Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deemy was on hand next morning at sunrise to see me off aboard one of the transport planes carrying some 40 young pilots en route to Fairbanks . |
| 2 | The law protected farmers living near subsistence level who needed something to carry them over from one harvest to the next , especially if the harvest had been bad . |
| 3 | If almost everybody who believes in A also believes in B — if the memes are closely ‘ linked ’ to use the genetic term — then it is convenient to lump them together as one meme . |
| 4 | You 're bound to find somebody there till twelve o'clock and any one of them will be able to take you to your destination . ’ |
| 5 | Comrades struggled to get to grips with Bangor 's cavalier attacking play but they had a chance to pull one back on 31 minutes , Paul McGurnaghan threading the ball through the defence only for Davy Armstrong to screw his shot past the post . |
| 6 | Ginny gave him the address and phone number of her office , and arranged to meet him there at 12.45 . |
| 7 | Then he was offered a place on the Work Trial scheme — a local garage offered to try him out for three weeks , without obligation , while the Employment Service continued to pay his benefit . |
| 8 | Before the right hon. Gentleman issues a denial , will he confirm that before the previous election the Tories said that they would continue to pay child benefit as before — only to freeze it immediately for three years when they took office ? |
| 9 | If you 're going to sum it up in one word ? |
| 10 | You 're right ; they ought to pull themselves together at one place . |
| 11 | And tell her to pick me up at ten thirty . |
| 12 | Then he walked over and told me that a Corporal from the Foreign Legion recruiting office at Lille would come to pick me up in two hours ; until then I was free to go for a walk and get something to eat . |
| 13 | Varig knows Brazil best , being able to serve you efficiently through 170 branch offices all over the country , with connecting flights to 77 large towns and leading cities in Brazil and South America . |
| 14 | She had been asked to pick him up at eight thirty a.m. outside his billet at a nearby farmhouse and drive him to Bovington Camp in Dorset . |
| 15 | Bridget O'Brien 's been fighting attempts by Barclay 's Bank to repossess her home for five years and her legal victory was welcomed by others with similar problems . |
| 16 | Oh it 's so funny , cos the second time he could n't , he came back and I think I was upstairs , and she did n't shut the door and I said all four , cos I 've got to pick her up at five , he said oh , anyway he went back , after dinner he 'd gone back and I said told you about it 's five o'clock , he said are you on me . |
| 17 | Jennifer realised that she would have to run for her train if she was to be home in time ; Steven had booked a table at their favourite restaurant and was due to pick her up at 7.30 . |
| 18 | you 're turning sourpuss as well , ho , ho , ho , no I suppose not , she 's coming to pick it up at four thirty , that 's when I get my money which is very nice . |
| 19 | So how far do you actually want God to forgive you up to three times and then no more you know it 's it 's that kind of er question that we 're asking and that we that I feel that is something we should be thinking about that how far should a Christian go in forgiving . |
| 20 | Bosch will be able to buy them out in 1996 for 20.4 times average earnings per share in the previous three years up to a maximum of 394p . |
| 21 | I ca , oh I 'm not bothered about that but I ca n't be bothered to buy one just for four |
| 22 | It is intended to identify it again in 1991 . |
| 23 | When the Orioles ' designated hitter lifts a three-run homer over the right field fence in the ninth to wrap it up at 9–3 , the resigned Sox faithful begin heading for the exits . |
| 24 | The relevant ages of consent in English law vary : 16 seems to be the general age , but the offence of gross indecency with or towards children only applies where the child is under 14 , and the age of consent for homosexual offences is 21 and the recommendation is to lower it only to 18 . |
| 25 | They had to pile it deeper in one corner to make a space to spread the chillies — five lukals of fleshy scarlet pods to be dried a crackling brick-red to last throughout the year . |
| 26 | But in my early days it was quite common for some of the old horsemen to walk anything up to two or three miles , and sometimes more , to bring harness down to the shop . |
| 27 | To go one down with nine minutes remaining and with only 10 men , we were up against it . ’ |
| 28 | Glasgow , already the host for many of the UK 's most innovative arts events , hopes to go one better in 1990 , combining commercial and publicly-funded activity in a year-long cultural feast . |
| 29 | BUILDER Jim Gladden got his wish yesterday and appeared in the dock — after trying to give himself up for TWO years . |
| 30 | He said , No Emma I ca n't there 's no way I can be at a wedding to give you away at nine o'clock . |