Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luib had laid Madra down on a faded red couch . |
| 2 | ‘ I made her face the truth , ’ he grated , laying Isabel down on a bench by the door . |
| 3 | Matthew had reached the woods and he slowed Bess down to a walk and bent down and caressed her neck . |
| 4 | To believe them , Karen and I shanghaied the shrinking Dennis on to a punt by some underhand ruse worthy of a ‘ once-aboard-the-lugger-and-the-maid-is-mine ’ melodrama . |
| 5 | Leila began the trance induction , taking Ari down into a deep , relaxed state . |
| 6 | " Take Tristram along as a younker , and let it be known in the village you 're doing so . |
| 7 | On the last day Seve birdied the first hole and Hale took a six on the second , I can remember the scoring because in those days I had to mark all the cards , and I remember putting Irwin down for a six — and then the card blew in to the bunker on the second and I had to go chasing after it . |
| 8 | I then had to send Malcolm and Neil down with a rented truck to pick the machine up . |
| 9 | ‘ Clare 's seeing Sam and Josh off for a day on the speedboat . |
| 10 | She was refused entry at the dentist on formal hygiene regulation grounds , and luckily , oh so luckily , I 'd met an old friend in a shop opposite the dentist so he took Bella off for a walk . |
| 11 | ‘ You want me to put Cindy Hill up for a night ? ’ |
| 12 | In desperation he faked a dive and hauled the SE up on a tight loop . |
| 13 | According to Melbourne Sunday Press reporter Dennis Williams , the paper interviewed a hypnotist , Mr Bill Bakha , who claimed to have taken Kylie back to a former life as a waif called Caitrin in 19th century Ireland . |
| 14 | It is a shame that there are no photographs but each chapter begins with a Tom Price sketch and the text marks Sylvie out as a skilled travel writer rather than just a traveller who writes , a thoroughly good read . |
| 15 | They kept Orrell out with a lot of judgement and a bit of luck . |
| 16 | I have n't had Toby out for a while . |
| 17 | In any case , he said , picking up arguments , I was n't insured , did n't have a competition licence , the circuit management would n't like it , what would Tom Walkinshaw and Benetton say if I took Martin Brundle out in a ball of fire ? … |
| 18 | She had this absurd desire to swing Lucy round like a child and walk holding her hand . |
| 19 | Following his seventh-minute penalty goal , it was the lively Fox 's probing kick to the corner which set up Karl Fairbank to put Kiwi centre Darrall Shelford over for a try . |
| 20 | Philosophy always has begun from Athens on from a recognition of the extraordinary facts of the diversity of human belief and attitude , on moral questions , on questions of social organization , on questions as to the ultimate nature of the universe , the destiny of man , and all such things , the most astonishing diversity of belief and attitude has prevailed and still does prevail amongst people . |
| 21 | pass the SPR on to a different , more appropriate user who will answer it . |
| 22 | pass the SPR on to a different , more appropriate user who will answer it . |
| 23 | Victorine put Léonie on to a chair , the bread on to a board , the knife to the crust . |
| 24 | ‘ Your father 'e can go smoke , ’ Madame retorted , sitting Ellie down in a chair . |
| 25 | Allan Lamb looked to be guiding England through with a gutsy 55 before popping a catch to wicketkeeper Moin Khan . |
| 26 | It seems incomprehensible that the NZRFU could spend thousands of dollars , for example , to bring Russia over for a ‘ vodka and caviar ’ tour and yet could not find the pennies needed to foot the bill of their world champion students . |
| 27 | RECORD-BREAKER Colin Clarke set Northern Ireland off on a World Cup romp in Belfast last night . |
| 28 | He sets Ireland up as a type of extreme place — a place possibly cursed in its very soil or divinely reserved to act as a scourge for England . |
| 29 | Actually , the family lived at Trebyan up to a few months before I was born , then they moved next door to be near the shop . ’ |
| 30 | If the poll tax really became a tax on voting , was it non-registering residents , rather than any enthusiasm for Major or Lang , that pushed the Tory percentage in Scotland up from a poll average of about 21 to an actual 25.5 per cent , and proportionately diminished the impact of the Labour and SNP campaigns ? |