Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [to-vb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which you used to light with a taper or something like that and they had little chains on to adjust your light . |
| 2 | Without warning , he 'd slowly reached his hand forward to touch her cheek , slid his fingers down to grasp her chin between his thumb and forefinger , tilting her face to the light . |
| 3 | Have you thought about getting a temp in to do her job , while she goes on a course ? |
| 4 | It would n't do for him to reveal the truth to Tyler Blacklock , because then that young man would no doubt turn heaven and earth upside down to find his sweetheart . |
| 5 | For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed . |
| 6 | Jane Pargeter was determined to look relaxed , Dexter thought , even though the number of times she kept bobbing her mouth down to sip her tea showed that she was not . |
| 7 | What one is supposed to do is put a screw in each side of the head , put on calipers and hang weights off to put their head in traction . |
| 8 | Tumbleweed put them in his pocket and we picked our rucksacks up to make our way to the station . |
| 9 | As Sharapour fell back it seemed for a moment as if he would get in the way of Mill Reef on the rails , but Lewis was alert to the perils of getting boxed in up the short Longchamp straight and pulled Mill Reef out to begin his challenge . |
| 10 | Without so much as a glance back to see his reaction to such an abrupt departure , Isabel scurried to the postern , yanked it open , and fled . |
| 11 | DRINKERS out to disguise their boozing are swigging £3.60 pints of garlic beer . |
| 12 | Roll your eyes back to slow your mind down . |
| 13 | They have their hind shoes removed , just in case they kick , but I leave their front shoes on to protect their hooves . |
| 14 | I shall probably still be here when you 're a buba sending your grandchildren over to spend their holidays with me ! ’ |
| 15 | Well he was probably actually hammering on the door now to er come and see where he 's going to put his ladders , he wanted er a bit of wall to put the brackets up to put his ladders but Paul said that he Paul thought you could suspend ropes from my garage roof , you remember what a lot of criss-cross bracing there is |
| 16 | Telling me to take my earring out to have my passport photos done . |
| 17 | Was the underdog about to have his day ? |
| 18 | Although insistent scolding , nagging and criticizing may be counter-productive , the effects of a really loud , convincing ‘ No ! ’ — the kind of short , sharp verbal ‘ shock ’ which a mother can produce when she sees her child about to poke her finger into her baby brother 's eye — may well be highly successful . |
| 19 | On difficult and urgent occasions — in 1356 , 1370 , 1371 , 1373 and twice in 1377 the king sent lay councillors and magnates along to exert their pressure upon the clergy . |
| 20 | We sent Martin over to operate our North American office because we produce a magazine that goes all over the world , and based in Canada he ran the office for us there and was doing a very good job . |
| 21 | As it was , she was very much aware of the healthy return of her appetite , so why cut her nose off to spite her stomach ? |
| 22 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 23 | If you decide you want a couple of days off to take your grandson shopping |
| 24 | He discovered that his nose was bleeding where Scruffy had scratched it + when he put a paw up to stroke his whiskers , he found that they were n't there ! |
| 25 | When she again hitched the linen up to ease its weight , he said , ‘ Well , I must be going . |
| 26 | ‘ Career breaks would enable women to choose to take five , six or seven years out to have their families but in that time they would be kept in touch , ’ said Miss Armstrong . |
| 27 | For example , TV stations about to close their books for the weekend often have some blank shots to dispose of at a bargain price . |
| 28 | Eli himself for the most part does not appear in a bad light , but as the one responsible for the proper functioning of the sanctuary , he is implicated in his sons ' guilt , is at one point accused of sharing their greed , and is doomed to share in great disgrace about to befall his family . |
| 29 | That 's just to put the water in to put your urine in you see . |
| 30 | It has been suggested that Lord Castlehaven 's case is authority for the proposition that a man can be liable for rape of his wife But Castlehaven was indicted as praesens , auxilians and confortans for holding his wife down to facilitate her rape by ‘ one of his minions . ’ |