Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing . |
| 2 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I always wanted to work with a squad of young players and bring them on for a few seasons . |
| 4 | If a group is coming to entertain residents , then bring them in after an afternoon nap . |
| 5 | ‘ This will help to redress the balance and bring them back to a positive situation . |
| 6 | Those new-age prats think they can flush me out with a bit of colonic irrigation . |
| 7 | This puts a healthy pressure on the insurer to provide good quality policies and back them up with a fast and fair administrative and claims service . |
| 8 | That 's what they did to people after they had died , they laid them out in a bed . |
| 9 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
| 10 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 11 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 12 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 14 | So they have they have in fact embarked on a course which now lets these newspapers really deliver them up on a plate I mean they can fry them , they can bake them , they can grill them , they can roast them because they 've put themselves in a position where they now deserve the criticism and the level of imagery which they 're getting . |
| 15 | ‘ It is true , ’ Dubois continued ‘ He asked me in as an advisor , and I realized at once that they were not the work of the Bizango . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Uniforms bring me out in a rash . ’ |
| 18 | Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place . |
| 19 | Anyone fancy helping me out on a few voodoo dolls dressed in a famous black with blue/orange trim kit ? : - ) |
| 20 | ‘ A few people 's names have been mentioned , but at the moment Ian Leckie is going to look after the youth team , with John Hope helping me out on a Saturday . |
| 21 | ‘ A few people 's names have been mentioned , but at the moment Ian Leckie is going to look after the youth team , with John Hope helping me out on a Saturday . |
| 22 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 23 | You 're sticking them back into a |
| 24 | Set down ten pairs of cards , pick them up in a pack and give them to onlookers to cut a few times . |
| 25 | If Walter Smith is going to continue producing them out of a hat from the reserve team like this , Rangers will remain without peer and the rest will have an even greater excuse for abandoning hope before they start . |
| 26 | Is actually to terrify the p poor and to drive them in into a s an under and this is part of their philosophy that they 've been following since nineteen seventy nine under Mrs Thatcher . |
| 27 | Catherine 's anger was also aroused when a photographer took pictures of her topless on the French Riviera and sold them on to a men 's magazine . |
| 28 | He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’ |
| 29 | Margaret and her friends collected old clothes , converted them into dusters and sold them out of a suitcase in the Camden market and to old clothes dealers . |
| 30 | I lit a cigarette , whose first jab doubled me up with an unmufflable bark of outrage from my lungs . |