Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If you 're going to sum it up in one word ? |
| 6 | And tell her to pick me up at ten thirty . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | To go one down with nine minutes remaining and with only 10 men , we were up against it . ’ |
| 17 | BUILDER Jim Gladden got his wish yesterday and appeared in the dock — after trying to give himself up for TWO years . |
| 18 | ‘ I had been advised to mark everything up by 20 per cent , ’ Alistair Sampson said , ‘ because the clients ’ decorators would come round afterwards asking for a cut . |
| 19 | Its prime time is shortly before the 8 am news , but it decided to put him on at 8.20 am , when many listeners will be on their way to work . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've had to put her off till two o'clock . |
| 21 | costing us lately , we 're having to get these , I mean we have that on two in the morning to get this room warmed up do n't we have to put it down to one |
| 22 | They have used them already to build communal tents , to extrude life-lines guiding them over plants , or ropes to let themselves down from one twig to another . |
| 23 | Given that our five-frame match is likely to last anything up to six hours at our normal rate of play , I have decided to spring a new psychological tactic on Martin : I shall eat bananas throughout the match , as top tennis players do . |
| 24 | Early March was scarcely the time of year for pleasure-sailing , but the young women insisted on going along ; and wrapping up warmly , they went down to the harbour and found fishermen to row them out in one of their high-prowed cobles . |
| 25 | He was meant to phone me up at four ! |
| 26 | so he said I 've had to , they 'd have to keep him in for ten days or more you know |
| 27 | Then you 'd say well here 's our pie we 're going to share it out between ten people tonight . |
| 28 | ‘ Mind now , Donald , ’ he put in , ‘ or Angus will be telling you to keep it down to forty-nine . |
| 29 | We 're gon na need more than twenty five cos we 're also gon na to send it off to one or two major er er certainly Peter and people like that I think . |
| 30 | Write to jog them along after three months . |