Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | do you want strangulating ? , or hanging upside down on the clothes line by your toe nails ? |
| 2 | Four SSDs either co-operated with the housing authority to provide interim accommodation or made provision out of their own capital budget . |
| 3 | I would also like to point out that antivivisection organisations , do not hatch up their facts or repeat facts out of the air ; they come from individuals as knowledgeable as any vivisectionist . |
| 4 | A recent report from the EOC found that ‘ overall the Youth Training Programme does little or nothing to widen girls ’ horizons or to provide ways out of the low-paid and dead-end jobs which are a feature of many women 's lives in Northern Ireland today ’ . |
| 5 | Octel has also announced two other products : FaxBroadcast , enabling a document to be sent to many locations using a single transaction and FaxStation , an overflow mailbox designed to eliminate problems caused by busy signals or fax machines out of paper . |
| 6 | Other sports that I would like either to see articles about , or receive info on from you are long distance riding and novice eventing . |
| 7 | But , as Alison Lurie observed in the Language of Clothes ( Bloomsbury , £11.99 ) , ‘ The entire history of female fashion in this century can be viewed as a series of more or less successful campaigns to force , flatter or bribe women back into uncomfortable or awkward styles in order to handicap them in professional competition with men . ’ |
| 8 | That we the undersigned , wish to protest at the current activities of the major brewers who are increasing bar prices or forcing tenants out of their businesses and homes . |
| 9 | I was very bad at gym , and really hated ‘ apparatus ’ , where we hurled ourselves over boxes and horses , or hung upside down on parallel bars . |
| 10 | The planning maps of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government showed which local authorities were gaining or losing people up to and including 1961 . |
| 11 | Faults can range from the merely inconvenient , when water spills out of sagging or blocked gutters on to unsuspecting people underneath , to the more serious problem of penetrating damp , where peeling decorations and damp patches inside the house can often be traced to a leaking gutter or downpipe outside . |
| 12 | It was dark , and all the fiddly jobs like clipping in the dogs or tying kit on to the sledges meant taking off gloves . |
| 13 | That is why reporters at Westminster spend half their time drinking in the bars or taking politicians out to lunch and dinner . |
| 14 | THE computers that most companies want do not beat grandmasters at chess , attempt to predict the weather , or do scientists out of a job . |
| 15 | The milkmen have been watching out for customers who lay their part in the community , are good neighbour , keep a watchful eye on elderly residents , or putting nuts out for the birds . |
| 16 | Because he was frail it was thought unwise to allow him to mix with other children or to spend time out of doors , and in consequence he became an avid reader . |
| 17 | or bending and stretching , or loading things on to carts . |
| 18 | There is , however , plenty of evidence from contemporaries , as well as from historians , that not all husbands were drunken brutes and that many would willingly take a hand at quietening the baby for an hour or two after a long working day , or take tea up to their wives before leaving for work . |
| 19 | The village street was empty , the pump deserted , for all the domestic chores were done by midday and the women were indoors now , assembling greens and bacon for tea or hooking rugs out of old rags . |
| 20 | Goes out to eat at night , or brings food back to his room . |
| 21 | In ‘ What 's In Your Life For Me ? ’ or ‘ And I Do n't Love You ’ or ‘ Into Each Rain Some Life Must Fall ’ or a score of others , Smokey thinks through the problems of modern love and squeezes music out of them that drips like honey from a spoon . |
| 22 | If you have sensed an undercurrent of discord and discontent running through your home you should take the initiative and drag things out into the open . |
| 23 | He steers himself into the current of warm air rising above the chandelier , and is carried effortlessly upwards , past floors where people are sitting at little tables and eating ice-cream out of metal goblets . |
| 24 | sort of proper then I just have my tea , it 's more the picking and eating sweets in between |
| 25 | This child has a metal prosthesis and kicks hell out of the others at football . |
| 26 | Harry laughed as he refastened the windows and led Madeleine back into the hall . |
| 27 | Cranston roared with laughter and led Athelstan over to the far corner where a table and stools were set apart from the rest of the customers . |
| 28 | Boxer ! ’ and led Cohen out to the cart . |
| 29 | Later , David pulled on Clare 's towelling bathrobe and led Josh down to the kitchen . |
| 30 | He smiled in a way that had charmed the matrons of Europe , and led Hyacinth over to the cameras . |