Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Based in Minnesota they have had little if any real distribution in the UK until Terry Shearer , who did so much at Spandex to get IBM 's 4250 accepted by the printing industry , took them on through his new company , PrePress Solutions . |
| 2 | Only a bully could have stood up to the bullying party bureaucracy ; Mr Yeltsin has taken them on at their own game and beaten them . |
| 3 | Without putting down the West Coast loonies in so many specific words , Hoffman seemed to be putting them on with his canny deadpan expressions . |
| 4 | These are specialised graphics objects that you use rather like clip art — copy them on to your own slides and then customise . |
| 5 | Because of the way that erm the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years , to a system where mixed ability was introduced year by year from the first to the third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school — one lot of pupils in their streamed classes , and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes — and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and in the mixed ability classes . |
| 6 | Because of the way that the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years to a system where mixed ability is introduced year by year from the first to third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school , one lot of pupils in their streamed classes and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes , and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and the mixed ability classes . |
| 7 | He would have been at the Crystal Palace too , willing me on to my first AAA Championship title , revelling in the rivalry , matching the best of the youngsters from Haringey . |
| 8 | His politics , as exemplified by this omission , again prove intriguing and his almost furtive observation hands me on to my next destination . |
| 9 | One way to see plenty of birds at close range is to attract them in to your own garden . |
| 10 | One question : did she con Lil too , and all the rest of the team , or were all of them in on her little plot ? |
| 11 | He saw Rosie stretch up , catch the damp pants between her teeth and slowly draw them down to her grimy sacking , intent on ripping them to shreds . |
| 12 | If you experience the return of any symptoms , or any new symptoms , during this week , mark them down on your daily chart , and go back to the diet in Stage I for the remainder of the week only . |
| 13 | The novices empty vats of mutton scraps into the dustbins and pack them down with their bare hands . |
| 14 | These powerful mountain-dwelling Elves leapt among the Naggarothi assassins and chopped them down with their great axes , saving Caledor 's life . |
| 15 | Then he went back to the cutlery drawer and , with a skill born of long practice , lobbed knives and forks over to Maisie , who set them down in her customary eccentric manner . |
| 16 | These are sent to patients with a request to take them along to their general practitioner within 10 days . |
| 17 | The obvious alternative is to take them along to your local ‘ paper igloo ’ ( a blue bin like a postbox , usually alongside bottle banks ) for recycling . |
| 18 | A downturn of the lips : ‘ Glynn women have never figured in wills ; it has always been assumed that the men would look after them along with their other properties . ’ |
| 19 | My faculty of speech was deserting me along with my other powers . |
| 20 | It 's about time you realised how serious it all is and the intolerable position you 've put me in with your irrational behaviour . |
| 21 | Indeed , quite early on , I tried to work out in my mind what it was that made his personality ( though he did not like the word ) so compelling ; and I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not let me down in my own estimation of him . |
| 22 | The analysis also confirms the strong record of the course in retaining students and seeing them through to their final qualifications . |
| 23 | But to clarify things locate the questionable premises and follow them through to their logical conclusion so that the person in doubt can see it himself . |
| 24 | But if you just take those points er an and , and think them through in your own mind about how this system of government differs say from the British system of government and the position of local government in the British system , you can see that , well we do n't really have local government do we ? |
| 25 | Owen fingered them over with his exhausted and beaten mind , and bled and burned without tears . |
| 26 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 27 | This , for Nelson , is the soul of Berlioz 's art , the musical equivalent of jeweller setting gemstones in precious metal , not merely to hold them in place , but to show them off to their greatest advantage . |
| 28 | We watched them get into a small carriage which took them off to their new residence . |
| 29 | Captain Burrows kept three or four huge pine crates , which seemed big enough to pack all nine children , and freight them off to their new home . |
| 30 | Sally Gilbert-Smith and Ruth Gilbert from Cornwall — Sally , 28 , who works in Lloyds Bank in Newquay , entered herself and her mother for the competition because it seemed like the perfect opportunity for the experts to show them off to their full potential . |