Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He walked me slowly out to the garden gate — a kindly old man , more interested in his trees and his plans for the palace , his rowing and his cycling than in the ruder demands of his people for democracy and good government . |
2 | Derby County needed a win against Crystal Palace to put them right up with those early leaders . |
3 | Then she felt the coverlet being pulled off the bed and João was on top of her and his sweet breath was in her face and his mouth over her mouth ; he was forcing her legs apart until she thought she would split ; he was trying to lift them right up over his shoulders , and at the same time trying to enter where she was impossibly small , cursing at his lack of success and finally grunting and gasping , until she felt a little damp fountain on her belly and he rolled off the bed and pattered quickly from the room . |
4 | And Leicester to get the win that will keep them right up amongst the leading clubs . |
5 | The answer came suddenly , a slap in the face that made her wince : because , on the only occasion when Merrill had actually confronted him with her suspicions — had brought them right out into the open — she had n't given him a chance to explain . |
6 | The wind had an icy tang to it : it swirled about them right down to their feet , disturbing any loose leaves it could find ; and for a minute or two its voice was the only sound they heard , until Charlie 's broke into it , saying , ‘ Well , do n't worry , at least about me . |
7 | Well I , we do mainly , but what we do is , we , we cut them , when they die off , we cut them right down under ground |
8 | If this happens , it is usually better to leave things for that year , and to take them right down after the next flowering . |
9 | Anybody could have kissed me and I 'd have kissed them right back with interest . |
10 | Montgomery too had paused to reorganize his lines of communication , but planned a final assault to dislodge the Afrika Korps and drive them right back into Tunisia in December . |
11 | And three more points takes them right back into the battle for the promotion play-off . |
12 | The first and best example of the ‘ hard-boiled ’ thriller , with private dick Sam Spade chewing off chunks of lousy life in a lousy world , and spitting them right back in your face . |
13 | Blackburn 's first win in eight matches , 2–1 over Millwall after being a goal down , kept them in the play-off hunt but a Swindon win at FA Cup finalists Sunderland tomorrow could see them right back in contention . |
14 | Putting his hands on her shoulders , he drew them slowly down over the full curves , feeling , weighing , drawing a fingertip across the tightening nipples . |
15 | Lucille Walker had n't brought me clear over to Hollywood just to tell me I 'd been played for a sucker . |
16 | The problem of the private beds gave rise to a violence of dispute which seemed to me wholly out of proportion to the magnitude of the issue . |
17 | " Not every minute , " I said , and then he took my hands and pulled me right up to him . |
18 | She said no more and as soon as they arrived at Broom House she said , ‘ No need to take me right up to the house — I can walk up the drive . ’ |
19 | ‘ It put me right up in the mood again , I 'd forgotten about that sort of intensity . |
20 | And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees . |
21 | Warhurst said : ‘ Ray rang me right out of the blue at 5pm on Thursday afternoon to say the deal was back on again and would I come to Blackburn . |
22 | So I did just ask him er just come to me right out of the blue when he was here one night . |
23 | If he 's married to my daughter that 'll kick-start me right back in the business , but if you wo n't play your part in all of this then I 'm just as happy to bring him down … ’ |
24 | And before Mala could lash at him again , he explained , and terrified me right down to my boots . |
25 | The girl , the lean teenager with W-shaped folds in the vent of her shut armpits , she would suit me right down to the ground . |
26 | So that put me right off for a start . |
27 | One took me rather out of my way , before turning at last , at right angles , up the hill and home ; but it was the main road and was lit . |
28 | You could also erm , start to recognize the benefit of the rural sector , and one reason why they were discriminating , L D Cs tended to want to ignore that and sort of shun it , because it 's not sort of a glamorous image they were trying to hope for in the urban sector , and , so , if they did help them , say give them units , like the repair men , units to work in , and they put them in really totally crappy accommodation , and up not where you need it , and not where people pass by with their motors and things , they , they 'd put them somewhere up on a hill , overlooking a city , so erm , to encourage the informal sector by erm , sort of on a par with the formal sector because erm , their inter- reacting , inter-relating now , like they 're providing cheap inputs for the formal industries and , and the formal industries are pro providing clientele all for the informal sector , and so it 's all inter-linked and , and it 's there now . |
29 | It 's , what they 've done is they 've closed er er , erm branch , an office massive office in London and they 've moved them all over to Leeds because they ca n't get the people to take jobs in London so they 've transferred it all to Leeds , and erm there 's a chance of erm getting promotion , well , a very good chance of getting promotion down there . |
30 | It reawakened his curiosity , the fact that Blackbeard had been willing to hand them all over for getting back a wallet that otherwise contained only a letter . |