Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [art] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , if she were seated in her old place , wedged between the window and Penini , with his mother opposite encircled in her husband 's arms , or , if the men rode alongside or travelled on the outside of the carriage , sitting with her mistress while Pen and Flush lay on the other seat — now she would feel stifled , trapped , longing to get out . |
| 2 | And , she said the plug that goes into the from the answer machine goes into the thing |
| 3 | Perhaps his best production in this country was the WNO Ballo in Maschera , a scrupulously organised and visually attractive treatment that benefited from the by now traditional repatriation of Verdi 's subject to its Swedish origin . |
| 4 | Although sprayed on the outside of the banana plant , the pesticide had been absorbed into the fruit . |
| 5 | General von Schweinitz , the Prussian military plenipotentiary in St Petersburg , seems to have played in 1866 a crucial role in explaining and justifying to an at first hostile Alexander II Bismarck 's policy in Germany . |
| 6 | Now these represent , and this list is sent back to us and retained on the with the contract and all the details of this assignment for when it comes to the top of the pile as it were . |
| 7 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 8 | They will be able to give you a practical demonstration and support with an after sales service that offers a same day or out of hours call . |
| 9 | Must be handsome , intelligent and witty and looking for a fun-to-be-with female student . |
| 10 | It 's no good to them , this land if sold in the on this particular piece of land , they 've sold all the viable access off to the residents of the have n't they ? so there , there 's no right of way really for them to get down there , and it should be cheap . |
| 11 | The force of the decompression was so great that Captain Tim Lancaster was sucked from his seat and dashed against the outside of the aircraft . |
| 12 | So I said I went and lay in the in these bull rushes and I got half a brick , yes , he says , and I saw them coming and he says and I threw it and hit him this er blackleg with this half brick . |
| 13 | and when I heard er th from him that he 's going to er pick up somebody somewhere , and pick up somebody somewhere else and go to the to a |
| 14 | So if the mover of composite eight would come down and standing in the of the Northern Region , to be seconded by Lancashire , but as we 're now formally seconding the er the , the formally seconders will not be required to come down to the front , but the movers will . |
| 15 | Once the Munich Agreement of October 1938 appeared to dash any such prospect , Stalin lost interest in Spain and help for the by then desperate Republic dried up . |
| 16 | We would pick baskets of these , which would be taken home and bunched , and on the next morning taken to church to line the choir stalls and to be put in jam jars and attached to the outside of the pews down the two aisles . |
| 17 | Tug felt like a ghost , mouthing and gesturing on the outside of a window , in the darkness . |
| 18 | Two or three people have been having problems with the listserv software here this week , and it 's been to do with personal mail addresses , as shown in the From : field of the header of every message each of us sends . |
| 19 | When used with the to infinitive , on the other hand , find denotes rather the discovery of a fact : ( 96 ) I measured the tail of the dead rat , and found it to be two yards long . |
| 20 | In this respect cause recalls the impression of an enabling condition associated with the verb help when used with the to infinitive . |
| 21 | Palmer ( 1988 : 199 ) proposes that when followed by the to infinitive , verbs of perception function as verbs of reporting , so that He saw the children to be eating their lunch means " He reported the children to be eating their lunch " . |
| 22 | The trading position of the British economy is one crucial factor here , not only as expressed in the ex post trade balance but also in the constraint posed on expansionary demand management . |
| 23 | So much so of course that er that er the the elder brother , he was er he was er a branch official by this time , twenty six , at the er Hucknall Colliery , the local colliery , and of course when the strike er was over , er that was the end of he as far as working in the in the coal mining industry in this particular area , that was the end of it . |