Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] in [art] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
2 | It will not be long before the circumstances in this country — I do not refer to a change of Government at the next election , which I profoundly do not wish to see — allow us to catch up in the two key areas which were subjected to further delay on this occasion . |
3 | Moreover the political parties would have to set up in every one of them the organization required for the preparation of their lists : an obligation they would be very unlikely to contemplate with enthusiasm . |
4 | Like most Chinese children unfortunate enough to grow up in the Sixties , Zeng 's education was severely disrupted by the Cultural Revolution , and he had to sit through the shouting matches and brain-washing sessions just as everyone else did . |
5 | Appreciating that the key to a successful season lies in winning the replay against Portsmouth , Wright has no intention of allowing his team-mates to ease up in the two intervening League games . |
6 | How 're yuh gon na keep'em down on the farm , after they 've seen Paree , they used to sing back in the 1920s . |
7 | I mean , to drive round in a one point six basic Sierra , well it 's pathetic |
8 | ‘ … the idea of pedestrian/vehicle segregation began to take off in the 1950s and much of the pioneer work was done in the new towns . |
9 | Many of the changes that helped to bring about in the 1970s a new , more fragmented and more intractable congress would have happened irrespective of the misdemeanours of the Nixon administration . |