Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mount them on or recess them into a ceiling or down the side of a wall . |
| 2 | There were no brakes , and if I had stumbled , then the bar that ran between the shafts behind me would have caught me in the back and either dragged me along or knocked me to the ground . |
| 3 | er to consider , as to whether whether it would be appropriate to invite the winning schools for er to bring a party in or involve them in the erm Gala Day or e I mean i erm or the open day or something . |
| 4 | come in and use it as a |
| 5 | Please take the time to fill it in and return it to the address below by June 1 1992 . |
| 6 | At this point Sergeant Aitken came in and muttered something in the Inspector 's ear . |
| 7 | Then the door of the Earl 's hall slowly yielded , and his father carried him in and laid him on the same bales . |
| 8 | she was smoking like that so I made her a cup of tea took it in and put it on the stool . |
| 9 | In fact you could bring quite a bit of it in and put it in the fridge . |
| 10 | Right , I got a cheque in my pocket made out to pay cash so she said you can go in and cash it on the counter . |
| 11 | Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment . |
| 12 | Get in and get her in a wheelchair ! |
| 13 | In real-time only seconds had passed , not much more time than it would have taken to see if he was in and ask him for a few minutes of his time . |
| 14 | When you press the Enter key , DOS looks at the first word in the string of characters you 've typed in and compares it to a list of command names stored in the file called COMMAND.COM . |
| 15 | She leaned in and pecked me on the lips . |
| 16 | ‘ Arthur got an electrician to come in and do it during the week . ’ |
| 17 | One Saturday a woman came in and took me to a big room where there was another woman with two children . |
| 18 | Mr Wilbraham , together with one of the Tace managers Don Hammond ( managing director , components ) , and James Carr ( now finance director ) stepped in and acquired them for a consideration of £4m . |
| 19 | Its secondary antennae have become adapted , forming claws with which it digs in and fastens itself to the delicate gill lamellae . |
| 20 | He rushed in and threw himself into a chair . |
| 21 | A hand reached in and grabbed him by the hair . |
| 22 | A hand reached in and grabbed him by the hair . |
| 23 | Of course , the result was , anybody watching you timed how long it took to go from the Dock gate to sign in and put it on the spike . |
| 24 | ‘ Most of our customers are second time buyers who know what they want and expect to be able to just walk in and take it off the shelf like a can of beans , ’ he says . |
| 25 | I was getting caught up in the rat race and thin round the edges spiritually , when the Lord stepped in and reminded me of a promise He made before we left Kent . |
| 26 | You can say that if they do n't keep to the agreed rules of the drama , then the magic will start to fail ; if they climb up the wall-bars when you have asked them not to , you can say that the magic only works when their feet are touching the ground , thus using the fiction of the drama to limit the space they work in and remind them through a dramatic device of those rules which you will have agreed before the lesson begins ( see also the section on " Control " in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 27 | Seeing him kissing you , I felt such a murderous rage that I wanted to storm in and beat him to a pulp . |
| 28 | Cabs , you used to jump in and drive them up the road cos there were no motor cars . |
| 29 | Pop in and enjoy everything from a fine à la carte meal to a chat over a drink . |
| 30 | Extract 1 A : so if there 's a hardware store we could call in and get one on the way back B : do you think there is one A : yes B : OK then * A : that would be nice would n't it ? |