Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Test for it with a screwdriver . |
| 2 | It 's one like that except a lot smaller with little red berries that grow off it in the spring . |
| 3 | Put any combination of any soft fruits you like into the rumtopf and cover each layer with rum or brandy , so that the fruit is thoroughly soaked , and then forget about it until the winter . |
| 4 | We cry for it in the night , for this perfect union . |
| 5 | Young men leap past us from the roof above , splashing into the water to catch up with their canoes , beer bottles held aloft . |
| 6 | We lead more private lives today than ever before , a defence perhaps against the masses who press against us in the tubes , in the office , at school . |
| 7 | A brilliant officer with more than twenty commendations , he had grown to believe he was omnipotent ; and when Mathews refused to tell him the names of his accomplices , saying it was more than his life was worth , Drury , obsessed with clearing up another case , offered him a deal : make a statement that three men whose names I will give you were your accomplices , testify against them in the witness-box , and in return no charges will be brought against you , and we 'll come to an arrangement about the reward money offered by the Post Office . |
| 8 | While each of the principal lacunae is developing , a tracheal branch and a nerve grow into it from the base of the wing , the lacunae apparently offering the paths of least resistance . |
| 9 | or part of it at leapt , should be united with this parish under one Kirk session , they associate with them as a member of Session . " |
| 10 | ‘ You are a good officer , Merymose , ’ he said at last , ‘ and although I disagree with you about the capability of our Medjays , I respect your judgment . |
| 11 | I suggest to them at the beginning of each session that they will learn about a different existence from any they may already have experienced . |
| 12 | These may in turn be sub-divided ; goods possessed may comprise either the results of private purchase or goods allocated by the state , while goods not possessed tend to fall into two categories : first , those we encounter as material forms , in particular the built environment , the goods of our acquaintances or those in the high street shop , and secondly , goods we do not experience directly , but which appear to us through the media — for example in television , magazines and advertising . |
| 13 | you want to what with the washing machine ? |
| 14 | About quangos whatsoever , I want to something about the boundaries of the European parliament . |
| 15 | How long do they think the countryside will remain clean after they descend on it like a swarm of locusts with their cars , motorbikes and stereos ? |
| 16 | ‘ in a public place called … ‘ 'Public place ’ includes any highway and any other premises or place to which at the material time the public have or are permitted to have access whether on payment or otherwise ( section 1(4) Prevention of Crime Act 1953 ) . |
| 17 | He tries to guess what you say to him from the vowels . |
| 18 | It 's what they all say to me in the end . |
| 19 | I don I should also say that following a very recent decision er in our submission that 's probably right , that my Lord as I say , I say to you with no joy , this really is desperate and er one can not have , in our submission , in the minds of the jury by inadmissible evidence , the suggestion that yes we have been harbouring this man two days before . |
| 20 | When the little ones squeeze past me in the Superette I give their mops the chaste old tousle . |
| 21 | De Man 's dynamic of absence and intrusion controls our response to his texts — Rousseau , Nietzsche , Rilke and Proust — and therefore to an ongoing critique on reference , because texts , like characters , apparently speak for themselves in the modes of citation and paraphrase . |
| 22 | His head was throbbing and his body was a bruise radiating from a single abscess of pain that cut through him at every step . |
| 23 | Will serving dishes , cutlery , table linen be kept in the kitchen or is there space for them near the dining table ? |
| 24 | We make them at just under a pound but what the record companies charge for them in the shops is up to them |
| 25 | No one can be quite I happy in an ill-planned house any more than in ill-fitting clothes , and although the ‘ cut' ’ and ‘ ‘ style , ’ are much , they count for nothing in a garment which pinches and annoys the wearer in a hundred ways … |
| 26 | You go up round then you come down yes you can through but people queue and wait for one on the top . |
| 27 | Take Nosey and the spare horse , then wait for me at the crossroads . |
| 28 | After that , wait for me at the corner of the street . ’ |
| 29 | He was for going on at once , but I would stay ; so he said he would return to Mullinavat and wait for me in a bar there . |
| 30 | Wait for me in the office . |