Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bright Eyes : you can keep shampoo out of babies ' eyes by smearing a line of Vaseline just above their eyebrows . |
| 2 | It 's functional and cheap and takes the work out of mothers ' work — the opposite of the colour supplements ' fascination with food and its production and the backlash against junk food , which present a chic counterculture of cooking not as work but as leisure and pleasure . |
| 3 | The sending off of Rangers ' Mark Hateley , which came in between the opening goal from Ian Durrant and an equaliser from Lorenzo Staelens , was questionable in the extreme . |
| 4 | to move excess stocks on to retailers ' shelves ; |
| 5 | they 've got a place down at Markets ai n't they ? |
| 6 | They too drain the vitality out of women 's tears and replace them with passivity , penance and guilt . |
| 7 | Prior to the launch of Compaq 's DeskPro/M series he upgraded from 286s to 386SX computers by shuffling the older machines on to secretaries ' desks . |
| 8 | Figures like these have taken much of the fizz out of brewers ' forecasts . |
| 9 | It remains to be seen whether or not Darren Jackson will recover from the stomach injury which kept the striker out of Hibs ' Cup win over Cowdenbeath . |
| 10 | In a few short weeks the scoops had torn a channel twenty feet wide from end to end , ripping the backbone out of Adventurers ' Fen … |
| 11 | Despite playing chess on Top Of The Pops and beaming lasers on to buildings à la Jean Michel Jarre , they are far less analytical of their impact than might be expected . |
| 12 | But a Northumbrian Water spokesman said yesterday the confusion had arisen because Middlesbrough Council had chosen not to continue collecting water payments along with tenants ' house rents . |
| 13 | ‘ You ca n't pussyfoot around with children 's welfare . ’ |
| 14 | And from Quotable Women : ‘ I 'll read almost anything I can get my hands on from women 's magazines to Dickens . |
| 15 | All kinds of hand tools , ranging from picks , mattocks and shovels down to builders ' pointing trowels and even teaspoons and paintbrushes , are used . |
| 16 | Yes , yeah , yeah it 's like er breakfast cereals are good for you in a way that they 've got all the vitamins in for kids ai n't they ? |
| 17 | Read on to see how well each pair measures up to makers ' claims . |
| 18 | So Marko told her that he had been ordered to build a tower out of elephants ' tusks . |
| 19 | Keep alcoholic drinks out of children 's reach . |
| 20 | Pace the unjustified slur , naming 10 famous Belgians is easy , even if the Singing Nun , the Mannekin Pis and Hercule Poirot are declared ineligible ( and Jacques Brel counts five of most other countries ' famous people in our book ) — and there could just be another one soon , in the person of Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt , who could become the father of a whole new economics after his proposal that Belgium levy a robot tax on factory machines to get humans back to work : it 's a great idea , and why not take it further and ban construction machinery from the roads to get the shovels back into navvies ' hands — and no doubt computers can be included under the tax , so that in no time , in a dramatic return to Victorian values , while the Belgian economy may not actually start booming , the country will have the world 's biggest quill pen industry . |
| 21 | ‘ What reason did he give you for coming all the way over to Otters ' Bay when he could perfectly well have slept in his boat ? ’ |
| 22 | By September 700 employees out of Chemicals ' 2,300-strong workforce will have completed the two-day EHO course and sat an examination . |