Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [art] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gloved hand — like a fat , black spider — delicately placed the telephone back in its cradle . |
| 2 | There was another advantage late on a lunch-time in that there were always a few city slickers who had ventured north by north-west ( of the Barbican ) to try the Hoskin 's or the Holden 's bitter and found it had got the better of them , so needed a taxi back to civilization . |
| 3 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
| 4 | We 've all put the Worm down to a dusty old legend . |
| 5 | But Simon had never got beyond page 27 , and after that he had merely left the book out in case his mother and stepfather came unexpectedly for drinks . |
| 6 | And they had suddenly taken the dullness out of hers . |
| 7 | In view of Vane 's other commitments , Hutchinson must have had practical charge of parliamentarian naval finance , although it would seem that he was only paid a salary out of the treasurer 's profits . |
| 8 | It sounded as if the thing downstairs had finally torn the cabinet out of its way . |
| 9 | After all , you 've already made a dollar out of me , and you did n't abscond with that . ’ |
| 10 | It was n't something she 'd consciously considered before , just buried the memory along with all the others , but , thinking about it now , she knew he was right . |
| 11 | Oh , I was n't and erm , the next thing I know I 've nearly fucking been bowled over , sort of the bags in fucking look behind me , so those two fucking bought the bags back down fucking legs and I 've just caught this like running round another , another thing , I thought oh fucking little kid , the next thing I know there 's another one gone pass me like , taken the bags , the handles out of the plastic bags , fucking and it was a girl that was going first this time , so I and sure enough there was a little fucking brat boy coming again , so I just went flying he sort of looked up at me and rubbed his eye like that and carried on running after the . |
| 12 | The man who did must have just got a kick out of it . |
| 13 | Something had just kicked the breath out of her body but no , nothing was wrong . |
| 14 | I 've just pulled a man out of the river , two hundred yards or so upstream . |
| 15 | Such a night for a ten-year-old child to be out on the North Sea , as by now she must be , if contrary winds had not driven the ship back into port . |
| 16 | AT Escada , even the passing of the design mantle from the late Margaretha Ley to young Michael Stolzenburg has certainly not set the collection off in a dramatic new direction . |
| 17 | I smiled to myself as I let in the clutch and moved off I would stop at the shop and tell the little man that he could collect his pans without the slightest fear of being torn limb from limb , but my overriding emotion was one of relief that I had not cut the sparkle out of the big dog 's life . |
| 18 | And I have spent all morning saying it can not possibly be true , that you devote all your time to your aunt , that you have scarcely left the house in over a month and all the time you were doing just what you were rumoured to be doing ! |
| 19 | So she said I think that was damn rude she said she 's just slammed the phone down on Deborah and there 's really no need for that , well she said it 's private between me and Debbie , then we found out she got her a job |
| 20 | just taken the knife out of your back . |
| 21 | She wished she had not put the lamp on in the first place because she was sure he would be able to fathom out how she felt . |
| 22 | Plus I lost one stone in weight and this time I have not put the weight back on again . |
| 23 | And someone had just stubbed a cigarette out in Niki 's cake . |
| 24 | Bobo was in for a shock , however , for when he kicked open the door to Sam 's office , he discovered that the President had already taken the matter out of his hands , having blown his own brains out . |
| 25 | ‘ The French have just put a painting up outside our room . ’ |
| 26 | But , that just means the levels of insurance , as a risk , ah , you know , and we 've just put a rate in to , to represent the , the levels of insurance because we charge you more if we insure you for more then . |
| 27 | Why had n't they just put a notice up on the screen half through the scene she was shooting when she died , saying this has to stop somewhere ? |
| 28 | Carson had only just put the phone down after trying to get Alison 's number from Enquiries , but as he 'd waited for his call to be taken he 'd thought of her , perhaps contemptuous of his anxiety and annoyed by his persistence , and he 'd hung up without even making his request . |
| 29 | Fran felt as though someone had just knocked the breath out of her and fought to speak . |
| 30 | For this reason it has always enjoyed a notability out of all relation to its size . |