Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard they were on about moving it to eighteen . |
| 2 | Yeah , well she was going on about bringing lots of money into the college but she might have to pay two hundred and twenty quid for a barn dance band if she 's not careful . |
| 3 | Well they 're on about backdating it to the third . |
| 4 | Erm you , you did , you know , you did summarize with what you thought you , you 'd established erm you went through to , to get your second appointment Steve threw , you know , the objection in about sending it in the post and what have you erm er and , and you o you overcame that erm successfully but I think the other thing that , that with , with the ANNA it , it unless you get that authority the rest of it is meaningless because you know you ca n't go on and , and , well you can agree the needs but there 's no way that he 's , he 's gon na agree to do it now or when you go back or , or even perhaps agree on the amount . |
| 5 | Its real mother will have to be put down after injuring herself during the birth , and the owners fear this could leave the young Arabian horse without the vital care it needs . |
| 6 | Gary McKeown slanted over an inviting ball , but it was criminal negligence for the visitors to allow Gary Paterson the time and space to chest the ball down before burying it in the net . |
| 7 | Gary McKeown slanted over an inviting ball , but it was criminal negligence for the visitors to allow Gary Paterson the time and space to chest the ball down before burying it in the net . |
| 8 | Yeah , it 's like the little ones , they the , the , the , erm , they handle all sorts , and when you comes actually down to seeing it on paper , you ke , it 's alright if they 're just counting it there in the hands and stuff . |
| 9 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
| 10 | I put this down to having lots of plants for the fry to hide in , and my practice of leaving a very dim light on during the night which is controlled by a dimmer switch . |
| 11 | But most of all I put it down to having lots of plants , ( plastic or real ) for cover . |
| 12 | In terms of giving teachers more chances to learn and to develop it comes down to releasing them for as long as they can with some financial help , some doubling-up of teaching and a well-organized use of locally managed funds . |
| 13 | The idea is to grind his victims down by boring them to death . |
| 14 | This seems to suggest a negative feedback loop , driving the quality of research down by depriving it of central funds . |
| 15 | He accused the Government of ignoring the watchdog 's warnings and ‘ intentionally allowing ’ services to run down by starving them of money . |
| 16 | Not to mention the danger you put the members of the Mountain Rescue team in by expecting them to stagger about in the snow with sticks when they should be back home with their slippers on watching McGregor 's Scotland . |
| 17 | Having shown Cade 's pointless destructiveness Shakespeare reins him in by confronting him with more speakers who exemplify the old definition of the orator as a vir bonus peritus dicendi . |
| 18 | The children are not allowed to touch the fish with the paper and try to move it along by hitting it on the floor to create a draught . |
| 19 | erm it does take a lot of effort to move over to meeting them as individual people , and once you 've understood that they are individual people and you get to know their interests and get to know your common humanity , then that 's the point where you want to get on and do something more , but it 's very difficult to recognise the common humanity , and a lot of |
| 20 | Now that is a humiliating experience , so you get through by turning it into a joke . |
| 21 | He drew on it , then took it out of his mouth and nipped the end off before dropping it on the floor . |
| 22 | And then she will take a few days off from seeing anybody except me and do a bit of work . |
| 23 | Police say the attacker drove off without taking anything in a white or grey car . |
| 24 | They do create wealth , but wealth that Thatcher and Co. want to cream off without paying anything in return . |
| 25 | At the same time , inspect and clean the gutters and rainwater gullies , emptying them of leaves and silt — finish off by flushing them with a bucket of warm water . |
| 26 | She also wondered if she had put him off by telling him of her previous engagement and how wary of love it had left her . |
| 27 | We 'd better start off by telling you about the two brothers who run the Minoa , Yanni and Nico who run the bar and enjoy a joke . |
| 28 | And he employs a zig-zag training sprint which involves a series of passes before the player finishes off by flinging himself at a rugby tackle bag ! |
| 29 | But you 're , you 're getting a cup of tea to be we went up through took her for a walk |
| 30 | It is important that we do not get away from the fact that , when any charge is laid , there must be evidence that will hold up for convicting somebody of that charge . |