Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There is a general expectation that people will not remember detailed facts correctly if they are only exposed to them in the spoken mode , especially if they are required to remember them over an extended period of time .
2 Eventually he paused to lead her along a side-track where the hanging vines reached out to cling about them .
3 To pump it out a new water-wheel was required , suggesting that the old Bonsor East Shaft wheel was too far decayed to repair , or missing altogether .
4 Yeah , just as a , as a side issue , I am interested that they 've been growing plum tomatoes because each year I hear of more and more people growing plum tomatoes successfully in this country and while we are just on the subject of diseases and things to control them , you may remember that a few weeks ago we were giving advice on how we should dispose of waste garden chemicals and , and we said you ought to pour it down an outside drain .
5 There are a number of strategies at your disposal and you can use one or a mixture of them to help you over an unexpected hurdle .
6 For reasons best known to himself Halzman , the senior sonar operator , preferred not to discuss it over an open line .
7 We used to chase them down a narrow valley with a sheer cliff-wall at the end . ’
8 The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished , and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase , I quickly lowered the wick .
9 Mr Field believes he would win easily , and once returned to the Commons would ask the parliamentary party to give him back the Labour whip .
10 If it seems necessary to give it over a long period make sure you fully consider your risk before proceeding .
11 ‘ So why has Madge Grimsilk never offered to run me up a quick ball-dress on the wardrobe sewing machine ? ’
12 DR Robert Jones , who was repeatedly quizzed after the murder of his wife Diane in 1983 , yesterday began an appeal against the General Medical Council 's decision to suspend him over an alleged improper examination of a patient in Coggeshall , Essex .
13 So in order to speed it up a little bit we might need need to heat it up .
14 They did n't drive around in their fathers ' cast-off Rollers ; they pooled their resources , picked up a MkII escort for a hundred notes at an auction and took it in turns to drive it round a disused airfield practising handbrake turns until the car cried enough .
15 ‘ Even though Father always manages to rub me up the wrong way .
16 ‘ Just that I seem to rub you up the wrong way ?
17 You 'll have to have it up a little bit or the same thing 'll happen at
18 We 're going to have to heat it up a little bit .
19 One of these walks used to take them down a narrow side-street in a busy part of London .
20 To take you back a wee bit before that er when you were an apprentice was your tuition from your journeymen quite good ?
21 There were plenty of other boys to follow him down the good physician 's route to Fitzwilliam Square .
22 ‘ If I wanted to bring him down a teeny-weeny heat-seeking missile would do the job very effectively .
23 The action around the fretboard 's upper regions is perhaps tougher than some would like , but there 's enough height at the bridge-saddle to bring it down a fair way .
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