Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the inappropriate nature of my clothing that has consistently let me down through the years . |
| 2 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 3 | Had carried him off into the mountains , in this harsh summer of storms and floods ? |
| 4 | But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas . |
| 5 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 6 | Maybe I should have turned it over to the locals … ’ |
| 7 | He 's built us up from the ruins of 1987 . |
| 8 | Then , deciding she was no political , just another stroppy trucker , they 'd handed her over to the locals , which was a big relief . |
| 9 | She 'd have had him back to the manufacturers for radical restructuring . |
| 10 | ‘ The sea has obviously come up and washed it out of the rocks and the heavy rain has probably washed the puddles of oil from high up on the banks where the sea was n't reaching . ’ |
| 11 | There was er she said , Blue Peter , and they should have put it in because they 've got it in for the kids . |
| 12 | And I do n't think if you 've got it out of the Guilds and say now we 've got to have so much for the rent this week I do n't think I would have a Guild very long , because they can go round the corner . |
| 13 | The last two singles , ‘ Dragging Me Down ’ and ‘ Two Worlds Collide ’ , and new one ‘ Generations ’ have pulled them back from the margins that the rambling excesses of ‘ The Beast Inside ’ threatened to confine them to . |
| 14 | By the teethmarks in Heather 's T-shirt we knew Penny had pulled her back from the stairs — Heather 's body did n't have a mark on it . |
| 15 | computers and that and er he left it and he just carried on talking about this that and the other , and he says right I 'm going and he went and he left the game , he 'd brought it down for the kids , he did n't say , you know |
| 16 | I needed you so badly and all you ever did to me was cut me down at the knees . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Or he could have flown it around in the wastes of ice where Shackleton lost the Endurance . |
| 19 | I bought a steak and kidney pie , heated it up with the peas and some potatoes and put a couple of spoonfuls of peas on my plate to kid him I 'd had some . |
| 20 | Possibly her father had earlier taken her up into the workings to show her where he was working ; even so it would have been an apprehensive little girl who made her way along that long tunnel . |
| 21 | What I 'm saying is that he would n't have taken her out into the woods . |
| 22 | Familiarity with the voices that had haunted him down through the years had encouraged a bravado that was little like his real self . |
| 23 | I think what radical feminism has done is popularised that and taken it out on the streets and provided a core of anger and rage and has mobilized women . |
| 24 | So taken it down to the tills at the front , cos they move quicker |
| 25 | Other countries , including West Germany and Japan , are following , and the UK is a world leader in research , though our country 's usual secrecy has kept it out of the headlines . |