Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hold them up to look through the paper . |
| 2 | Are we about to embark on an information explosion that historians could never handle , or are we about to discover resources to make a historian 's vision of our world fuller than the vision historians have of any other period ? |
| 3 | And every day he spends in bed wastes away a little more of his authority : parliament does n't like sick leaders , it casts them out to die on the cold , cold slopes of the House of Lords . |
| 4 | The C.C. said that they called him in to look at the body . |
| 5 | It might be a way of tempting him down to sit in the bar , sometimes . ’ |
| 6 | It had been Sister Cooney 's idea to take him down to help in the library . |
| 7 | I thought that if I took him down to paddle for a while , it would cool him down and distract him , so he would be able to sleep . |
| 8 | This meant that Jocasta was unlikely to come bouncing out and invite her in to listen to a Mahler symphony on her record player . |
| 9 | When visiting a church on the south coast , I saw the following notice for the Young Wives ' Social Evening : ‘ If your husband has nothing on , bring him along to join in the fun ! ’ |
| 10 | but oh dear but he , mum did get him off to sleep in the end |
| 11 | Their routine is quite demanding and in some ways it expects a level of determination on the part of the rehabilitee that would probably be high enough to get him back to work without a course of formal rehabilitation . |
| 12 | You were pulling him back to get on the dance floor ! |
| 13 | Apparently he promised not to attack Douglas Hurd personally , but then quotes stitched him up and hung him out to dry over the classlessness thing . |
| 14 | The original bouquet for this picture was exceptionally large , so I have not been able to reproduce a life-sized replica but instead have scaled it down to fit into a picture frame . |
| 15 | And when you get to er to the landing you turn it round through forty five degrees and then down a little bit further and eventually you tip it over to go down the stairs . |
| 16 | He bent from his great height to take her right hand into his own large one , turned it over to look at the scars and callouses hard manual labour had inflicted on its once pink and white delicacy . |
| 17 | That 's why I kept putting it off to go to the doctor to get help 'cos I thought that , with me having kids , he would automatically ring the social services and tell them . |
| 18 | ‘ Someone 's dressed it up to look like a castle out of a fairy tale . |
| 19 | I had , for once , no official papers to read and picked it up to read in the tram . |
| 20 | Finally , if you find your mind wanders on to other thoughts during the exercise bring it back to focus on the feelings . |
| 21 | joined us on to assist in the office . |
| 22 | joined us on to assist in the laboratory , ( she likes to be called ! ) . |