Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were they paid just for tying the boats up or for bringing them up the estuary as well ? |
| 2 | When she arrived at Walsall , she informed Edward that Mrs Noble , after sending her earlier a ‘ vulgar and jeering ’ letter in which ‘ She does her best to make me doubt you ’ , had forbidden them to meet or correspond until Helen reached years of discretion — her twenty-first birthday on 11 July 1898 . |
| 3 | Just something for to pep her up a bit . |
| 4 | ‘ I had to lay him off but I had every intention of bringing him back the following season . |
| 5 | After a week of checking everything out the survey began in earnest on 9 February . |
| 6 | Um I think that um y'know it 's often quite intimidating to be confronted with y'know sort of say eighty odd questions , if you were to use that many , erm so if you if you kind of break it up a bit in some way and have different headed sections with slightly different format questions it might y'know kind of help people through it as it were . |
| 7 | If the cross-grained walnut , or other suitable wood , is cut and glued to the pine backing , then the task of passing it over a circular saw is greatly simplified . |
| 8 | Well , they give , I , I do n't know , it 's the way they feel when you put them on , they sort of hold themselves up a bit better and |
| 9 | Indeed , his increased persistence of late may even be my employer 's way of urging me all the more to respond in a like-minded spirit . |
| 10 | And they have decided to issue part of their deficit-financing bonds to the market at attractive interest rates , instead of forcing them down the throats of reluctant workers ( though the lack of a secondary market may still make them unappetising ) . |
| 11 | The ILP Conference of 1933 made this official Party policy ; this gave the NAC the problem of deciding what exactly the RPC had meant . |
| 12 | Summat 's moving on the floor and I sort of watch it out the corner of my eye . |
| 13 | If you want an Italian restaurant where the waiters bring you menus instead of shouting at you , where they leave the lights on instead of turning them off every twenty minutes , and where they make you get up and dance before they 'll turn them on again , then do n't try the Vecchio Reccione , however convenient it is for Stringfellows . |
| 14 | And why the problems there is that any sort of loud music was actually buried under the auditorial I mean that was the problem that occurred and we had to sort of tone it down a bit . |
| 15 | He had got into the habit of examining himself minutely every morning and would squeeze and ‘ milk ’ his urethra to see if there was any sign of discharge . |
| 16 | As Christmas draws near , many of us cherish a cosy vision of spending it around a traditional open fire , toasting crumpets in its dancing flames . |
| 17 | Bit embarrassing , really , she 's supposed to be on probation but her probation officer sort of lost her about a year ago . ’ |
| 18 | The ideal way , way of arranging a room as I see it would be that you could have your separate rooms but have sliding doors , after all there 's nothing new in sliding doors , er , but doors opening and closing erm are restrictive , that 's only my own personal view , my wife does n't necessarily , necessarily share that view ideally if I was planning a house , the main room the main living room would be much larger than the one we live in , it would certainly be a different shape , erm when we had our golden wedding erm our visitors were so numerous that they were standing shoulder to shoulder in these two rooms and the kitchen whereas if it had been a reasonably designed house maybe we could of spread them around a little more , but they 're minor , minor defects that are not really serious . |
| 19 | We , one does n't try to lose things , but they just happen do n't they really I think I appreciate more now , you know when I was , when I was teaching I used to think oh stupid woman she 's not , to bring this book in and you know , and now I think oh dear , huh , yeah and you also appreciate the people , I would appreciate now those who managed to do it every day without fail , manage to sort of let , because they must of put themselves out no end to have |
| 20 | As I run I 'm computing the Mamba 's speed in that heavy black frock against my chances of making it up the north transept steps before he rounds the corner . |
| 21 | I 'd of kept him in a bit longer |
| 22 | Could you just lift me up above your shoulder and kind of swivel me round a bit ? ’ |
| 23 | So after ten years of telling us how the future belongs to Thatcher , he will spend the next five telling us how successful Major will be in creating a classless society . |
| 24 | ‘ Talk about leading me up the garden path ! |
| 25 | It was like pulling them off a duplicating machine , and after a while , when we realised we had little or no chance of catching anything bigger , it became so boring we never went again . |
| 26 | ‘ If by any chance the police pull us in on suspicion they 've got ter 'ave an identification parade , an' if the old watchman recognises any of us we 're done for , unless 'e 's too frightened ter pick us out , an' 'e will be if 'e knows we 're capable o' smackin' 'im around a bit . |
| 27 | ‘ Somewhere that Jennifer could be cared for to give you both a break . ’ |
| 28 | Need a the , these Fiestas , but they never get them right at the , the bloke I works with got one exactly the same as this does exactly ten miles and it cuts out on him . |
| 29 | I thought about running it back a while . |
| 30 | There are two reasons for giving them only the most tangential treatment here . |