Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pron] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fascinating satirical theme is never properly pushed to its limits and all concerned sadly bottle out , with plot and action drooping along with its protagonists ' derrieres . |
| 2 | We found that a lot of young couples that because you do n't go to church on a regular basis but erm , to go along with their parents ' wishes too , rather than going through a big church wedding in a church , they go to a hotel and they have the erm , wedding ceremony and the reception all in the hotel , and are married by a minister . |
| 3 | Mr Cedric Multhrop subsided into one of the comfortable armchairs in his lounge , then leapt up guiltily as though a mere hotel owner had no place to be sitting down in his guests ' domain . |
| 4 | Here the marchers can drill up and down to their hearts ' content . |
| 5 | It was because of that meagre income that she became incensed at her tutor , Maurice Greiffenhagen , who had a habit of sitting down at his students ' drawings and paintings and finishing them off . |
| 6 | She sighed as she turned in at her parents ' tasteful wrought-iron gate . |
| 7 | Most evenings , before setting off for work , he would call in at his parents ' house in Old Church Street . |
| 8 | I assumed he was off to his parents ' pavillon to make a telephone call . |
| 9 | We are not even likely to put up with our politicians ' abdication of monetary responsibility for long , though it is another subject they try not to mention in front of us . |
| 10 | I feel that these difficulties have gone on too long for there to be a realistic prospect of change in time for these children and given their improvement whilst in foster care , where they are not brought up in their parents ' conflict , it is not in the children 's interests for them to go and live with the father and that they need to be placed in an environment with permanent substitute parents , who can meet the boys ' physical , emotional , educational and social needs . |
| 11 | ‘ First the Law Lords allowed a breach of the Homicide Act so that Tony Bland died by involuntary euthanasia , then a Select Committee on euthanasia was set up in their Lordships ' House , only to be rechristened ‘ Medical Ethics ’ . |
| 12 | Hey — I 'd still got my page of dream-interpretation , had n't I ? folded up in my jeans ' pocket ? |
| 13 | He had , once he left school , gone to university and lived up to his parents ' expectations by gaining a law degree with honours . |
| 14 | The big doors would open for them and close on them and McCloy and the men who were ‘ not quite up to his class ' would unload them and store the cargoes here . |
| 15 | my credulity when she wandered over the Moors and she was at death 's door , and she turned up at her cousins ' |
| 16 | She walked out barefoot and turned up at her grandparents ' home in Speke with a sleeping bag wrapped around her . |
| 17 | Young Sarah stayed on in her parents ' house behind the hill , only one of a number of poor people in that humble street . |
| 18 | not drinking out of somebody elses ' glass are you ? |
| 19 | If he mentioned moving out of her parents ' house , she dissolved into tears . |
| 20 | After Schloss Hartheim , which seemed to go on for ever , the three of us moved out of her parents ' house and came down here to Munich and its Alpine air . |
| 21 | Maisie had moved out of her parents ' house and come to stay at the Wilsons ' shortly after her mother 's funeral , a multi-denominational affair dominated by the headmaster of the Wimbledon Independent Islamic Boys ' School ( Day ) . |
| 22 | backed out of her parents ' drive |
| 23 | Jacqueline , naked as a fish , ran screaming with delight from room to room , slithering out of her sisters ' hands as they tried to catch her . |
| 24 | When I was about II , my mother bashfully confided to me that " babies came out of their mummies ' tummies " ! |
| 25 | " To keep them off my horses ' backs and their dirty droppings out of my horses ' feed . " |
| 26 | Mr Evans was flaming mad , not with Mrs Gotobed but with Hepzibah for ‘ doing him out of his rights ' . |
| 27 | Dansey did not seek to influence its policy , so long as it kept out of his agents ' way . |
| 28 | Luke nodded and , getting a red jewel box out of his jeans ' pocket , handed it to Alejandro just before a beautiful woman came out of the house . |
| 29 | But he witnesses a growing determination among some tenants to fight back against their landlords ' dubious practices . |
| 30 | She delightedly moves back into her parents ' house , and lies there , among golden-winged angels . |