Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Call them on for more details . |
| 2 | But even among the backward and traditional , two kinds of country people were the major pillars of the ancient ways — the old and the women , whose ‘ old wives ’ tales ' passed them on to new generations , and occasionally , for the benefit of city men , to collectors of folklore and folksong . |
| 3 | In addition to the barristers in practice , a considerable number have used the Bar as a stepping stone or crutch leading them on to other things . |
| 4 | Once they had turned the Mount , with the full span of the ice shining before them , the two men gathered pace , at once in harmony and contention , drawing vigour from the presence of the young woman between them , who cried out , not in fear but encouraging them on to greater exertions . |
| 5 | Our prisoners are kept safe in the bilboes you were prescient to despatch , and I would have had this Dulay hanged but that he might in death prove a beacon to this same rabble and draw them on to greater reprisals against us , and we are still but few in number . |
| 6 | These were being lowered to the roof-top , where Repo Men guided them on to powered sleds and steered them into the lift . |
| 7 | Their sedentary way of life , the fact that individual families could become units of production and could not only store considerable surpluses , but pass them on to subsequent generations , now meant that the old egalitarian and cooperative values of the hunter-gatherers were gone for ever . |
| 8 | For a time she became a pony-dealer , buying horses from tinkers and selling them on to English buyers . |
| 9 | He is a good player and it has boosted everyone , but it has not spurred me on to greater efforts . |
| 10 | Rapt , ecstatic , she willed me on to ever-greater feats of ardour . |
| 11 | ‘ I had a tough childhood and it spurred me on to great heights . ’ |
| 12 | So bear in mind photo opportunities and indeed getting photographs yourself and sending them in with appropriate captions to the magazine or newspaper and so on . |
| 13 | Then it became darker , the trees denser , thicker , hemming them in on all sides as Thomas guided their horses along some secret path known only to him . |
| 14 | ‘ We may produce guidance to local authorities or call them in for private chats ’ . |
| 15 | You either let them in for two reasons . |
| 16 | We have been starved of second-hand cars because nobody was trading them in for new ones , but this should change that . ’ |
| 17 | To relax the feet totally , start by soaking them in for 20 minutes in some herbal bath salts . |
| 18 | At the moment the EMG pickups on the Petersen have a good clean sound , if a little clanky on the top end , but my ideal would be where you had a bass with a thousand different possibilities and you could just slot them in in two seconds flat ! |
| 19 | The square brackets in ( 62 ) merely mark that the whole is to be taken as a complex entity , which is given anyway by our assumption that an E extended remains an E ; if the brackets are not needed in ( 61 ) why are they present in ( 62 ) ; alternatively , why not write them in in both cases ? |
| 20 | ‘ Then bring them down to Central Gardens , where we hope to have the biggest can collection ever seen in the region or perhaps the country . ’ |
| 21 | The Benefits Agency is trying to play down the NAO findings , putting them down to administrative delays rather than errors . |
| 22 | Thame 's Russell was then dismissed for dissent taking them down to nine men , from which there was no way back and Headington ran out comfortable winners . |
| 23 | If , however , the procedure does comply with the procedure description derived earlier , then it will be necessary to subject each element or activity of the model to further scrutiny , for example by breaking them down to lower-order activities , or by auditing each element in the same manner as the parent procedure . |
| 24 | Generally speaking it is best to avoid complex behaviours with small children and parents but if they are unavoidable ensure that the parents know to break them down into small bits . |
| 25 | Because you 'd you could n't hold that much in your head so you have to try and break them down into little patterns of Oh it 's one of that lot or it 's one of this lot . |
| 26 | Wholesalers , for example , buy in bulk from the manufacturers , store the goods , break them down into smaller quantities , undertake advertising and promotional activities , deliver to other traders , usually retailers , and arrange credit and other services for them . |
| 27 | And and and of course now that er now that we 've got the total business beginning to operate as one , the chances of letting them down on standard bearings is very much smaller than it ever was before . |
| 28 | Do n't run them down with bitchy comments behind their backs . |
| 29 | And , all run here , everything was run here , and animals , animals that won here , well er well I think they put them down as better animals than animals that raced before the war , you know , cos they had to do such a lot in a short time . |
| 30 | They will be ready for November , before the government grant settlement arrives , and work will begin in the finance officer 's department paring them down in bilateral discussions . |