Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [vb infin] [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A return to five furlongs should see him back on the winning path . |
| 2 | He was confident , anyway , that his words could talk her out of any ill-feeling . |
| 3 | It was on display for the day and was being steamed so that the boiler inspectors could check it out and issue the necessary documents confirming that it was tested and available to work . |
| 4 | Most of the away fans would make it down in time for the game and little else . |
| 5 | The terrified Frankie skidded round the corner wall of the end house and raced as fast as his legs would carry him down towards the walkway gate . |
| 6 | Jack Clarke knew that sooner or later the brothers would show up in London and , as soon as they did , his network of spies would ferret them out . |
| 7 | When she did breathe ‘ cancer ’ , in her muffled contralto , the implications were of something exceedingly unfortunate with a strong hint of divine retribution , more often than not accompanied by a sharp , righteous , ‘ be sure your sins will find you out . ’ |
| 8 | Critchley 's party-piece has the rounded phrasing , the well-turned punchline of frequent rehearsal ( it 's claimed that some of his fans can recite it back to him ) , but it captures the tone of the Tories in those days perfectly . |
| 9 | Some uninterruptible power supply units can set you back several hundred pounds but smaller units , suitable for one PC , are relatively cheap . |
| 10 | The other 85 per cent goes into the surrounding air where non-smokers can breathe it in . |
| 11 | Jackson 's Paris agent confirmed that a visit had been discussed , but explained that ‘ the crowds might put him off ’ . |
| 12 | Cowboys may wear them out of necessity and convicts in the USA may have been given them as part of their uniform , but one thing 's for sure , whatever the reason , most people simply would n't live without them . |
| 13 | You may find an apparent discrepancy in the parcels , and mark this in the same way , although later deeds may clear it up . |
| 14 | His slippery feet could take him in and out of a West End emporium in two shakes of a fox 's tail , but what he collected on his way through was as much as six pairs of hands could manage . |
| 15 | The other divers would follow suit : the ship would burn , or sink , or both ; the crew , taken by surprise , would leap into the water where the waiting canoeists would finish them off . |
| 16 | But people in this group , often unemployed or single parents on low incomes , had not even been trying to get most forms of credit because of their own feeling that their personal circumstances would rule them out as applicants . |
| 17 | So it pays the nest-owners to sit tight and hope that the killers will pass them by . |
| 18 | When we are babies we cry so that our parents will pick us up and cuddle us . |
| 19 | What about getting those children as they go out a voucher that their parents can bring them along to see a show at a reduced rate . |
| 20 | Although , as we saw for Pakistanis in Rochdale , the culture of immigrants may separate them out from the white community , the children of immigrants will gradually become assimilated into white society , into the wider working class and some , by upward mobility , into the middle classes . |
| 21 | ‘ That clever husband does n't know that his ideas may lead me back to her ! ’ he laughed to himself . |
| 22 | ‘ Jazz exploded in London in the mid-Eighties , but only a handful of people got a deal out of it , ’ says Geoff , who got into hip hop via rare groove and whose CV includes organising CND and Artists Against Apartheid benefits , putting on jazz rap weekends to try and prove bands could carry it off live as well as on record , DJing at Camden 's Jazz Cafe and , until recently , booking the bands there too . |
| 23 | They work under the grim threat that armed and dangerous rebels could pick them off at any time . |
| 24 | The shower will stop automatically and warm air blowers will dry you off . |
| 25 | Boats will take you up and down the river , stopping off at Kew Gardens , Richmond and its beautiful park and Greenwich Observatory and park , and the National Maritime Museum . |
| 26 | Orcadai will escort them on from there . |
| 27 | The law firms within it have been competing very strongly with each other , there are six extremely good law firms in Leeds and their I think that that experience in competition over the last few years will stand them in very good stead . |
| 28 | If Mr Hussein had the wit to get out of Kuwait before the Americans and their allies can push him out , the war would have lost its overriding purpose — and the coalition might at last have lost its cohesiveness . |
| 29 | Paul Dodge , once the hard centre amongst England 's backs , is recovering from a pulled hamstring and expects to make the Orrell trip , but there are still doubts about the fitness of John Wells , the England B flanker whose hamstring problems may keep him out for two more weeks . |
| 30 | The horse man used to have to go before anybody else , to feed the horses so that , and groom them , currycomb them , water them and do everything , before any of the farmers dare take them out on the fields . |