Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |
| 2 | You got off the hook very easily there , Ian . |
| 3 | I just got off the plane here and fell in love with the place , so I stayed . |
| 4 | When I eventually got off the bus back in Maseru I nearly collapsed , such was my weakness . |
| 5 | She got off the ground so quickly with her public relations it was squashed almost before it came to life . " |
| 6 | AN Anglo-Russian company got off the ground yesterday to run production and sales of a Rolls-Royce-powered Tupolev airliner . |
| 7 | And then in between , I was to go round with him , say in the afternoons or some mornings , and he had heard about a fox somewhere . |
| 8 | They had heard about the blessing there , they had heard about the healing , the deliverance , the joy , yet nobody had received the Holy Spirit . |
| 9 | After the show the band chill out in the car park , meeting Carpettes from around 16 , who got in on borrowed ID , to those in their mid-20s sucking on roaches who have just heard about the band along with The Charlatans UK ( ! ) and want their logo in felt tip on a T-shirt . |
| 10 | Theda 's eyes remained closed as the lumbering stagecoach rumbled its way from Newark , where she had caught it outside the Saracen 's Head , to Ashby-de-la-Zouch , where it would remain for the night before proceeding to Stafford . |
| 11 | There 's a lot to be done if cases are to be taken to court , but the last thing Thames Water will want during the run up to privatisation is a long , drawn out damages claim where the point at issue is the safety of the water in the tap . |
| 12 | Right , well let's just think for a minute exactly what you just said , can you repeat to me roughly what you 've just said ? |
| 13 | Then the men-at-arms under the two banners , the King 's and the Earl 's , had waited outside , and the rest had got round the gate and walked talking inside : the King Macbeth with less meat on him , like a man who fed at sea , and Siward of Northumbria the way he always was , with his chest round as a shield under his tunic , and only his hair and beard greyer than you would think for a man not much past fifty . |
| 14 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 15 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 16 | If it was n't the Russians , it was the British who wanted to interfere ; so I said , I am going away to wait for the day when once again an Austrian can decide when an Austrian may conduct music in his own country . |
| 17 | The concept clearly was meant to establish a College in the broad sense of a learned foundation , whereas what emerged almost inevitably , from the actual circumstances of its establishment and funding , degenerated into what was to remain for a century basically and predominantly a horse infirmary . |
| 18 | I hope it will bring a few people along to the network who will stay for the music afterwards . ’ |
| 19 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 20 | I do n't honestly know , he said er , he 's got to go in for his test , he said , and then I 'll have to see about a car so I do n't know whether they 're gon na buy him one or not |
| 21 | This layout was a physical expression of the administrative structure that Hammond was organizing for the office particularly , as Mary Anderson points out , the special status awarded to the Under Secretaries and their political departments , by placing them on the same level as the Secretary of State . |
| 22 | They stood there , breathless , as the steps came nearer , stopped for a moment outside then turned up the corridor . |
| 23 | The second option is to sell the property along with the company but ensure that the price received for the company fully reflects the range of values for the assets . |
| 24 | In light of the prohibitive estimates received for the fencing off of the play area and the laying of rubber slabs around the sand pit the nursery staff have decided to go ahead with their own restricted plans . |
| 25 | We got through a bag in about fivepence so it 's not bad . |
| 26 | I should think you probably just about got through the toast possibly . |
| 27 | Then with about 7 minutes to go , Goodmans speed got through the defence again and Beeny could only parry his low shot for Gray ( there was about 5 of them on the pitch ) to tap in . |
| 28 | They got through the winter together . |
| 29 | It was tough , but we got through the time somehow . |
| 30 | PAMELA : I thought , sir , you would have distinguished between a command where my conscience was concerned an a common point . |