Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing . |
| 2 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 3 | The Class 50 refurbishment programme was completed , although they are destined for a short life , while limited work was also carried out on Class 20s , 26s and 33s to see them through to the arrival of new designs . |
| 4 | Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this |
| 5 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
| 6 | There are outright racists holding Tory membership cards and I want to see them out of the party . ’ |
| 7 | Phil , his ever-cheerful self , telling me he has stood up his girlfriend to see me through till the end . |
| 8 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 9 | Oh , when she came with the baby and the young girl to see me off at the station , I was unable to speak . |
| 10 | Like Croydon , Penge U.D.C. had the right to purchase its tramways in each seventh year on granting six months ' notice , but if it did , it had to lease them back to the Company . |
| 11 | ‘ The IAAF must urgently review the situation , for when you make your rules you have to carry them out to the letter of the law . |
| 12 | His first instinct was to fling them out of the window ; to put as much distance as he could between them and him . |
| 13 | Thomas Cook said the merger would create an effective duopoly and tour operators would find themselves ‘ subject to debilitating price wars funded by the dominant position of the duopoly and designed to drive them out of the industry ’ . |
| 14 | Rescuers have tried unsuccessfully to drive them out into the open sea using a line of boats with their engines running . |
| 15 | Is actually to terrify the p poor and to drive them in into a s an under and this is part of their philosophy that they 've been following since nineteen seventy nine under Mrs Thatcher . |
| 16 | ‘ Knocked on the door , said she 'd come to drive me up to the county ground , had a picnic in the car and she hoped I was ready . ’ |
| 17 | I want you to drive me down to the railway station in about half an hour . ’ |
| 18 | " You helped stop me getting the directorship , now you want to drive me out of the Lab . " |
| 19 | Skipper Kim Barnett tells me : ‘ There was a time when the opposition used to like me out of the way quickly because I had a reputation for getting after the bowling . |
| 20 | Windowboxes and other containers often begin to run out of flower power towards the end of summer , but it is usually possible to give them a boost to sustain interest until it is time to plant them up for a spring display . |
| 21 | A sound engineer was supposed to fade them out at the start of the first edition in July '67 , but failed . |
| 22 | The new mothers were ravenous and it was easy to coax them back into the house . |
| 23 | At a signal from Sybil , Rachel helped to coax them out of the water and into the changing-rooms where David was helping Danny to dress . |
| 24 | That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning . |
| 25 | I and er told Lindsey if she 'd ever any problems never to write them down to a friend |
| 26 | Stylishly made but inherently daft , unlike the other ghost movies Flatliners does tackle the unpaid debts of the past , but only to write them off in the most superficial way . |
| 27 | THE Tranmere Rovers players were so high on good publicity before this match that their manager , John King , said he would have to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 28 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 29 | The wheelbarrow seemed to want to shake me off like a steer at a rodeo . |
| 30 | If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter . |