Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun pl] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But so are you , ’ I protested , really astonished because he had been so reasonable about my activities up to now . |
| 2 | I got optimistic about making music again through my friends down there , like Nic . |
| 3 | I let the money slip through my fingers on to the floor . |
| 4 | But if you wanted to go to any of those , those I marked for my days off , apart from the one to Blagden on a half day . |
| 5 | It was warm , almost uncomfortably so after their nights out under the stars , and Paige felt the stickiness of it on her skin . |
| 6 | Patsy 's brother Dennis also played for the club and did not appreciate the secretary 's habitual greeting : ‘ with me bleedin ’ ribs pokin ’ out of me skin , breakin ’ me neck to get at that six and eight ’ ( the initial sum dispensed by the Secretary ) , Dennis Hendren had not wintered well ’ and did not believe Middlesex looked after its players out of season . |
| 7 | They were still talking about the incident on Wednesday when Kathleen returned to work after her days off . |
| 8 | Anyway , is , is , is there agreement that there 's , that this er , capital programme and associated papers after our deliberations on are referred to the P A G , is that agreed ? |
| 9 | People lied about their intentions up to the moment of voting and went on lying even as they left the polling stations , saying they had voted for Labour when they had voted Tory , ’ he says . |
| 10 | She said , ‘ She appears to have asked for her letters back . |
| 11 | They tub the velvet off their antlers on to the trees and take off the bark but , , they do n't do enough damage to matter . |
| 12 | As I move and start to nestle my shin against a calf whose muscles are loosened by sleep , she senses what I 'm doing , and without waking reaches up with her left hand and pulls the hair off her shoulders on to the top of her head , leaving me her bare nape to nestle in . |
| 13 | Football mythology includes the unlikely tale of a First Division club laundering cash from the Great Train Robbery through its turnstiles back in the 1960s . |
| 14 | The folds cascaded through her hands on to her lap . |
| 15 | It draws to London large numbers of overseas students for its courses on , and research in , epidemiology , medical microbiology , hepatitis , helminthology and parasitology . |
| 16 | ‘ Arsenal played for their lives out there , ’ said Fergie . |
| 17 | If the original intention was to make the Greeks feel embarrassed at asking for their marbles back , the calls for their return may grow more strident if the laboratory folds up altogether . |
| 18 | I 've had to turn half of one of my clerks over to fee earning work . |
| 19 | I was very fond of her when I was a child , and used to spend most of my holidays up here with her — my father was in the Consular Service , so my parents spent a lot of their time abroad . |
| 20 | Provided I pay my cook her wages regularly , she can not complain if I choose to take any or all of my meals out . |
| 21 | I was taken prisoner of war at Saint Valerie for a few of my friends in from Edinburgh who were taken prisoner of war . |
| 22 | ‘ Such innuendo , Chief Inspector , is wholly without foundation , and I wish you to know that one of my friends back home is the fiercest libel lawyer — ’ |
| 23 | I 've been in regular contact with Earl 's Court Project and a lot of my friends down there . |
| 24 | And er she said , I I have occasional requests , I 'm full at the moment , erm would you mind if I passed some of my enquiries on to you as and when they occur . |
| 25 | So I can get loads of homework done and erm like I can count that as one of my nights in . |
| 26 | I called in at the office on one of my days off , to see what was doing , and found that a posting had come through for me to report forthwith to Group Headquarters at Huntingdon . |
| 27 | Had one of my plants out there that has bloody gone now ! |
| 28 | Given the new ball , I used to turn the front of my trousers over and polish it there . |
| 29 | I lit the taper , twisted another dozen pages , lit one more and pushed the waistband of my trousers down to my knees . |
| 30 | So that 's one of my hobbies , I do n't know whether I 'll be going to Nepal or anywhere like that again , but it , I 've certainly got er lots of happy memories of that experience and er I 've brought erm a photo album erm with some of my pictures in if anyone would like to have a look |