Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the drawings , he sketched various elevations , then cut them out and transferred them on to the blocks of wood to be bandsawn . |
| 2 | Though she had not pressed them , as her friend Lois pressed them in between the pages of her Bible . |
| 3 | Japan said that it intended to build up its military forces to a high level so that it could cut them down in the interests of peace . |
| 4 | The last leg took me down through the fringes of the Forest of Dean along a narrowing spur . |
| 5 | To craft the pots so patiently from earth and water and then deliver them over to the mercies of fire and air . ’ |
| 6 | Just as the early European explorers of the North Atlantic would bring back the tusks of narwhals and pass them off as the horns of unicorns , so would the early Arabian and Indian sailors bring back the massive bones of the Cassowary as evidence of the giant " roc " of the Sinbad sagas , or the Garuda bird of Hindu mythology , which is today the symbol of Indonesia 's national airline . |
| 7 | Are you off to the wilds of Illinois ? ’ |
| 8 | If there is anything capable of lifting you up to the gates of heaven , then that is it . |
| 9 | Set in the heart of Newmarket , the horseracing capital of the world , the recently extended museum 's six galleries are packed with exhibits that will take you back to the origins of racing … when Charles II rode in matches across the glorious heath . |
| 10 | But can I just refer you back to the words of P B G three where it says quite clearly in paragraph thirty three . |
| 11 | He hauled me up from the bowels of the villa , took off his jacket and placed it tenderly round my shoulders . |
| 12 | Similarly , Charlie 's incarnation as a Norse explorer among the Skroelings , ending when a man who seems to be Erik the Red took his crew and ‘ steered them for three days among floating ice , each floe crowded with strange beasts that ‘ tried to sail with us , ’ said Charlie , ‘ and we beat them back with the handles of the oars ’ surely relates to the long sea voyage , an account of which originally formed the bulk of the ‘ Death by Water ’ section . |
| 13 | The supply chain project seeks to achieve this by focusing on future customer needs and driving them back through the activities of the business to make Guinness Brewing GB operate as effectively as possible for the company and its customers . |
| 14 | ‘ They were n't stopping , so I just took the mood down and told them I never knew any of them back in the days of groups like Dynamic 3 . |
| 15 | Then , when he fell £83,000 in arrears with the mortgage , he befriended Frank and Sheila Collings and conned them out of the deeds of their Twickenham home . |
| 16 | 2.17 This exercise has been described in a different way by Lord Diplock in Mallett v McMonagle [ 1970 ] AC 166 at p174 : The purpose of an award of damages under the Fatal Accidents Act is to provide the widow and other dependants of the deceased with a capital sum , which , with prudent management , will be sufficient to supply them with material benefits of the same standards and duration as would have been provided for them out of the earnings of the deceased had he not been killed by the tortious act of the defendant , credit being given for the value of any material benefits which will accrue to them ( otherwise than as the fruits of insurance ) as a result of his death . |
| 17 | The fire was built up higher than usual to guide them back to the camp , but also , Riven thought , because they were imagining the packs of grypesh coming after them out of the heights of the hills . |
| 18 | ‘ Keep them out of the hands of the police , that 's the thing . |
| 19 | I needed something , some gesture , to lift me out of the realms of the ordinary . |
| 20 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |
| 21 | Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office . |
| 22 | It was clear to me that his own personal preoccupations , such as had been conveyed to me by Father D'Arcy and hinted at by others , had cut him off from the workings of certain institutions — his unawareness of Collingwood 's preferment was a case in point — and again he wanted to be informed what the young were thinking . |
| 23 | He surrounded her and wrapped her up in the folds of his silence , his mystery . |
| 24 | The first leg of his travel plans will take him back to the elders of the church there , with some of the converts from Asia Minor and Greece , with a love gift for the relief of the hardship amongst the Christians . |
| 25 | Loretta put down her book , grasped him by the shoulders , and heaved him back into the arms of his tormentors . |
| 26 | Long periods of enforced solitude as a semi-invalid threw him back on the resources of his own imagination , and after reading Hindoo Holiday , by J. R. Ackerley [ q.v. ] , |
| 27 | Yet for a short time his arrival at Oxford threw him back on the hunkers of his class and family . |
| 28 | They were all studiously avoiding meeting his gaze , though he thought they were watching him out of the sides of their eyes . |
| 29 | The sooner I get him out of the hands of that teenage vixen , the happier I shall be ! ’ |
| 30 | Always wondered what brought her back to the miseries of soggy grey England , the endless winters . |