Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you have to admit you do look very young and innocent , so you ca n't blame me for putting on the Big Daddy bit . ’ |
| 2 | She had a go at me for pulling out a You know you Just er the other week we walked from where was it ? |
| 3 | ‘ But how can President Aquino overhaul the leadership of the armed forces after she has already commended them for putting down the coup ? ’ asks a congressman and former military officer , Mr Bonifacio Gillego . |
| 4 | Do use them for mopping up the blood on the new road . |
| 5 | And er , I thought I 'd probably have wall paper on that wall , you know , use , use the curtains just as plenty of fullness , but have them for keeping out the light or keeping in the heat , |
| 6 | A team of police officers swooped on the men 's home in Penny Lane at 9am yesterday and arrested them after breaking down the front door . |
| 7 | He accuses them of running up a hundred million pound debt during their years in control , and says the Tories are wrong to go along with them . |
| 8 | Havers , whose Charmer character in the hit ITV series would have thought nothing of ripping off a needy mother , told the BBC he was touched by her story and wanted to give her a happy Christmas . |
| 9 | The Doctor struggled to keep himself from slipping down the glowing tunnel , which he had entered first . |
| 10 | Sivell seems to have the old and young balanced quite well and he will have to stop himself from dusting down the mantlepiece once more . |
| 11 | Dr Craig-Dunlop , who owns it , prides himself on having all the latest equipment . ’ |
| 12 | By Oct. 14 he had resigned himself to submitting merely the question of proxy voting by husbands to the seven-member Constitutional Council set up in 1989 . |
| 13 | He comes , and after a heated discussion he commits himself to closing down the factory by 1992 . |
| 14 | The last remark is odd : her half-brother Charles certainly killed himself by jumping off a bridge , and it is unlikely that the deaths of her sisters ‘ Topsy ’ and ‘ Baby ’ were due to an accidental overdose of veronal . |
| 15 | It was on this stretch of line near Didcot that William McCrae tried to kill himself by jumping off a train travelling at nearly seventy miles an hour . |
| 16 | Consequently , he is continually having to hold on to a sense of humility while he listens to other people , otherwise he can too easily defend himself by taking up a judgemental posture . |
| 17 | He redeemed himself by sending over a good cross for P Reid to put the Olympic in front . |
| 18 | She warned me against noticing only the differences between life in the Indian sub-continent and in England and she warned me about being seduced by the apparent ‘ exoticness ’ of it all . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's nothing like trudging round a cold church to raise an appetite , Mr Barnett . |
| 20 | Be careful not to qualify praise ( do not , for instance , say , ‘ Thank you for taking out the rubbish — why do n't you do that all the time ? ’ ) . |
| 21 | The RMI will certainly help you in working out a QDM , since the pointers indicate your QDM and no calculation is necessary . |
| 22 | The Company devoted itself to building up a substantial trade in pepper which , while not as valuable as the most expensive products of the Spice Islands like nutmeg and cloves , still commanded a very steady market in Europe . |
| 23 | After this he can carry any other vector parallel to itself by travelling along a geodesic and keeping the local vector at a constant angle to the geodesic . |
| 24 | The main problem about this option is the logistic one of getting together the hundreds of different catalogues ( especially those of the small publishers ) necessary to ensure comprehensiveness . |
| 25 | It is something like ripping off a plaster . |
| 26 | Something above moving over a smooth sea prompted Monsoon to chatter . |
| 27 | There 's lots of fun to be had at camp — everything from cooking over an open fire to building gadgets out of sticks and string and singing round the camp fire . |
| 28 | It also prevents one from churning out the same stuff of conversation over a long period to different people ( to use words at people ) which is using those people as hard reflective surfaces and not , as I feel properly , soft digestive reflective surfaces . |
| 29 | Of course night calls are usually made in a crisis and the help normally available in residential homes may make it easier to cope with a minor one without calling out a doctor . |
| 30 | He therefore sees effective RE as essentially helping to liberate all pupils " from the taboos which inhibit them from exploring freely the experiential and cognitive options available " ( Hay 1990 : 109 ) . |