Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fought their attempts to carry him out with the strength of one possessed . |
| 2 | The Financial Times ' headline ‘ US and UK groups battle it out for contracts ’ on February 11 is the title of a report which notes that ‘ British engineers say US project managers traditionally prefer to operate with other US companies . ’ |
| 3 | All that postmodernism has been able to do is signal the demise and loss of all we have held dear , and it remains for another generation of artists to pull us out of the mire . |
| 4 | For health reasons she returned to England in 1883 , but her husband 's appointment in 1886 as Italian and Greek correspondent for The Times drew her back to Italy , where she lived in Rome until 1897 . |
| 5 | She bit her lip as her own words flung themselves back in her face . |
| 6 | Only one of this year 's Crufts group winners made it through to the last forty ! |
| 7 | It is then the truck drivers push them out of the moving cab . |
| 8 | Yeah , and that used to be our strength before , er that 's the sphere of operations done before the there was more , if you like , , technology , shall we say , associated with varying sort of manual valves than what there is power valves , in other words power valves offers it up to people like , or |
| 9 | But he did n't turn round and I saw only his receding back , the narrow shoulders squared , the bent legs stepping it out in time with his men . |
| 10 | Exhausted front seven hours of nonstop toil , the brothers flung themselves down on the red soil in the shade along with the other fifteen hundred coolies of the plantation and lay like dead men . |
| 11 | All trips pick you up from and return you to right outside your hotel . |
| 12 | Hard-up families in the stockbroker belt are begging state schools to bail them out as the recession bites deeper . |
| 13 | That is the pathway we have gone down , and in consequence we have reduced the amount of food that is given to our cows that could be eaten by man from 50 per cent to 14 per cent by getting the input from grass and porridge oats : food that would otherwise be wasted in a system that is not using these animals to pick it up on the way . |
| 14 | It had , for four short ecstatic hours at the Brandenburg Gate , before calm East German border guards sealed it off by forming solid lines . |
| 15 | Journalists woke him up in his bed with the news and , as I suspected , all hell broke loose . |
| 16 | She could have asked for the moon , and seen the clansmen climb on each other 's shoulders to reach it down for her . |
| 17 | He sat silent for a moment , glancing with a look of displeasure at the cars jamming them in on either side . |
| 18 | I remember paramedics getting her out of the car , but I could not get out of my seat because my legs were trapped under the dashboard . |
| 19 | Indeed , aside from power steering , the basic Wrangler is probably less well equipped than the wartime Jeeps which at least boasted folding shovels to help the drivers dig them out of trouble . |
| 20 | I can imagine members of each of these fraternities getting something out of some parts of the book — and , by serendipitous sampling , discovering interesting titbits . |
| 21 | Mayne and his group crept away , leaving the guards to fight it out between themselves . |
| 22 | The crowd was shouting and gesticulating , parents lifting children on shoulders to keep them out of the crush , fists punching the air , workmen 's tools being waved like weapons . |
| 23 | In regga a producer frequently utilises the same backing track for several different vocals , but only Steely & Clevie would dare let them all play at once on a dub , allowing several different melodies to fight it out for dominance of a different rhythm . |
| 24 | When traders tracked him down to his hotel room , he would n't answer the door . |
| 25 | This is bound to be seen as further evidence that Britain risks cutting itself off from the mainstream of European integration because of hostility both to economic and monetary union and to eventual political union . |
| 26 | It was surely preferable for the superpowers to fight it out in the space race than blow the world to bits ( Wolfe 1979 ) . |
| 27 | I do n't suppose I was more than 10 when the harvesters sent me off to the nearest pub to get some cider in a couple of bottles . |
| 28 | An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east . |
| 29 | His angry words brought her back to reality , but did nothing to take away her sense of grievance . |
| 30 | A PAPER fan inherited among a job lot on her marriage led Mrs Lynn Lamport on a trail of historical intrigue unearthing tales of three-in-a-bed and of a Lady whose gambling losses brought her down to the level of street sweeper . |