Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [coord] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that something you can easily forget , pulling a man 's trousers on when he 's got handcuffs on and lying on his front ? |
| 2 | What they , yes , what they done , they used to have a large long pull with a hook on and attached to a rope and as the ship was coming up to the river , they would throw this here pole on to a ship with a hook and then pay the rope out and then get towed up to the quay , the ship would n't stop for them to pick them up , pick that boat |
| 3 | She looked at them for a moment with pleasure and then set the bucket down and turned to Murphy . |
| 4 | Bardsley put his teacup down and said in a melancholy voice , ‘ I was thinking of taking him into partnership , but business has n't been that good lately . |
| 5 | foot down and get past him and out the way . |
| 6 | Even though Stevens still needed Dean for a couple more shots , the young punk put his foot down and tore along Highway 66 at 85 miles an hour , heading for a sports car race at Salinas . |
| 7 | Yet it 's a theory without logic : if you 'd just had an Austin Utterly Dependable break down and fall to bits , would you really want another one ? |
| 8 | The cab came from a Massey-Ferguson 1200 and cost £600 , and a solid steel radiator surround from the same model was turned upside down and fitted to the new tractor . |
| 9 | She turns it upside down and looks at it again . |
| 10 | You must then perform a small conjuring trick — holding all the layers of the picture firmly together , turn the frame and picture upside down and place on the table , then fix on the hardboard back . |
| 11 | ‘ Just get your heads down and go for it , ’ was Nicholl 's message to his players yesterday . |
| 12 | For the first time we 've had to get our heads down and look at what we 're doing . |
| 13 | Er they have well just the same as er some of these weight reducers. they 'll take the weight down but look at the side effects . |
| 14 | It seemed a long moment while they remained thus immobile and then the young woman put her head and shoulders down and rushed like an eight-year-old , knees doubling up and arms pounding . |
| 15 | The kids at my new school all went round in little gangs , spoiling for a fight — nothing serious , just pushing other kids over and jeering at them . |
| 16 | like , I 'd turn the telly off and listen to their music sometimes |
| 17 | I got into bed , turned the light off and lay with just the fire lighting the room . |
| 18 | Stephen turned the main light off and returned to his father 's desk . |
| 19 | The secretary of state for foreign affairs still retained , as did his fellow secretaries for war , the navy and the maison du roi , ultimate responsibility for the administration of a group of French provinces ; and each of the four still acted as general secretary to the king , in the drawing up and despatching of official documents of all kinds , for three months in the year . |
| 20 | Impelled by instinct , Rachaela took the drawing up and stared at it . |
| 21 | On the afternoon of New Year 's Day we reached the road end , picked the car up and returned to Queenstown . |
| 22 | I think there 's got to be determination , consistency , the ability to listen to other people and then make your mind up and stick to it . |
| 23 | In a split second he made his mind up and decided to be decisive . |
| 24 | Praxis says it is well down the development road of getting an ANDF installer up on another RISC , possibly the Inmos Transputer , whilst there are known to be several other key players keen to get installers up and running on their kit too ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ For cutting animals up and disposing of them in a public place . ’ |
| 26 | He stared down at his knees , then stretched his legs out and gazed at his calves and feet . |
| 27 | ‘ I backed the car out and drove past the police station . |
| 28 | The improved colt quickened well to take it up over two furlongs out and went to the line clear of the dead-heaters Steinbeck and Wilde Rufo , with the latter subsequently disqualified when jockey Richard Quinn weighed in 6lb light . |
| 29 | However , I 'll stick me neck out and go for Leeds 3 Swindon 1 ( pen probably ) just to spoil my record ; - ] . |
| 30 | And I think it 's very important that people can come and talk to you and some representative 's of the board because there is unrest Tom and I 'm not prepared to stick my neck out and say in what quarter this lies but it can be got over it can be ironed out because running a theatre is to do with team spirit and that team spirit get 's conveyed to the public . |