Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When he stood in the middle of the road waving his arms it was only because he was hungry and wanted his dinner , now you 'll have to trundle him about in a wheelbarrow like a dead sheep , you 'll have no time for skirmishing . |
| 5 | The length of these umbilicals means that , in most cases , the tender can not tend the diver in the true sense , and may not be able to pull him back in an emergency . |
| 6 | There is no failure because you have to work it through in a new way at forty or fifty . ’ |
| 7 | You 're supposed to curl it up in a , in a erm in a brush when you blow dry it you know . |
| 8 | So have to hide it up in the wardrobe . |
| 9 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 10 | The ‘ Jowters ’ , too , would purchase some to sell them around in the country districts . |
| 11 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 12 | ‘ He wanted to set me up in a flat he said he owned . |
| 13 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 14 | ‘ If only I had the means to set you up in a house where I could visit you . ’ |
| 15 | In my imagination , I was going to pick you up in a fury of emotion , toss you down on that bed — ’ |
| 16 | Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day . |
| 17 | His head bent towards her and once again Jenna lifted her hands to ward him off in a panic-stricken way , but her fingers felt useless . |
| 18 | This consisted of enrolling one 's child in a private playschool , which sent a car to pick him up in the morning and deposit him back on his own doorstep in the late afternoon . |
| 19 | In addition Drury persuaded one witness to amend his evidence so as to incriminate Cooper , arranged for another to be shown a photograph of McMahon so as to pick him out in an identification parade , omitted to tell the defence of two witnesses crucial to their case , cited another as prosecution witness to prevent the defence from calling him , and bribed two prisoners in Leicester Prison , where McMahon was on remand , to say that McMahon had admitted to them his part in the crime . |
| 20 | The aim was to separate the individual membership section of the Party from the unions and to set it up in a relationship reminiscent of that with the ILP before 1932 . |
| 21 | At that point we could still take water from the aquifer , but we would have to pump it out in the same way as we would from an unconfined aquifer . |
| 22 | ‘ Forget all this romantic stuff about tossing it up , batsmen careering down the pitch to slog it up in the air , and even slipping in the occasional chinaman . |
| 23 | They provided my family and I with currency exchange at competitive rates , advice on aeroplane repairs , free landing and hangarage , free overnight accommodation — and even organised on-the-spot Customs clearance when a friend came to pick us up in a twin the following morning . |
| 24 | Can you trust your skill as a handyman to see you through in an emergency ? |
| 25 | This was a slow process , for Tom had to keep stopping to explain what the words meant , and several times had to look them up in a dictionary . |
| 26 | A{ declaration } is defined in BNF as : Using the " translate and test " instruction , show how a program could be written to check any character string against this definition , and extract the{ ident } s in order to look them up in a dictionary . |
| 27 | It would be best to grow them on in the smaller tank as they are likely to be attacked , if not eaten , by the larger fish . |
| 28 | He took one hand off the controls to sweep it out in a large gesture that took in the whole of the City of London . |
| 29 | ‘ I tried to play it down in the report . ’ |
| 30 | He 'd like to shut me up in a box for the next two years . |