Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [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 | 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 ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Just bottled it up with the other terrible things — blocked it out of my life and my mind . |
| 7 | Only two of their candidates have even made it through to the second round . |
| 8 | finally only one of junior teams has made it through to the third round of the cup … |
| 9 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've plunged you in at the deep end . |
| 11 | The pub had drawn her out of the cold and fog into warmth . |
| 12 | because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If that had happened in my day , those players would have had him up against the nearest wall and sorted it out . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Erm with a view to saying really , providing we 've got it in by the first of April next year |
| 18 | Got it back across the other fella really could n't quite get enough power on the shot . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Her mother had brought her up in the strict religion of the Mormon church , which made her very guilty about having sex . |
| 24 | There could only be one reason why Ross — always such a proud and unforgiving man — would have broken his own self-imposed exile and contacted her ; only one reason why he would have brought her back to the quiet privacy of her own apartment . |
| 25 | Yet the glimpse of her on that brief video had n't brought her back with the sharp focus that I craved . |
| 26 | This time he did n't throw her down with a fury but gently laid her down among the downy pillows and started to strip off his shirt . |
| 27 | And Sand Table gives every indication that his trainer has laid him out with the Royal Hunt Cup in mind . |
| 28 | And Sand Table gives every indication that his trainer has laid him out with the Royal Hunt Cup in mind . |
| 29 | Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor . |
| 30 | It was true that she had literally brought him back from the dead . |