Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of his little ways had indeed been quite surprising in the past , seeing that they ranged from the quartering of badgers , rescued from a baiting , in her coal-shed to the introduction of separate limbs and even of whole orphans for dissection when they were in good supply towards the end of winter ; but she had grown used to them little by little . |
| 2 | The tables are the basic method of holding information , but you might want to put single records by themselves on the screen and work through them rather like flipping through a card index . |
| 3 | People in those worlds probably treated them rather like national papers , too . |
| 4 | So we looked around and there was erm a box full of them right up high , yeah ? |
| 5 | And still the faint red light up ahead came and went by fits and starts , leading them on across gale-swept open moorland , through massively still pine forests , up exposed dirt tracks and over passes whose names had vanished with the inhabitants of the farms where until a few decades earlier generation after generation of human beings had eked out lives of almost unimaginable deprivation . |
| 6 | And sew them on with elasticated cotton so that they ‘ give ’ a little . |
| 7 | Once the new growth has started to emerge , pot them on into new compost , water well and place in a light position on the greenhouse bench . |
| 8 | I am in the process of compiling a book on old fashioned remedies for horse ailments and am writing to ask if any of your readers have experience of any , and would they be kind enough to pass them on for possible publication . |
| 9 | He and Amy had collected large stones from the beach , looking for those with holes in them — and he had strung them on to strong cord and tied them along one side of the playpen . |
| 10 | But even among the backward and traditional , two kinds of country people were the major pillars of the ancient ways — the old and the women , whose ‘ old wives ’ tales ' passed them on to new generations , and occasionally , for the benefit of city men , to collectors of folklore and folksong . |
| 11 | In addition to the barristers in practice , a considerable number have used the Bar as a stepping stone or crutch leading them on to other things . |
| 12 | The best way to enjoy Italian white truffles is to shave them on to hot , simple food — risotto , taglioni or fresh pasta . |
| 13 | An alternative for viewing and drawing small peels or segments of larger peels is to mount them in 35 mm transparency mounts ( preferably with glass both sides ) and to project them on to white paper or card , on which tracings can be made . |
| 14 | These were being lowered to the roof-top , where Repo Men guided them on to powered sleds and steered them into the lift . |
| 15 | Their sedentary way of life , the fact that individual families could become units of production and could not only store considerable surpluses , but pass them on to subsequent generations , now meant that the old egalitarian and cooperative values of the hunter-gatherers were gone for ever . |
| 16 | Try tracing them on to thin card . |
| 17 | For a time she became a pony-dealer , buying horses from tinkers and selling them on to English buyers . |
| 18 | After five terms I moved into Surrey to become head of the history department in Wallington County Grammar School for Boys and to work away for five years at doing what grammar schools were most proud of : helping boys to win awards at Oxford or Cambridge , urging ever-growing numbers of them successfully through public examinations , encouraging that sense of discipline and order which characterized the traditional Public and grammar school , wearing a gown , sustaining the prefect system . |
| 19 | Only Preston managed to save its commons from the vultures , and to transform some of them eventually into public parks . |
| 20 | Given the amount of time that the male has invested in his group of females , it is hardly surprising that he is ready to defend them vigorously against other males . |
| 21 | ‘ I had a tough childhood and it spurred me on to great heights . ’ |
| 22 | He had taken me on to smooth his path , and this I had done . |
| 23 | The feeling of being in the centre of things , of constant activity , of being in charge not only of a vehicle but its VIP occupant — or occupants — and the different venues to and from which she transported them all over southern England , appealed enormously to her restless nature and craving for excitement . |
| 24 | And there were you could see them all over British Railways . |
| 25 | All the big firms have strong international links that cushion them somewhat from domestic troubles . |
| 26 | So bear in mind photo opportunities and indeed getting photographs yourself and sending them in with appropriate captions to the magazine or newspaper and so on . |
| 27 | ‘ We may produce guidance to local authorities or call them in for private chats ’ . |
| 28 | We have been starved of second-hand cars because nobody was trading them in for new ones , but this should change that . ’ |
| 29 | It does n't cost you any more , you just throw them in for free . |
| 30 | They 're all just trying to push them in for free . |