Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they returned with one last load Bicker stopped them -from going out for more . |
| 2 | It was Chris who prodded him into handing over to Patrick . |
| 3 | I did in fact attempt to return your telephone call , but when I rang you were out , and our current panic ( we 're in the throes of mounting our summer exhibition ) prevented me from getting back to you before your letter reached me . |
| 4 | I thought the best thing to do was spare Oliver 's blushes , so I murmured something about getting off to work . |
| 5 | He looked strangely at me , muttered something about coming back within the hour , and sauntered off . |
| 6 | What was worrying him more , he said , was the language barrier which prevented him from linking up with his Japanese teammates . |
| 7 | Others applauded him for standing up to America . |
| 8 | In the bedlam the Spaniard built a 5-0 lead but then 22-year-old sports journalist Nicola stunned her by fighting back to 5-3 . |
| 9 | Franky contented himself with strolling around with his blindfold still over his face . |
| 10 | Susie smiled when I thanked her for putting up with me . |
| 11 | He sounded impressed , then spoilt it by lapsing back into the mocking tone of their earlier conversation . |
| 12 | We were doubtful as to whether Owen would lie still long enough for a back massage , but he surprised us by putting up with it for about ten minutes . |
| 13 | In November 1974 , it was he who talked me into going along for the audition for ‘ New faces ’ at the Blue Angel nightclub in Leeds . |
| 14 | ‘ Anna warned me about sitting out in the sun , but … ’ |
| 15 | It may be that it was their actions that tipped the balance for Rank , and decided him against pushing on with his ambitions . |
| 16 | But what undermined him in office , and made him worth hearing out of it , was his surprise at becoming Prime Minister in the first place — Rab Butler shared that — so that , he agreed , he never quite suppressed a sense of the absurdity of his position . |
| 17 | The withdrawal of privileges is a very popular response by parents to non-compliance — for example : ‘ You 've been cheeky so I wo n't let you go out ’ ; ‘ You disobeyed me by going out on the road so you ca n't have that ice-cream . ’ |
| 18 | There were Sundays when Dadda did n't come to lunch , when depression kept him from stirring out of doors . |
| 19 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 20 | Then he accused me of going off with everyone there , which was totally untrue . |
| 21 | ‘ Still , I liked you for standin' up for me like you did . |
| 22 | I think it 's time I did something about getting out of this damnable situation . ’ |
| 23 | Some of her fellow students accused her of selling out to the whites . |
| 24 | Tatum , 29 , was said to have walked out because he banned her from going back into movies after six years as a wife and mother . |
| 25 | They accused him of dressing up as a woman to seduce his enemies , and of fancying Elmer Fudd . |
| 26 | His opponents accused him of selling out to the United States on North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) with the United States and Mexico and leaving Canada with more unemployed and a bigger public debt than ever . |
| 27 | Though he was , like McCarthy , anti-war , he believed Johnson to be invincible ; now he too entered the race , much to the chagrin of the McCarthy camp who accused him of muscling in on their act . |
| 28 | The thought stimulated her into springing out of bed , showering hastily , and dressing in her warm green trousers and top . |
| 29 | Councillors erm went on to be mayor and erm we even had one as went on to be erm MP you see . |
| 30 | Until recently Saddam Hussein was supported only by a lunatic fringe in the Soviet Union ; the leader of Pamyat , an anti-Semitic group , praised him for standing up to Zionism . |