Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " . |
| 2 | Wash and dry the leaves and tear them into a salad bowl . |
| 3 | take him on the outside , take him on the inside , take him on the outside , inside , outside , let him through outside , inside , in squeeze them between the lot of them look |
| 4 | waves push me to the side |
| 5 | According to Nicholas Clee , from the bookseller J Whitaker and Sons in London , any writer planning to embark on such a book would be advised to create a family living in rural bliss with a gaggle of children then land them in a crisis , preferably involving the central character in an affair with an older/younger man/woman . |
| 6 | Will the hon. Gentleman please lay them on the table ? |
| 7 | Thunder rolled over and round them from every direction so that Trent had the sense of being in the interior of an enormous drum on which giants beat from all sides . |
| 8 | The EC can neither reverse current trends nor bring them to a halt . |
| 9 | Bring them to the forecourt . |
| 10 | It must have seemed to them that Marian and Allen had perished in the flames and their own immediate concern was to remove themselves from the danger of the roof falling in on their heads and from the certain consequence that so conspicuous a fire in the night would be seen by the outlaws and would sooner or later bring them to the scene . |
| 11 | Find Gilleis and Adam for me , and bring them to the chapel . |
| 12 | The plan was to rescue a coach load of Bosnian children from the fighting in the former Yugoslavia and bring them to the safety of England . |
| 13 | And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest , to the door of the tent of meeting . |
| 14 | ‘ The initial plan was to put companies together and bring them to the market . ’ |
| 15 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 16 | ‘ Tack up Red Flag , Seashell , Parky and Joe and bring them into the school , ’ she ordered , and the little girls fled away , while Miss Bedwelty gave her new pupils another of her withering stares . |
| 17 | They say that monkeys are often badly treated by people who bring them into the country without really understanding how to care for them . |
| 18 | Pot up a hew clumps and bring them into the kitchen . |
| 19 | ‘ Bring them into the kitchen , please , ’ she said , her hands clasped tightly together , ‘ I must tell them all the bad news personally . ’ |
| 20 | Hours in the swamp and when they were going all thick and heavy there , he used to go round about October , just for that one day , and shoot as much as he could , and bring them into the mansion . |
| 21 | As with the Cel Editor , you may import a number of different image file types to form your background , and may , indeed , find that you prefer to work on backgrounds in another package altogether , and bring them into the Background Editor only to convert them to the Device Independent Bitmap ( DIB ) format that is native to the package . |
| 22 | Situations in which they can prove useful are in small and/or lightly-stocked tanks , and rearing tanks where feeding is rather heavy and regular , as long as the turnover rate is not too high so as to stress the young fish or drag them into the filter . |
| 23 | walnuts never if you crack them along the seam they never come out whole , you always break into the nut |
| 24 | To achieve this change of direction , we will negotiate Performance Agreements with each health authority and back them with an Incentive Fund to reward authorities to perform well . |
| 25 | When will the right hon. Gentleman give that consistency and leadership to the police and back them for a change ? |
| 26 | Please favour me with an answer . ’ |
| 27 | And wrapt me in a gown . |
| 28 | Simmer them for an hour . |
| 29 | So you sling them , sling them down the track ! |
| 30 | Perhaps we could instigate a national drive to recycle on a grand scale — from restaurants , BR etc — and sell them as a peat alternative ! |