Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But we do take some of them on for work experience — we have to remember that we 'll always need a pool of new photographers to choose from . ’
2 When I knit a stocking stitch tension square , instead of marking the 21st stitch on each side of centre 0 on the 30th row , I transfer these stitches at the beginning of the swatch , placing them on to needle number 22 on each side and pushing the empty 21st needles to non-working position .
3 Every station sent in the reports in code and we collected them and sent them on to Bomber Command Headquarters .
4 Noel 's Garden Party will be packing them in at Haydock Park for two days over the August Bank Holiday .
5 Remove old , unproductive fruit trees by cutting them down to shoulder height before using the stump as a lever to help dig out all the roots .
6 I took them down to Paradise Park for sexing .
7 ‘ Shall I bring them down to Water Gypsy this evening , or will you come up to Chimneys to see them ? ’
8 For example , if a customer needs an altimeter , PAS can supply the complete article , but if a customer needs just part of the instrument , they are willing to break them down into component form to ensure that the customer gets just what he wants .
9 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) in California , for instance , was once a naval air station , where in more innocent days the ground crews cleaned engines by hosing them down with carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethane ( TCE ) .
10 A crowd gathered and shouted at the police , provoking another baton charge which forced them down towards Butcher Gate and the Bogside .
11 He put me in at centre half and I 've played virtually every game since .
12 Jamie walks me down to Brockley Cross , inhaling fresh air through his nostrils like Islanders sniff cocaine .
13 We shall contrive some way however to get me down to Maitland town and the end of the week , when I shall make my way to Hobart Town the best way I can .
14 You , Rambo , come and play soldiers with me down on Jollity Farm .
15 Defeat left Everton with a far from comfortable eight point cushion above the relegation zone and Kendall said : ‘ We defended well most of the time but let ourselves down in injury time .
16 Everyone who goes on assignment has a Career Manager , someone back at home base chartered to keep the assignee informed , happy , plugged-in — and to make sure he ( or even she ) comes back to a suitable job .
17 She had given up work to have the children and she 'd seen them through to school age , when she 'd gone out and found herself another job .
18 Yeah , because they put them through to crime prevention department ,
19 If you would like to be more ambitious with your finish , try the methods described in the ‘ Encyclopaedia of Cottage , Farm and Villa Architecture and Furniture ’ by J C Loudon , first published in 1833 : ‘ These chairs are painted but more frequently stained with dilute sulphuric acid and logwood ; or by repeatedly washing them over with alum water , which has some tartar in it ; they should afterwards be washed over several times with an extract of Brazil wood .
20 I mean they were lovely boots I mean a pair of water boots three pounds twelve and six and we used to put them , er make 'em soft , we used to do them over with text oil .
21 Tim sprang to public prominence when personal letters he wrote to the Princess were stolen from her briefcase and offered for sale to a tabloid newspaper , which promptly handed them over to Scotland Yard .
22 No we 've got them coming over on Sunday and she said oh do n't do anything special just do sandwiches , oh you invite them over for Sunday lunch , cos she 's a vegetarian , except she eats chicken and vegetarian that eats a chicken
23 Sceptical officers thought he was trying to pass himself off as motor racing 's world champ .
24 When Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters ( 1866 ) has been to visit the Towers , her father declares that he had expected to find her so ‘ polite and ceremonious ’ that he read a few chapters of Sir Charles Grandison in order to bring himself up to concert pitch .
25 An 'A'-Level Art student has invented a new style of sculpture … by wrapping himself up in chicken wire .
26 Meanwhile Gary Owers has launched himself back into Wembley contention for the Rokermen .
27 For many pupils their experience in school will have been mainly or solely with metric units and their out of school experience mainly with Imperial units .
28 Six weeks ago they sent me off to Paisley College in Scotland to make a radio report on a new course at its Alcohol Studies Centre : the intoxication workshop .
29 When I had left him for Bath , he had said , sadly , seeing me off at Salamanca station : ‘ I should have come with you when your father died .
30 I 'll take you on at seine netting .
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