Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forget rolled on his back on the court in the seconds before Noah and other members of the team joined him . |
| 2 | Even now , and though the events of June triggered a brief period of reappraisal , the British still seem besotted by their vision of China as a billion-strong market for their goods and services — and either unaware , or unimpressed , that their exports to Hong Kong itself are currently worth three times as much as those to its northern neighbour . |
| 3 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 4 | You will seen in my reply to Mrs Butterworth of Ambleside that I mention the fact that the Catholic Voice is often short of material for publication . |
| 5 | Pretty soon , if you consider that the only gags he feels at home with are the ones that get stuffed in his mouth in the interest of his , er , research . |
| 6 | Nell wears those large white Peter Pan collars much favoured by the wives of men involved in sex scandals , when they get photographed on their way to church the Sunday after the story breaks . |
| 7 | For an investor in bookish securities , the greatest potential rewards remain concentrated in my view in publishing , where the element of magic still applies . |
| 8 | But they feel torn between their loathing for General Noriega 's drug-based regime , and their alarm at the cavalier flouting of the OAS principle of non-intervention . |
| 9 | We become trapped by our dexterity in doing so . |
| 10 | We become enlightened in our relationship with God and with other people , and the Christian faith makes sense as nothing else ever could . |
| 11 | I 've arranged with my mother to er take her home after tea . |
| 12 | And I had to get a box and many a time I 've fallen on my back from that so Cos somebody had moved the boxes I think . |
| 13 | ‘ Well then , I 've heard about your relationship with Fanny Robin , and I think you ought to marry her . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've heard from my cousin in Berlin . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've heard from my husband about graduates not getting jobs , even with a degree in computer science . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , I 've heard from our man at the post office that our letter was handed to him when he called yesterday . ’ |
| 17 | Yet you 've sat by his bed fer damn near the whole of the past five days'n'nights . |
| 18 | Well I said to Mr , I said well this is the first time I 've sat in your lounge for nearly two years . |
| 19 | Well it may well suggest it , I mean I have no no reason to doubt the statement you 've made or even statements made in newspapers , they 've added to my concern from my own investigations . |
| 20 | erm unfortunately , it might sound extremely erm severe , but I can think of a number of people I 've met in my experience as a pastor who really and frankly could not help themselves and need to be treated almost like children again and made to receive help , and there are quite number of those sort of characters , unfortunately , on the streets of Oxford . |
| 21 | And , we 've seen through their advertising in targeting women that they 've tried to post the image if you smoke , you 're more likely to be slim and slender . |
| 22 | we 've already written , we 've already written last week to the Scottish office , we 've written to our member of parliament and we 've asked him to see if we can get a delay on the date because we 've taken three years to try and get planning consent . |
| 23 | Well , in the morning , when you 've got over your fit of pique , about I do n't know what , I 'll expect an apology from you . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've got through my grant plus £500 of my savings this term , ’ bragged Chris Singh , a first-year communications and media student with no regrets . |
| 25 | ‘ I know we have n't known each other long , but you 've got under my skin like no other woman I 've ever met . |
| 26 | Colleagues , just to try and let you know what , er I 've got in my mind concerning the business that 's fell off the agenda yesterday and today so far . |
| 27 | Yeah and I was watching it on This Morning and what it is it 's because most things you 've got in your kitchen like myself are all tested on animals and they do n't label it |
| 28 | I 've talked during my presentation about each of the paradoxes which we laid out at the beginning of the morning which talked about the diverse needs of different parts of an enterprise from their information systems if we are to deliver the adv er the advantages of enterprise-wide client server . |
| 29 | ‘ You know these people ; you 've dealt with their type for years . |
| 30 | " I 've dealt with your firm for several years . |