Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yet this epidemic of self-inflicted slaughter seems to pass us by with little front page news in the national Press . |
| 32 | Wednesday it went very well indeed , yes , I , we made forty four pounds , twenty nine pence on the day and then Betty went to Sawbridgeworth with some cushion covers and managed to sell them off for another five pounds so we got . |
| 33 | Since peasants who still possessed any seed reserves or livestock were excluded from relief , they were compelled to sell them off in some cases in order to survive . |
| 34 | That 's what you 're gon na do , you 're gon na be given a pile full of bits of rubble , shells , all sorts , and you 've got to sort them out to different piles . |
| 35 | A find assistant 's job is to sort them out into different types of materials . |
| 36 | And tell her to pick me up at ten thirty . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 39 | Her children have disappointed and saddened her to the point where she has made the decision to rule them out of future considerations surrounding the throne . |
| 40 | Amphoterics are high foaming and extremely efficient detergents but their expense tends to rule them out for all but specialist applications . |
| 41 | Er sanctifying grace natural grace , you know now they 're it 's all , it 's all help from God but clever thinkers have decided to split them up into various things , just like the way I mean for example er there 's so many different things made from oil , you know er like erm turpentine er petrol , diesel . |
| 42 | Yet to set ourselves up in such a manner contradicts our cherished notion of being part of the community . ’ |
| 43 | They will need to have the skills to talk someone out of another pair of loopstitch socks or convince a lost soul that a key-ring with a thermometer measuring wind-chill factor is not going to change their lives . |
| 44 | ‘ When my name is cleared , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ I 'd like to set you up in better premises , supply you with as much leather as you need and get you an apprentice or two . ’ |
| 45 | Lancashire they used to call it and , we used to , they used to set one on at first and then , as he knocked , if he could knock one off his feet onto his two feet , then he had to help him to knock the others over as they come in close and er , I know they do n't sound nothing like , you know , now but er , in them days we use to think it was great . |
| 46 | A cool shower managed to sharpen her up to normal . |
| 47 | Our attempts to talk him out of this merely provoked his scorn . |
| 48 | No business to lead her on like that . ’ |
| 49 | The worrying thing for other World Cup teams next summer is that , if and when Maradona recovers his best form — and he will most likely do so in June — then the rest of the Argentina side looks ready to set him up for another stupendous tournament . |
| 50 | And , apparently , they 're going to set him up in some kind of arranged marriage . ’ |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | See the thing is , what they 've said to me , because I 've been away now for nearly two years erm I 'd have to go back and do all the training again , which is a bit of a pain but its not too bad because I 've done it before sort of thing , she said to me oh yeah when you go I , I might come along and see if I like it , and we can do the training together she said , I manage to put her off that idea , manage to talk her out of that . |
| 55 | er and and and nice to know that we want to establish contact and you may be aware that we 've had this plan , and , and what we want it to achieve is so and so , and we 'd like to set it up in this way . |
| 56 | We 've had to set it up like that , because sometimes people working late would like to pick up calls , expecting a call , or pick up calls on a different handset , . |
| 57 | Well er if it 's a messy one , the first thing to do with it , is to split it up into little bits . |
| 58 | Even if they do , they tend to cordon it off from other feminist issues . |
| 59 | As it had in 1945 , 1964 and 1974 , Labour would inherit the mess the Tories had left behind , he said , but , this time , with an historic mission to clean it up for good . |
| 60 | I mean , I have n't had to clean it out at all . |