Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After a while I thought I would help them along with some cellulite massage cream . |
| 32 | He clued me in to some strategy . |
| 33 | ‘ Actually the Archdeacon was kind enough to fill me in on that aspect of things . |
| 34 | ‘ Let me in on this mystery that surrounds Corosini . |
| 35 | ‘ Simon 's filled me in in glorious detail . ’ |
| 36 | I just remember them wheeling me down to this room and going to sleep . |
| 37 | My start was beginning to let me down around this time — Ron and I were concentrating more on my pick-up — but I had the satisfaction of beating Calvin Smith quite comfortably . |
| 38 | I always reply , ‘ It 's the Sixties for you now , dear , so you get out there and make a wally of yourself ’ — and he has never let me down in that respect , I am glad to say . |
| 39 | All you have to do is lower me down in this bucket to just above the sea . |
| 40 | That dropped me down from second place . ’ |
| 41 | They build idealised models but then carry them over into real usage as though they really existed , forgetting that they had initially involved ‘ bracketing ’ certain assumptions . |
| 42 | What say I take them over to that monastery on the moor — with some money — and ask the monks to say some masses ? ’ |
| 43 | As soon as the hooves touched the ground the legs crumpled and carefully he rearranged them , folding them over to one side , out of the way of the body . |
| 44 | However , the contract expressly left them over for later agreement . |
| 45 | The law protected farmers living near subsistence level who needed something to carry them over from one harvest to the next , especially if the harvest had been bad . |
| 46 | Instead … each student has become the owner of a collection of statements made by somebody else ( who had either created them or taken them over from another source ) . |
| 47 | Steven put me through to this Gwyllam |
| 48 | ‘ I 'll show ya round with great pleasure , ’ said the affable manager , ‘ but I ca n't think of a worse theatre than this for your show . ’ |
| 49 | And Gershwin 's ‘ Rhapsody ’ , the one that had started them off on this road together . |
| 50 | They work under the grim threat that armed and dangerous rebels could pick them off at any time . |
| 51 | At the moment , when we should be integrating our elderly into community life and reintegrating them into our families , we are sending them off into social exile . |
| 52 | It 's too easy to shrug them off as drippy MOR bores because popularity , ultimately , has its price . |
| 53 | With abused children the immediate and undisputed need is for protection but , in achieving this , we may cut them off from cherished family and community links , an isolation that may prove damaging . |
| 54 | Rainwater , driven off the highway , fell in a solid wall that cut them off from any view of the outside world . |
| 55 | Once you have placed the centre stitches on to waste yarn you can return each set of shoulder stitches to working position and cast them off in one action . |
| 56 | This means that using a program like WINFAX , you can combine document and data from a variety of Windows applications — a letter from word processing , a graphic from your paint program , a design from DTP , a graph from the spreadsheet etc and send them off in one FAX . |
| 57 | The English archers poured a deadly hail of arrows into the French troops , and the English men-at-arms finished them off in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 58 | ‘ I told the police I would take them off in this country , but that I could n't give confirmation I would n't use them abroad . ’ |
| 59 | We 've tried to love both dogs equally , and simply separate them for a cooling-off period after a fight , rather than telling them off in any way . |
| 60 | Bakufu control over the country was never absolute , but rested on the administration 's ability to hold in check the ambitions of various provincial lords and play them off against each other . |