Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You , you , do n't he said , I 'll down to you , I said I do n't bleeding first ! |
| 2 | I had to get everything I could out of this time . |
| 3 | He told me , ‘ I got as much as I could out of my workers . |
| 4 | Panic throbbed through my body and , if I had n't been made of sterner stuff , I would have dug spurs into my horse and galloped as fast as I could back to Ipswich . |
| 5 | Gradgrind 's becoming an MP in Hard Times gives him further opportunity for satire : Parliament figures as ‘ the national cinder-heap ’ ( HT ii 11 ) where the MPs , ‘ the national dustmen ’ , get up ‘ a great many noisy little fights amongst themselves ’ ( HT ii 12 ) , and the image recurs in Our Mutual Friend when CD apostrophizes the nation 's legislators : ‘ My lords and gentlemen and honourable boards , when you in the course of your dust-shovelling and cinder-raking have piled up a mountain of pretentious failure , you must off with your honourable coats for the removal of it , and fall to work … or it will come rushing down and bury us alive ’ ( OMF iii 8 ) . |
| 6 | Bill come out er a here with car you know you could round with pub |
| 7 | oh he said you could out with that Pakkie . |
| 8 | Well erm it was a sticky bus you know , er a field in Winter , it was just er bare soil , there was n no no grass on it and with the cart trudging back and forth , getting towards er a gateway , you would up to your knees in mud you know . |
| 9 | Er it 's just a thought to say well if I , if , if this training is so important I will use it over and over again , it makes sense to save the preparation time four or five months down the line by having a script and now only you can up with your examples . |
| 10 | generally speaking I think you can up to about half time without having any effect on your re- employment earnings . |
| 11 | So you can up to the colliery and see if you can get one there . |
| 12 | It varies considerably you can have eight you can up to fourteen except fifteen why , how many do you want in ? |
| 13 | Find out as much as you can about till procedure in your shop/a shop you know . |
| 14 | But if you can out about the trailer |
| 15 | ‘ Make the tallest tower that you can out of newspaper ’ or ‘ list ten things that a good teacher does ’ are approaches of engaging your audience and making the meeting more lively . |
| 16 | Secondly , you will best get there by squeezing all you can out of every position you hold and out of the experience of every man you serve or meet : pick their brains , study their successes and their failures ; never be afraid to ask questions or put new ideas , but do not get upset or angry if they are not accepted at first , and do not assume that the other man 's judgment is wrong . |
| 17 | Do n't , do n't be put off by that , erm , just , you know , grab whatever you can out of it . |
| 18 | Well I r , I r , I reckon I reckon you can down to that , yeah . |
| 19 | I think we 'll along with a . |
| 20 | ‘ I would have preferred to have given them a run chase but I then decided we had to be positive and get whatever we could out of the match , ’ said Moxon . |
| 21 | Our job is to shake and lift everyone we can out of his rut — to seek the wisdom and salvation of the Almighty before it is too late . |
| 22 | They said it was like a box you know , and they could up to tremendous heights , putting I do n't know how many layers . |
| 23 | This landed wealth of Egypt was , later in the fifth century , exploited by rentier Iranian landowners who screwed all they could out of the local peasants : their demands are preserved in Aramaic on leather documents bought in Egypt in 1943–4 and now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford . |
| 24 | Young servant girls paid whatever they could out of their often scanty wages to their families . |
| 25 | Somehow they regrouped and recouped their losses , making as much as they could out of their connection with the king 's court , and rebuilding their followings by recruiting men to their retinues and councils on a less feudal basis , distributing money rents and patronage instead of knights ' fees . |
| 26 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 27 | If you are not working , do not give up all your time to charitable work — you will be worn out , for voluntary work is a bottomless pit and those who run charities freely admit that they squeeze every last drop of help that they can out of people . |
| 28 | The argument is that people can not construct socialism out of kitsch ( sometimes with the equally problematic implication that they can out of art ) . |
| 29 | With a fast growing population , virtually no international aid , and a devastating war to get over , the Vietnamese need to wring as much productivity as they can out of every patch of serviceable land and every drop of water . |
| 30 | What they mean by ’ reviewing ’ their commercial strategy is that , because they will have to dispose of 11,000 tied houses , they are determined to squeeze every penny they can out of those that remain . |