Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such persistence is not easy because there is nothing to go on except the general hunch that there ought to be an opportunity somewhere about . |
| 2 | In the 1987 budget , a " carryback " was introduced for BES investors , enabling them to carry back to the previous tax year relief on up to 15,000 invested . |
| 3 | We had a grand doctor from London once , who told me to go out in the fresh air and try to get well . |
| 4 | In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh . |
| 5 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 6 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 7 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 8 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 9 | He waited for them to pass through into the central chamber . |
| 10 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 11 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 12 | I mean out of the three that he saw and prefer , I must admit he did prefer forty four . |
| 13 | So in that sense , we are not a volume car producer and er the company historically , I mean back through the seventies and sixties was a not very successful volume producer . |
| 14 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 15 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 16 | Once again I met up with the old Frenchman who had invited me into his home . |
| 17 | I push off into the bright sunshine , and across the playground . |
| 18 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 19 | Much weakened constitutionally , I passed on to the next stage . |
| 20 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 21 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 22 | After we 'd agreed the itinerary I got on with the detailed flying planning , using the new French VFR maps and the American TPC ( Tactical Pilotage Charts ) which we bought from Stamfords in London . |
| 23 | How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know . |
| 24 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm happy ’ , ‘ I 'm settled ’ , ‘ Now I know what it feels like ’ , ‘ I got out on the right side ’ . |
| 26 | But once I got out of the splitting shop out into the dry , handling leather rather than skins , er it were terrific , absolutely terrific . |
| 27 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 28 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 29 | So I rounded up my bird-fancying friends ' old copies of Cage and Aviary and studied them until I got back to the very beginning of the season , early March . |
| 30 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |