Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alejandro and his son all stop horses with five-inch curbs and send them on with spurs about the same length . |
| 2 | Almost imperceptibly the practice began of signing them on for voyages to Britain , Europe and North America so that the numbers of Chinamen and Lascars on ships based in these areas gradually increased and with it the Chinese , Indian and half-caste population of such ports as Cardiff and Liverpool . |
| 3 | and the modern treatment is they put babies in splints , they lay them on like frames from splints and they 're strapped into them and they stay in them from anything up to a year , and babies do n't mind , but if you , if you think about it , if you do a double nappy |
| 4 | And for soon after that me father had to give up the mine be because of his health and he went to work at the depot er were the bus depot and he worked in the battery house where they made all the batteries up , charged the batteries for the buses , looked after the electrical side there was electrician , he were n't , me father were n't electrician but he was working with electrician but his main job was charging the batteries , putting them on in groups in the , in the er battery house and charging house , to keep all the batteries charged up for all the buses petrol buses tr and trolley buses . |
| 5 | This put me on to finals with the trim wound fully aft , and I was able to further check the aircraft 's inherent stability by moving hands and feet from the controls for several seconds — the Aircoupe continued down the slope as on rails ( there was little wind or turbulence ) before a gentle flare demonstrated another safety feature . |
| 6 | The illustrations were line drawings and she used to colour them in with crayons after each new plant had been correctly named . |
| 7 | To break them down into calls by type of station or something as simple as that . |
| 8 | She started to teach him rhymes and poems and then she would write them down on scraps of paper so that he could follow the letters through when he was on his own . |
| 9 | Position the six roses between the candles and stick them down with dabs of royal icing . |
| 10 | Arrange these around the edge of the cake , sticking them down with dots of jam . |
| 11 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 12 | Who needs to speak to me so urgently that they lie me down on myriads of pebbles by a sun-scorched sea in the southern part of England ? |
| 13 | Many a bunch of vigilante bully-boys would have worked them over into lumps of fillet steak , twitching and staining the carpet . |
| 14 | The best programs allow the teacher to gain basic skills in using them and to hand them over to pupils after a short introduction . |
| 15 | Shields , of Carnac Crescent , Inverness , was said to have felt so guilty that he gave himself up to police after selling some of the haul to pay for drink . |
| 16 | Simon bought up the costume store and set himself up in premises in Southwark , under the name Snogogram International . |
| 17 | Number eight forward Ken Tuta finds himself out of bounds after being sent off along with Portadown centre Michael Daly in yesterday 's match . |
| 18 | They were instructed to fob them off with promises in order to get them back to work as quickly as possible . |
| 19 | He ticked them off like items in a catalogue . |
| 20 | Implicitly , they have accepted many of the criticisms made for more than a decade by Labour councils and civil libertarians : that a force which has dug itself in behind ramparts of elitist isolationism must begin to respond to demands of the public it serves and their political representatives . |
| 21 | Your mind 's got a life of its own Wednesday and it will keep taking you off on flights of fancy and imaginative excursions . |
| 22 | Your mind 's got a life of its own Wednesday and it will keep taking you off on flights of fancy and imaginative excursions . |
| 23 | So it would pretty well train you up as engineers by the t by the time you 'd done that then ? |
| 24 | Men with nothing in their heads always filled them up with bits of women 's bodies . |
| 25 | Hollywood produced duds too , but could package them up with surefire-winners like the Chaplin shorts and insist that the cinema booker buy everything in the package . |
| 26 | He covers them up with sheets of plastic . |
| 27 | United 's game plan , with few refinements , is that which took them up behind Wolves in May : long balls from the back , incessant hustling in midfield , nine men behind the ball when the opposition have it . |
| 28 | For example , they transport schoolchildren to events in unmarked buses , or pick them up from locations outside West Belfast . |
| 29 | But what brought her to the point of retaliation was the sight of his hands mauling a plate of sliced mutton , digging his fingers into the pieces of meat and snatching them up and trying to screw them up like pieces of paper and hurl them at the bookcase . |
| 30 | I ran across one the other day that lifted me up on wings of heady prose , only to plunge me into the deep end of bathos . |