Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was going on through this song it 's ni , bur bur bur bur bur scratch right across the C D. |
| 2 | It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan . |
| 3 | In fact I did one for , for erm one on for two years I think to ab about the same as that , just in pretty colours , but it went on and on . |
| 4 | Despite soldiering on for three days she finally admitted defeat when frostbite of the labia majora forced her to abandon the job . |
| 5 | They had to walk , and a real hike it was — getting on for three miles I think . |
| 6 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 7 | So you can get the three in there , and bung them in as one package you get them while they got them voucher things on offer . |
| 8 | When I first went in for forensic medicine he used me a lot and I got a great deal of experience I would n't otherwise have had because he was never too proud to ask for a specialist opinion . |
| 9 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 10 | Mrs Putt might want a stall cleared out and fresh straw put in for some company she 's expecting , or she 'll want me to hitch up a carriage so she can go visiting . |
| 11 | In between these duties they still managed to have a lighter side , arranging dances at the Institute which became popular throughout the war , and their concert party entertained many during those dark days . |
| 12 | But you see er you know you 'd got to do that so in between those times you could n't do much else could you ? |
| 13 | In between excessive laughter I noticed that not only were SCUM CRAP at the back but they got completely pissed on by the Turkish Delights : - ) ) ) ) ) |
| 14 | In After Strange Gods he continued his investigation , but with an attitude far from simple romantic primitivism . |
| 15 | In any case if they were n't in after three rings I was giving up . |
| 16 | Just bung that in like that seal it down and put a stamp on it . |
| 17 | When Lord John Russell declared that ‘ the whisper of a faction could not prevail over the voice of a nation ’ , he was appealing to moral principle ; and if , when that appeal was made , it chimed in with political expediency it was only because factious and sometimes unprincipled Tory opposition had made it to do so . |
| 18 | Her assistant breezed in with some figures she wanted , just as she was taking hold of the Palmer & Pearson file . |
| 19 | Along with many others they have all been doing their bit for our Decade of Evangelisation . |
| 20 | Along with other actions it became the springboard towards legislative change in Ireland . |
| 21 | And I can honestly say , along with most people I 'm reluctantly coming round to the concept that the probability is that the county will cease to exist shortly , and there 'll be hopefully not more than two other authorities doing the job we 're currently doing . |
| 22 | The Mickey Mouse girl would be sweeping it all into the bin , along with any cockroaches she 'd crushed underfoot . |
| 23 | There was only time to whisper his name before his lips claimed hers in a kiss of such tenderness and passion that her doubts were scattered along with any inhibitions she might have been harbouring . |
| 24 | Down in that dip we will be completely out of sight . |
| 25 | But the pickings could be huge : the audience for RAI 's recorded Italian Sunday football in the United States and Canada may be as high as 50 million , while down in Latin America they hunger for footage of Maradona at almost any price . |
| 26 | There again , I would say that top down in this country it is fast enough , and what shake there is certainly is not accompanied by any rattles or ‘ looseness ’ . |
| 27 | and they 're gon na be , they 'll be sort of down in this area you know |
| 28 | Down in this shop they 're one eighty nine for a packet of cigs . |
| 29 | ability to survive the year in without serious discomfort you know to have another |
| 30 | Good horses they bred down on that road you know . |