Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pos pn] [noun] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you for bringing my feet down to the ground . |
| 2 | Here are some of the most common queries and out suggestions for helping your hair back to the very best of health and condition . |
| 3 | Often he was right , often I gave him a bad time for sticking his nose in . |
| 4 | Only er National Savings are worth keeping your eye on , because the government 's very keen to make a few shillings out of National Savings , and you might get some good issues in the future . |
| 5 | In head office , managers are responsible for keeping their teams up to date with progress on their tests in their particular areas of work . |
| 6 | That is another reason for keeping your head up , so that such people can see your lips moving as well as hearing what you are saying . |
| 7 | I spect they use it for driving their vans through . |
| 8 | That 's what I hate most about keeping my head down . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's it , Joe , for gettin' 'is wallet back an' mindin' me own business now and in the future , like . |
| 10 | The sub-committee comprises about six experienced bureaux managers from the area , who are each responsible for representing their area on about five bureaux interviewing panels . |
| 11 | Eventually , after knocking my pan in , and doing my nut generally till I was blue in the face I manage to get a Response out of Annemarie Barr . |
| 12 | After pushing our boats over into the water , we then righted them by putting all our weight on the centreboards where they poked out of the bottom of the boat . |
| 13 | But my surgeon says my back should be considerably stronger in two years time so who knows , maybe I 'll be able to make a comeback after sorting my life out . |
| 14 | But after ramming their words back down their throats his enormous smile shows how delighted he is to be a golden oldie ! |
| 15 | After getting their men off to work every morning there were the cows to chase off to the moor , hens to feed and housework to be done , then the serious work could be tackled . |
| 16 | After dropping their weapons off — the RMP do not go armed into the Soviet Sector — with the Checkpoint Duty NCO , they arrive at the accident shortly after a Volkspolizei ( People 's Police ) patrol has turned up . |
| 17 | The two dealers escaped through a back window , after dropping their belongings down from the fire-escape . |
| 18 | Could you really address Princess Diana as ‘ Your Royal Highness ’ after hearing her babble on for 20 minutes to a man who calls her Squidgy ? |
| 19 | During the worst period for external conditions of the whole three years the only book I could get hold of ( and then only after putting my name down on a waiting list ) was Somerset Maugham 's enormous Of Human Bondage . |
| 20 | Now he is out of action again after fighting his way back into the first team . |
| 21 | Judo : White remains the stylist in a world of brute force : Philip Nicksan meets a fighter on the mat after throwing his weight around on behalf of the British judo team |
| 22 | Thieves stole office equipment worth £900 from the premises of Admiral Fergus in North Shields after smashing their way in . |
| 23 | The two men were at the top of the stairs and almost within grabbing distance , but if either had tried it he would have left his fingers in the frame as the bang echoed through the house and Carson thumbed the deadlock button , just in case they had any ideas about picking their way in . |
| 24 | De Stempel , 58 , was jailed for conning her aunt out of £500,000 . |
| 25 | In his study of Amer In his study of m the U S he found that seventy five percent of the s people who spoke Na-dene , could n't give a reason er a proper reason for passing their language on to the er children . |
| 26 | But because it is a writer who is giving us this , and a writer at the beginning of his career , what more natural than that we should see him as writing his way out of all this , as ‘ getting it out of his system ’ as we say , clearing the ground for work that will enact triumphantly his escape , his liberation , his hope . |
| 27 | But erm what I was I was just seven , my oldest sister was ten so she 'd probably have been you know more capable of helping my mam out than I was . |
| 28 | ‘ Hundreds [ of shareholders ] have for years maintained guarantees at banks ’ , continued the article , ‘ and thousands have helped to create clubs by taking shares without hope of seeing their money back or any return on it . ’ |
| 29 | Students were also interviewed with the aim of ascertaining their feelings about , and approaches to , their studies ; and later interviews were held with some students and teaching staff to provide further information about the study habits and attitudes of this age group and to investigate the study demands that are made . |
| 30 | round about the first world war time , he used this sort of sort of pitching his tent up to the and staying there and learning their language and observing their rituals , getting to know them . |