Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Except that we can all agree to drive them out by battle . |
| 6 | We have grown too good , kind and sensitive to mow them down with machine guns , starve them out of existence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Eddy always used to write them out in longhand , ’ said Dyson . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't want a sick woman on my hands — to have to break my journey to cart you off to hospital . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was so difficult to conjure him up at will now , to truly remember what he was like and bring him to life again . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He does n't need his father to bail him out of trouble any more . |
| 18 | He stopped beside her chair , reaching with easy strength to pull her up in front of him . |
| 19 | I do n't use models so I really have to work it out from memory or imagination . |
| 20 | I do n't use models so I really have to work it out from memory or imagination . |
| 21 | You see well the point was when you pick 'em up erm we had a sm we had a big boat , what we called hanger boat , a very heavy boat and that used to have a wooden so therefore we used to pull it up by hand and pull it ove on a little barrel with a hand power that 's what we used to do and once we got the anchor in board we 'd pull the chain in by hand and then rerun it again right on to the mud and on the anchor again . |
| 22 | She felt Adam 's ribs swell suddenly as he took in a huge breath ; he thrust her away from him , seized hold of the roof slab as if to pull it down on top of them ; and screamed . |
| 23 | He added that the world could not rely on American growth to pull it out of recession , and suggested that Europe should lower interest rates . |
| 24 | Should you wish to pull it out for cleaning , it slides on thoughtfully designed skid feet . |
| 25 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
| 26 | Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing . |
| 27 | Within seconds one of the porters was knocking at the door to escort us down in case of trouble . |
| 28 | ‘ The cards are being sent to the Welsh Office for Mr Redwood 's attention in batches as we are able to sort them out into community areas , ’ said campaign secretary Bryn Williams-Jones . |
| 29 | So I have n't got to pick them up from nursery today , Jayne 's picking them up . |
| 30 | John Delaney knew now that all along it had been hunting them , that it was still hunting them , waiting for the right moment to pick them off at will , one at a time . |