Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BELVILLE : Since she is apt to fall into fits or at least pretend to do so , prepare her to see me tomorrow after dinner in my mother 's closet . |
| 2 | Yeah , that 's right , bring them forward to Monday . |
| 3 | The Draft Airports ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1993 also includes measures to update legislation controlling airports in the province and bring them broadly into line . |
| 4 | Return to the bad old ways , elect separately a Chamber and a Senate , then bring them together at Versailles in a National Assembly which would or would not modify the Constitution of 1875 . |
| 5 | ‘ When I went to school , I were n't above eight or nine year old and I used to have to go hawking milk , as I told you , before I went to school ; and then I used to take the empty cans to school , bring them home at dinner-time . |
| 6 | So you just bring them home at lunchtime or something give him a |
| 7 | Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick . |
| 8 | Jonathon now worked on model ships under the eye of Uncle Philip and was learning how to carve them directly from wood . |
| 9 | Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets . |
| 10 | ‘ I adore you , your body drives me wild with desire , I live for the light in your eyes , my whole being lights up at the thought of you . |
| 11 | Mrs Hollidaye took off her leather gloves and laid them neatly on top of her handbag on the pew beside her , straightened her hat and unhooked a cushion which hung from a brass hook beneath the shelf . |
| 12 | And she cut a dozen and a half splendid blooms and laid them reverently in Sally-Anne 's trug . |
| 13 | The Health Education Authority advises parents to introduce fruit juices as late as possible and then to dilute them heavily with water . |
| 14 | CGT only applies to the actual profit you make , so if you buy shares to the value of £25,000 and sell them later for £35,000 the taxman will only be interested in the £1 0,000 profit you have gained . |
| 15 | Many are being refitted with the same smart new decor which will make them easier to spot on the high street . |
| 16 | We met them afterwards on stage . |
| 17 | He eventually managed to assemble about 170 of his foot , all that had survived , and some 450 horsemen , and led them southwards towards Coldstream , by what was long remembered as Johnny Cope 's road' , and thence next day to Berwick . |
| 18 | Then he said to Rain : ‘ He attacked me only with words . ’ |
| 19 | Asked what concerned them most in connection with nuclear power , respondents named the possibility of accidents , human error and the storage of radioactive waste . |
| 20 | This is not as frightful as it may sound : with self-build projects the council inspectors are usually very helpful , although you should n't badger him/her relentlessly for advice , and employing reputable tradesmen should eliminate any problems with outside labour . |
| 21 | Then laid me gently in bed . |
| 22 | If so , would you explain them more in terms of : |
| 23 | ‘ The archbishop can not compensate me enough for slavery in Salzburg … |
| 24 | However , the governors were unwilling to leave out any of the head 's recommendations and they decided to treat them all as priorities . |
| 25 | Instead of generalising findings from one patient to others by treating them all as representing instances of a single syndrome , the approach is to treat them all as people in whom a language-processing system which , before their neurological damage , was the same for all of them , has been impaired in some specific way . |
| 26 | We have also introduced a reform which will give people more choice as to who represents them legally in court . |
| 27 | Better results are obtained by rooting them singly in 2in pots rather than several to a larger pot . |
| 28 | But the vast majority are acted on by enzymes , which change them chemically in biotransformation reactions ( see p 165 ) . |
| 29 | My mother 's stories also led me away from home . |
| 30 | She had a longish , plain face with a straight nose and almost no eyebrows ; she must have plucked them away in order to repaint them in higher up . |