Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing . |
| 2 | It is pesticide-free and traps male moths by luring them on to a sticky pad with the aid of a sex attractant ( a pheromene lure capsule ) given off by female moths to attract a mate . |
| 3 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
| 4 | The reason for this may well be that the hospital consultant is reluctant to let go medical responsibility for former patients and thrust them on to a local GP , but he is not normally easily available when off duty or working in a clinic many miles away . |
| 5 | ’ You put me on to a good thing , ’ he went on , ’ with Ardakke . |
| 6 | My brother could make me cry just by lifting me on to a five-foot-high garden trellis and leaving me there , so I was hardly a miniature Chris Bonnington . |
| 7 | Connie buzzed them in for a joyous greeting from Hurley , Colonel John Sasser , the Defense attaché , and one of Buck Revell 's FBI team , but there was n't much time for celebration because Hamadan was wanted elsewhere for debriefing . |
| 8 | Of course , this may lead them to run onto the rotted wood , which will give way and let them in for a long fall … |
| 9 | Making a stock of suitable pictures and then sending them in at a steady trickle to the news editor throughout the year gives your children 's work a good chance of being chosen . |
| 10 | And these people took them in cleaned them up put them in like a bloody sheet , and all sorts he said |
| 11 | Even when reviews do exist , tracking them down for a particular title can be difficult . |
| 12 | As regards yeomen the statistics serve chiefly to emphasise the difficulty of pinning them down to a precise definition . |
| 13 | She forced herself to eat some more dry biscuits and chocolate , washing them down with a small amount of water . |
| 14 | A single-track lane had taken them down through a straggling copse to a brackish meander of the Beaulieu river and Mossop had stopped the car just short of the cottage so they could see the building , the garden , the overgrown jetty which had given it its name and the shadowed finger of the pontoon reaching out into deeper water , without themselves being seen at all . |
| 15 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 16 | Then she carried the basket to the washing line and unpegged the clothes rapidly , chucking them down in a windblown tangle ( Ella folded things as she took them out of the tumble drier . |
| 17 | I recited the names of some relations and friends , and my mother wrote them down in a businesslike fashion until I ran out of ideas . |
| 18 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 19 | But if you want your life story to grip them by the throat and take them along for a rattling good ride which will haunt them for years to come — forget it . |
| 20 | put me in for a lovely red for me . |
| 21 | They did come in , and it took seven of them to get me down to a single cell . |
| 22 | Well knock me down with a naked Klingon ! |
| 23 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
| 24 | Marks me down as a prime strategic thinker , and no mistake . ’ |
| 25 | I was very new on the wing and someone in for a bad sex offence talked about their crime and I was badly affected . |
| 26 | D c c could you have visualized any way in which production could have been controlled apart from his down about a certain amount ? |
| 27 | We have to think ourselves back into a social system and culture very different from our own if we are to respond , in the way P. C. Wren required , to the improbable events and exalted sentiments of the three Geste brothers who , to serve their adored aunt and their fraternal obligations , vanished into the Foreign Legion , taking upon themselves the imputation of having stolen the blue diamond which she had long ago sold and replaced by a fake for the sake of her extravagant husband . |
| 28 | You sound like someone out of a corny film ! ’ |
| 29 | I felt like someone out of a pop song , revisiting the haunts of childhood , going to see an old sweetheart , not knowing if they would still be there or not , hoping against hope that they might . |
| 30 | ABERDEEN flirted with disaster at Kilbowie last night before two goals in the final 15 minutes from Scott Booth took them through to a Scottish Cup semi-final against Hibs at Tynecastle on 3 April . |