Example sentences of "[adv prt] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Islanders also staged an unprecedented protest demonstration in St Helier on May 13 , during which the Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey , Air Marshal Sir John Sutton , was shouted down as he tried to explain the decision . |
| 32 | And when it was not shouting him down as he tried to suggest that the powers of the courts were adequate , the conference heard Mr R. A. Butler pledge himself to a new building programme of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres . |
| 33 | Isabel Leyland , cut down as she went to collect holiday snaps . |
| 34 | If you send a compressed ZIP file down the wire , V42bis will actually slow things down as it struggles to compress the incompressible |
| 35 | Pulling power may be slightly down as it Deems to fall off quickly against head winds or uphill gradients , when running constant changing up and down with overdrive even on the level . |
| 36 | Marc was saying , ‘ When I gave you that place on your twenty-first birthday , Peter , I foolishly imagined it would help you settle down as you seemed to have no idea what you wanted to do with your life . |
| 37 | The jousting could not be started and the close combat was soon abandoned as it had become farcical , contestants falling down when they tried to wield their weapons . |
| 38 | As you said accidents do happen and things do n't get put down when you need to verify . |
| 39 | The wind and waves pushed me along as I struggled to keep my head above water . |
| 40 | I got myself invited along as I wanted to find out what drove him to travel all the way from Surrey to South Wales nearly every weekend . |
| 41 | Whether that will upset the balance at all because Lewis was a very important for them he kept stepping in when they wanted to change play . |
| 42 | That shop that we went in when we had to go down stairs . |
| 43 | I can only get in when he forgets to lock the door . |
| 44 | In our half-hour chat , I meet Little Brother ( ‘ He always comes in when you want to shag your girlfriend ’ ) ; the Gits ( ‘ They like looking through the obituaries and camping out next to accident black spots ’ ) ; Lee and Lance ( ‘ a couple of garage owners , they spend all their time putting Garfield stickers on cars ’ ) ; and Euro-Man ( ‘ as far as he 's concerned , the Euro-Parliament is just one big Amsterdam squat ’ ) . |
| 45 | She wants this doll , well Julie got it yesterday and said I phoned up , she said you 've got ta listen to this she said I 've just put a battery in when you want to hear it cry . |
| 46 | ‘ The facts that we were quarrelling , that you did jump out of the car and refused to get back in when I tried to persuade you . |
| 47 | Who could take over if she decided to retire ? |
| 48 | The worst mistake is to leave clothes near the patient when he is unattended : he may fall over if he tries to put them on by himself , as he may not yet have realized that he can not balance and move normally . |
| 49 | This is not only likely to be painful for him , but it undermines his stability , so that he can only walk slowly , with constant concentration , and he is much more likely to fall over if he has to change direction or if he is distracted . |
| 50 | ‘ I 've concreted up the mouth of the cave and the gap in the rocks which it burst through because I wanted to hold it there for a bit longer . |
| 51 | And then they allow her got a stone and a half over before she has to start paying again . |
| 52 | The agony that others seem to go through as they try to balance the contrasting facets of their lives leaves Sustad largely unaffected . |
| 53 | The early Vikings believed that the rainbow was a bridge for the gods to walk over when they wanted to visit the earth . |
| 54 | Although not exactly dark , nor scary because Gloria was holding her tenderly , it was stuffy under the blanket and irritating to be covered over when you wanted to look out . |
| 55 | The Rangers defender slipped and fell over as he went to make a routine interception and Atkinson advanced forward to place the ball through Roberts ' legs into the net . |
| 56 | One part-time farmer was killed when struck by a falling tree during a storm while a forestry worker died after a section of a felled tree trunk apparently rolled over as he attempted to handle it . |
| 57 | It happened like this : last Saturday , after the farewell party at Nanking University , I came back to the hotel , and packed my things ready to leave for Shanghai , then about 10.30 I started to feel sick , and it got worse and worse and went on and on until I had to wake up Comrade Wu at about 3.30 and ask her to get a doctor . |
| 58 | I think maybe English men would refer to their car as She or so on if they get to think you know they make things have personalities you start to give them personal pronoun there . |
| 59 | The Reverend Foster 's beady eyes fixed on the children fumbling for their donations as if they were a parcel of juicy worms to be swooped on if they tried to wriggle away . |
| 60 | For the enthusiast , a second innings might be played to determine the outcome , with a side following on if it fails to come within an agreed number of runs of its opponents score . |