronto brought them together for an update and planning meeting . |
| 17 | The object of the authoring tool is to make it possible for the user to concentrate just on the information and design requirements of an application rather being diverted and befogged by the technical problems of putting them together in a system that works . |
| 18 | Both beauties have refused offers to team them together in a film since neither wants to be upstaged . |
| 19 | Individually they are fine and I get on very well with most of them , but put them together in a group and they seem to have an attitude problem . |
| 20 | You could 've knocked me down with a feather when they tol ’ me . ’ |
| 21 | He said he 'd put them away for a bit and give them to Oliver when he started smoking again . |
| 22 | We will not write these down explicitly but will impose them successively in a B & B procedure . |
| 23 | Slowly , trying to ration the pain into manageable portions , I slid my hand out again , and then after a while , hardly believing it , I bent my arm and felt round my back and came to the rod there also , and faced the grim certainty that someone had shot me not with a bullet but an arrow . |
| 24 | Head seems to work fairly well it 's easily cleaned out easily fed and the cows come to calf we just put them in the pend and after that once they 're a reasonable size we put them through into a byre and it easier to work the situation once the calves are a a fair size and pass the stage especially . |
| 25 | I picked up my briefcase , started out the door and asked the FBI agent on the case to see me downstairs to a cab because I did n't feel very safe in Chicago . |
| 26 | Her husband had opened a bookshop to support her and their two children , but it was " imperative for her to work " at her old job as reader , " to tide them over for a year or two " . |
| 27 | She looked me over with an expression that matched her tone . |
| 28 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 29 | He rang me just before a show and said the words : ‘ Well , I intend to bring the show to New York . |
| 30 | We could send them off to a university or something like that so the . |