Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had reports for disobeying orders , getting involved , stopping an officer doing what she should be doing , just through sticking up for my girlfriend . |
| 2 | ‘ Who says anythin' about goin' in with Rico ? ’ |
| 3 | There was a violent row in the Bundestag , for instance , when the SPD leader , Kurt Schuhmacher , attacked Adenauer for cosying up to the enemy by calling him ‘ the Allies ' Chancellor ’ in 1949 . |
| 4 | There are flashing units for flashing up to abutments or , if desired , these can be reversed to run into gutters . |
| 5 | It would be less embarrassing if , without apparently knowing what had been said , she made it abundantly clear that Didi Lombard had been totally wrong , she was n't smitten , and as for eating out of his hand … ! |
| 6 | This lovely Victorian house is quite blissfully situated amongst a cluster of houses , in the village of Alnmouth , right on the banks of the river estuary , with only a small garden and a ‘ no through ’ road between it and the beach — it is brilliant for tumbling out of bed and enjoying a long walk on almost deserted sands . |
| 7 | The walk follows a winding road out of Ballycastle for a short while , but it is worth branching off at the sign for Kinbane Castle . |
| 8 | Their long mobile noses are used for rooting around in search of small animals . |
| 9 | He said , ‘ Nothing worth sticking around for here . |
| 10 | We hope we will be forgiven for editing out of Dr Schore 's discussion of the background to LM 's but inclusion would have meant duplication since John Tomlinson 's Dose Dilution and the LM Potencies already covers the points he makes . |
| 11 | ‘ This is not a day for cheering up on . |
| 12 | Mind you Neil 's not worried about parading around with nothing on , is he ? |
| 13 | We will pay you 2,000 for seeing through to completion the data files from the submitted ASCII files for the first four titles of Reading for English , 50% of this on signature of this letter and 50% on delivery . |
| 14 | Lyles would like to thank the Stoddard ‘ non-playing ’ Captain , Jimmy Shiels , for stepping in as their late replacement , scoring a creditable 26 points . |
| 15 | They were extremely grateful to the Government for stepping in with a £140 rebate because they saw their aunts , uncles , friends , cousins and others elsewhere in the country paying a great deal less . |
| 16 | Thus if I incur a verbal warning for stepping out of the area , I do n't then expect to receive a half-point penalty for a slight contravention of another rule . |
| 17 | Eyeing the police car , she wondered whether it belonged to Officer Hassan and whether it was worth hanging around for a word with him . |
| 18 | National Savings income bonds might just be worth hanging on to at 11.75 per cent if you are a non-taxpayer . |
| 19 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 20 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 21 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 22 | Serves him right for sucking up to them — being the Thinking Person 's Tory , and all that , eh ? |
| 23 | How 's about easing up on the sentence , it is Easter after all . ’ |
| 24 | The new ticket office opens in the east stand on monday so no more getting piss wet through queueing up by the back of the west stand ( except for home match days ) . |
| 25 | A tool called a shack-fork — a fork with curved tines and an iron bow at the shoulder was used to gather the swathes of barley into gavels ready for pitching on to the wagons . |
| 26 | The CPSA issued a ‘ hit list ’ of services earmarked for contracting out including 3,000 DVLA jobs , 1,150 at Companies House , Cardiff and 275 Welsh Office posts . |
| 27 | He suggests a minimum earnings level for contracting out of around £8,500 to £10,000 , while LAS similarly recommends £9,000 . |
| 28 | He was talking about branching out into the ship-in-a-bottle business because Jonathon will make only ships . |
| 29 | No , I would say that if an independent assessor has been dispatched to this is a good point worth bringing through in the event of erm a disagreement between ourselves and a policy holder , the policy holder has a number of aspects that they can they can approach . |
| 30 | ‘ Thanks for sticking up for me , ’ he snapped at last , an unmistakable sneer in his tone . |