Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken them ages to get back from the Lock and now the evening was drawing in . |
| 2 | ‘ I think what I 'm asking for a pair of shoes is fair enough though I am keeping the prices low as an incentive for my customers to come back for more . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I would be the first person to tell my players to get on with the game because when you do n't do that , you are only upsetting your rhythm . |
| 4 | allowed my children to go out on trick or treat . |
| 5 | Inquisitive souls might wonder how I persuaded my publishers to go along with my plan . |
| 6 | My Lords to come back to what it said at the end , and this is what the Noble Lord , Lord Carrigan mentioned , it talks about one of six regional short listing panels . |
| 7 | ANGLIAN Water yesterday splashed out £36 million on a Swedish water engineering company as part of its attempts to diversify out of water supply . |
| 8 | The passion of his kisses on her throat were leaving her weak and she had to will her fingers to hold on to the bodice . |
| 9 | Usually , a stallion drives his sons out when they reach sexual maturity ( the fillies wander off , to be snapped up by some lucky bachelor ) ; but some stallions will allow their sons to stay on for years , co-opting their help in defensive action or mare-collecting raids . |
| 10 | Some financial planners have worked out another loophole , telling their clients to hang on to the part of their income paid in company shares , because taxes on capital gains are unlikely to rise under President Clinton and may even fall . |
| 11 | At the other end , Charity smiled and waited for her listeners to come back to her . |
| 12 | A diet which is bizarre or extreme may bring about weight loss if strictly adhered to but , as the brain draws on its reserves to make up for the deficiency in vital nutrients , the dieter is likely to become edgy , easily upset and to experience difficulty in making decisions . |
| 13 | CW to add this to a list of jobs which DCS to carry out in the near future . |
| 14 | The thought kept her silent as she walked along beside him , forced to quicken her steps to keep up with his long-legged strides . |
| 15 | Everyone felt it , and the air being still pregnant with prophecy and contention , everyone started and pricked attentive ears , and several opened their eyes to look round towards the source of this abrupt wind from the outer world . |
| 16 | Lisa took a deep breath , crossing her fingers — perhaps it had sounded worse than it was ! — and forced her eyes to slide round towards the Bentley . |
| 17 | break her legs to get out of them ! |
| 18 | Her knees were weak , and she sat down on a chair the press rep brought over for her ; she could not have trusted her legs to walk over to it . |
| 19 | She wants her readers to think out for themselves what she is saying . |
| 20 | She felt pressured and persuaded her clients to sell out of stocks they 'd picked up from various licensed dealers . |
| 21 | In a unique demonstration they left their schools to sit in on a county council meeting discussing the cuts.Tim Hurst reports . |
| 22 | Apparently Katharine is now bullying her parents to go back to Catherston for some more lessons ! |
| 23 | This is a cut-and-thrust spectacle where as many as 24 kites out of 25 have been cast off , their lines to float down in defeat within twenty minutes . |
| 24 | They tend to rely on their parents to put up with the drudgery of queues and are only interested in capitalism and the rewards it can bring . |
| 25 | In Les Patineurs and Les Rendezvous Ashton makes his dancers travel upwards as well in an effort to show off their abilities to keep up with the music and beat each other to the exit . |
| 26 | The division of work between the private profession and the law centre has not been based entirely on the choice of clients in deciding which problems to bring in to the law centre . |
| 27 | With a massive effort she tried to fight him off , but he had locked his hands behind her neck , and all her efforts to squirm out of his grasp were useless . |
| 28 | In a broadcast speech on July 26 marking the 38th anniversary on the assault on the Moncada barracks , a landmark in the Cuban revolution , President Fidel Castro called on the population to redouble their efforts to stand up to the continuing economic blockade by the United States and to the economic and political collapse of the Eastern bloc , characterizing the latter as a " disaster " [ see p. 38229 ] . |
| 29 | Henry Kissinger recognized that Romanian co-operation could be useful to the United States in its efforts to get out of the Vietnam War and to open up relations with Mao 's China . |
| 30 | With a sinking heart she arranged for her things to come up by an outside porter , and then set off for home . |