Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent all the next seven months waiting for my case to come up and fighting to keep my daughter . |
| 2 | Anyway , I got one of my lads to go up and see Harry Short . ’ |
| 3 | When I do this sort of thing in England , I tell my agent to go out and say , ‘ I have been instructed to buy all this land by a woman who i9 completely mad . |
| 4 | So , then she said , oh right , I 'll get on your desk just to check that it 's alright , so she got , took my work essays off , and she got on my desk and then I said , oh I 'll help you down , so she sat on my desk to get off and of course it 's not attached |
| 5 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 6 | Well it depends , you know , it depends if I expect erm my landlord to come back and chop my head off or something . |
| 7 | They simply told my father to hurry up and put his jacket on . |
| 8 | Ali is so large I have to stand on my toes to reach over and across the huge expanse of his back to slip the tie under his collar . |
| 9 | But her assessment of my ability to stand up and shout in a crisis is pretty much a front . |
| 10 | I would have enjoyed them even more had I not been about to faint every ten yards , but I was in far too bad a mood to tell my colleagues to slow down and wait for me . |
| 11 | We must contact these people , we must build back the confidence to the unemployed , we 've given these people who are unemployed our good training , we need their expertise to come back and fight again if we 're gon na have any hope for the future . |
| 12 | It would take her ages to manoeuvre back and forth and force her way into the relentless stream of traffic . |
| 13 | Bernice took a few moments break from her search to reach up and snap it off . |
| 14 | Now , though , she was sitting in the dressing-room , not even sure if she could persuade her legs to stand up and carry her to the stage . |
| 15 | The early inhabitants had to go where there was grass for their animals to feed on and this mobile existence dictated that the home was some form of tent . |
| 16 | The early inhabitants had to go where there was grass for their animals to feed on and this mobile existence dictated that the home was some form of tent . |
| 17 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 18 | When details of its plan to split up and sell off parts of Rover became public in 1986 , however , the government faced a political storm . |
| 19 | Sheepdogs are difficult to teach to drive the flock away from the shepherd — the dog has to be restrained from its desire to circle round and drive them back . |
| 20 | There are plans to set up a fund in her name to assist up and coming wildlife film-makers . |
| 21 | She flicked him a perfunctory smile , seeing the mockery lingering in his dark eyes in a way that made her itch to reach out and slap him . |
| 22 | The beast , it has been alleged , flies away from trouble : if surprised away from its burrow , it starts running , then opens its fringes to take off and glide for up to 20 yards . |
| 23 | Every tribe has its own core of Big'uns waiting their chance to take over and becomes the tribe 's chieftain . |
| 24 | They looked after about fifteen children from dawn to dusk and it was in their belief to take in and embrace all children in the love and light of Zephandra Butolphi . |
| 25 | It was her habit to drop in and see her daughter most mornings , and to take tea and chatter , a habit that John Carter frowned upon , as it interrupted Rhoda in her household duties . |
| 26 | to wait for her midwifery to come through and then er they 've closed that |
| 27 | While most cavalry lack the rank bonus , their ability to charge in and kill large numbers of enemies before that enemy even gets to strike back means that they are just as capable of inflicting catastrophic defeat . |
| 28 | Moreover , since their condition limits their ability to pick up and assimilate new words and to understand the subtleties of language , the problem becomes greater as more specialised vocabulary and abstract terms are introduced . |
| 29 | Its ability to weave in and out of the enemies is unbelievable , and turning back on yourself sends it into a tight mid-air manoeuvre that would tax a Harrier jump jet ! |
| 30 | It was n't until later when she was helping her mother to wash up and her father was still outside with Jennifer that Rachel had the opportunity to explain the situation . |