Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford United are facing their own big challenge … four defeats in a row has dropped them back into the bottom half of the table … last home win was this one against Millwall … tomorrow they should … they must dish out the same treatment to struggling Southend |
| 2 | Dinah felt herself trembling ; this was the man who had libelled Paul and herself , had made their early years wretched , had hounded her out of the only world she knew . |
| 3 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
| 4 | I offer my congratulations to the workers and management of Yarrow , who have picked themselves up after the bitter disappointment of losing the last order , despite having built the first of class and many of the subsequent ships . |
| 5 | Because I had n't sorted myself out about the whole thing properly , my feelings while waiting were a complete tangle — although I did n't want to see him , I did desperately want him to want to see me . |
| 6 | You 've still got the problem of addressing praise , because quite often you 've only , if you 've given somebody a specific task then it 's easy to praise or not to praise in that situation , but if they 've just come in , done their job and gone home , you know , just sat on a checkout for four hours , right it 's my time to leave , then , if they 've done nothing out of the blue , extraordinary , so they do n't do anything wrong , or , you know . |
| 7 | A few weeks earlier he had phoned me out of the blue — I think he was checking to see how many of his cronies were still alive ! |
| 8 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
| 9 | Just bottled it up with the other terrible things — blocked it out of my life and my mind . |
| 10 | Only two of their candidates have even made it through to the second round . |
| 11 | finally only one of junior teams has made it through to the third round of the cup … |
| 12 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 13 | Founded in 1971 DIOK have built themselves up as the strongest outfit in Holland and were Dutch champions in 1981 , 1989 , 1990 , 1991 and 1992 . |
| 14 | She obviously had not noticed anything out of the ordinary , and Dorothy told herself not to be a fool imagining things . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've plunged you in at the deep end . |
| 16 | The pub had drawn her out of the cold and fog into warmth . |
| 17 | because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people . |
| 18 | He had taken her out one day , her and Mama , and when he had handed her out of the big Daimler , her papa 's pride , he had slipped a note into her hand , inviting her to meet him when his duties were over , and go out with him — perhaps for a ride on the Brooklyn Ferry . |
| 19 | If that had happened in my day , those players would have had him up against the nearest wall and sorted it out . |
| 20 | He referred to the policy of separate development as ‘ apart-hate ’ in his first few letters , until somebody must have clued him in on the correct spelling . |
| 21 | That much was real estate , available to anyone with the right money , although it did n't help to discover that Alison and her late husband , a philosophy don at Balliol , had bought it back in the early sixties for less than £2,000 . |
| 22 | Erm with a view to saying really , providing we 've got it in by the first of April next year |
| 23 | Got it back across the other fella really could n't quite get enough power on the shot . |
| 24 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 25 | But most of those fighting girls have sold themselves out to the big operators , and work the male kick themselves , clitoris or no clitoris . |
| 26 | you see , I mean what they do is soon as they 've kicked them out in the mental homes they 're having to put them in to erm , I mean erm , there are people who are not able to be on their own , I mean the ones they 've kicked out are people that have been depressed and say well you 've got to find , get your family to help , I mean , when you 've got somebody depressed in your family you try and help them |
| 27 | The baby-faced rapist knocked on her door in the early hours , claiming to be a neighbour who had locked himself out in the pouring rain . |
| 28 | He drank too much and was usually overweight but , to his credit , had dragged himself back into the top thirty on the circuit in the last couple of years . |
| 29 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 30 | Its crassness repelled her but it slid inside her because she recognized it as her name and suddenly there was a dark pit , a chasm , a void , and the gravity of being dragged her down into the dark heart of weight . |