Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the birds , otherwise what will they have to see them through till spring ? |
| 2 | Switch on and move the appropriate levers on the banks of controllers , and the children come running out of the house , little pink-cheeked creatures half an inch high , who turn to wave at Felicity as she comes out on the terrace to see them off to school . |
| 3 | BELVILLE : Since she is apt to fall into fits or at least pretend to do so , prepare her to see me tomorrow after dinner in my mother 's closet . |
| 4 | A very simple way of collecting examples of people talking is to sit them down in front of the camera and get them to talk to it . |
| 5 | Jonathon now worked on model ships under the eye of Uncle Philip and was learning how to carve them directly from wood . |
| 6 | The Health Education Authority advises parents to introduce fruit juices as late as possible and then to dilute them heavily with water . |
| 7 | Animal-breeders , who accuse him of trying to drive them out of business , organised a protest on May 8th , when hundreds of people sent Mr Sims bits of dog-food . |
| 8 | Except that we can all agree to drive them out by battle . |
| 9 | We have grown too good , kind and sensitive to mow them down with machine guns , starve them out of existence . |
| 10 | ( g ) In Andrews [ 1981 ] Crim LR 106 , a Crown Court judge ruled that s.2(1) ( b ) applies only to bouncing cheques when the creditor has been persuaded to accept them instead of cash . |
| 11 | In the late seventies some people in the mainstream of literary study were inclined to believe , or halfbelieve , these ideas , or to try them on for size . |
| 12 | Indeed any attempt to relate them prematurely to reality may restrict the development of the model . |
| 13 | This is the reason why the relationship between an attributive adjective and its noun is not the same as that between a predicative adjective and its noun ( and why attempts to relate them systematically in grammar are misguided ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Eddy always used to write them out in longhand , ’ said Dyson . |
| 15 | To air clothes when there is no airing cupboard is not only a chore , but an expensive one , while to fail to air all the unworn clothes is frequently to write them off to mildew . |
| 16 | It 's best to find them ahead of time because that gives us a chance to contact them beforehand . |
| 17 | The local coast rescue team used ropes to pull them away from danger after the alarm was raised . |
| 18 | Director of Studies : ‘ We need to start with high expectations , identify who has n't , or ca n't provide colours , then offer to provide them out of School Fund . |
| 19 | Well , you 've written in a article , you say by merely acknowledging our feelings we are less likely to pass them on by osmosis to those who are emotionally bound to us . |
| 20 | Having said all that , you should keep your hands and nails in good condition for yourself and be proud of them rather than try to hide them away from view . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't want a sick woman on my hands — to have to break my journey to cart you off to hospital . ’ |
| 22 | Nails had hoped Biddy would have foregone her offer to meet him out of school the next day , or at least be late so that he would have a chance of escaping her clutches , but when he came out she was there outside the gate on her motor-bike , and there was no escaping . |
| 23 | I then went to see three other patients and returned to review the child about twenty minutes later to find him totally at peace and asleep , with no evidence of any respiratory problem . |
| 24 | Neither are victims of racial harassment always poor women : Ms Z is divorced , lives on her own , and was fortunate enough to secure her home as part of the divorce settlement . |
| 25 | It was so difficult to conjure him up at will now , to truly remember what he was like and bring him to life again . |
| 26 | She at first refuses to help him , suspecting a trap to catch her out in witchery , but as the clerk , Wilekin , persists she finally agrees to solve the problem , accepting twenty shillings in payment . |
| 27 | Her question seemed to catch her more off guard than it did him , and she felt a warm blush rise to her cheeks . |
| 28 | In this encounter and during many others following , as it turned out , his God proved more willing to try him than to catch him up to safety ; and in this trial of his will , Kit Everard failed . |
| 29 | He does n't need his father to bail him out of trouble any more . |
| 30 | The nurse may also come back in the evening , especially in the beginning , in order to help the patient with medicines , such as insulin injections for diabetes , and to position him correctly in bed . |