Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plopped himself down on the nearest chair . |
| 2 | Eventually , Joicey cornered him , and in desperation , the keeper threw himself out of the nearest open window ; landing ten feet below , with a badly sprained arm and sore head . |
| 3 | Mansell managed to negotiate himself out of the best car in Formula One , despite winning the world championship for the first time . |
| 4 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
| 5 | I do n't suppose I was more than 10 when the harvesters sent me off to the nearest pub to get some cider in a couple of bottles . |
| 6 | ‘ I want you to drop me off at the nearest hotel , ’ she told him in a strained voice . |
| 7 | The language is a bit spicy but it did n't put me off in the slightest . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm letting you in on the latest fashion and all you can do is accuse me of lying . |
| 9 | When you pick up the rec , the , the hands it will actually take you through to the nearest police control room area now , if it 's on the M eleven then most of the calls will go into Chelmsford , our police headquarters , once you cross over the borders and go into Metropolitan area , then that goes up to the Scotland Yard in their control rooms . |
| 10 | So , will you join me , or should I drop you off at the nearest station ? ’ |
| 11 | If you are not , and I have to stress this very carefully then they will call the nearest available garage and the garage will come there very quickly and they will tow you off into the nearest exit and there they will leave you and that can cost you probably , in excess of ninety pounds . |
| 12 | We 'll fix you up in the best hotel on the station . |
| 13 | We 'll fix you up in the best hotel on the station . |
| 14 | The feel of him inside her spread warmth through every part of her until her body relaxed completely and gave itself up to the purest pleasure . |
| 15 | GEC , under the guidance of Lord Weinstock , built itself up into the largest manufacturing employer in the UK , producing a wide range of products from telecommunications to defence electronics . |
| 16 | The water tanks will be covered and their insulation improved to bring them up to the latest standards . |
| 17 | He has , to switch metaphors , grabbed by the throat the Tories ' controversial team of young election campaign advisers , shaken them vigorously , and hung them up on the nearest meat hook . |
| 18 | Two days later he tells me : ‘ It 's like they want to copy everything down to the smallest detail . |
| 19 | Tina would have plumped herself down in the nearest seat even if this had been next to a passenger but Cecilia , conforming to usage , sat in the emptiest area of the coach , on the platform side with her back to the window . |
| 20 | ‘ You are all the same , ’ I had said — reducing her from an individual to a stereotype , lumping her in with the worst of the cherry berets . |
| 21 | There were even police standing in the wings ready to cart everybody off to the nearest station should the forbidden line be recited . |
| 22 | There were no relatives to travel with her to the grave , only strangers to see her off on the darkest of journeys . |
| 23 | If Kelly could see her now she 'd throw up her hands in horror and drag her off to the nearest restaurant to order the biggest meal on the menu . |
| 24 | Subsequently , he was often seen scratching at his groin on the set , and , guessing the nature of his problem , director Nicholas Ray marched him off to the nearest chemist for a healthy dose of crabocide . |
| 25 | It would pin him up against the nearest wall and try to eat his clothes , or chase him until his cries of fright attracted everyone 's amused attention . |
| 26 | If that had happened in my day , those players would have had him up against the nearest wall and sorted it out . |
| 27 | Endill followed him out into the biggest corridor he had ever seen . |
| 28 | There were some other guys featured but I definitely picked him out as the best . ’ |
| 29 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 30 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |