Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugh 's last scruples about seeing him cut out of the will were satisfied by writing him a personal letter of appeal . |
| 2 | Bless 'em all thank you as well to Radio Nottingham for allowing me to come in as part of my successful bid for Money Spinner . |
| 3 | She gave Charles the address , and looked so happy and excited when she asked the Stage Door Keeper to get her the Wimbledon number , that he quite forgave her for keeping him hanging about in the draughty passage outside his box . |
| 4 | He said he had never seen the drugs before , claiming he had picked up the syringe after seeing it lying around before the party . |
| 5 | Some two hours after landing they moved out of the perimeter in parties of 20 or so , with Michael Burn lopping in the van followed by Donald Roy with the strongly armed assault parties . |
| 6 | After fuelling he nosed up to 50,000 feet , turned to his compass course for Upper Heyford and boosted power to settle at Mach . |
| 7 | ‘ Teachers began to extend their role as educators to the entire community , instead of keeping it closed up in the classroom , ’ says Rafael Cuello of FECODE . |
| 8 | Even Thatcherite loyalists were reported to be discussing the possibility of persuading her to stand down in favour of Major . |
| 9 | They never get a day off , nobody thinks of letting them go off on a training course , they never get the chance to keep up and yet they are expected to be the fount of all knowledge . |
| 10 | She struggled to keep her mind on facts instead of letting it career off in confusion , but her whole vision seemed to be swimming with his devilishly smiling face as he hovered over her , waiting for her answer . |
| 11 | His reappearance in 2010 decisively resolves this , at the cost of making him come on like a Californian religious freak about ‘ something wonderful ’ . |
| 12 | Of course , there 's the question of my present contract , but I feel sure I can bribe the boss into helping me get out of it without too much hassle . ’ |
| 13 | Their value for the reader lies in enlarging or changing our perceptions , in helping us to break out from a deadening routine ; in short , the carnivalesque : ‘ The prophets of extremity put up a distorting mirror against our world — but one which properly attended to , can tell us something about that world , and about the possibilities of changing it , or changing ourselves . ’ |
| 14 | As far as I 'm concerned , the residents come first ; and I expect every member of staff to understand that , right through from helping them get up in the morning to taking someone off to bingo if she wants to go . |
| 15 | ‘ Once they gain confidence in communicating they go on to other courses . ’ |
| 16 | While Jacob was dreaming of Jacob 's Ladder at Beth-El , his head was pillowed on a rock which upon waking he set up as a holy monument . |
| 17 | I was so afraid tonight when you did n't show up that I 'd made the biggest mistake of my life in letting you go back to England without trying to extract a promise from you . ’ |
| 18 | Before leaving I looked around at the disorder wondering what was so important that somebody would go to so much trouble to look for it . |
| 19 | I want well out of it , so course she come in got changed , so he said to me I would like you tomorrow to have a word with Robin about stopping her coming down to us he said because erm it makes me feel very uncomfortable he said and we had that hassle he said it 's a load of nonsense he said I 've forgotten |
| 20 | You can liken it to sticking you hand out of a moiving car . |
| 21 | Outside , the house looks small , but on entering you step down into high-ceilinged rooms that stretch far back . |
| 22 | Without thinking I tagged on to the end of the marching men and within a few seconds was past the SPs unnoticed . |
| 23 | ‘ I was quite worried about making it hold up on the screen for two-and-a-half hours and it gave me pause . |
| 24 | My own tears , hot noisy gulping that burns and blotches , that neither you nor any of the women in the group is going to offer to staunch , tears of anger for myself and all of us , anger with the women in the group for making me face up to what I 'm doing to you , for making me want to take out those dusty bundles of old stories from where they 've lain for my lifetime tied up with pink ribbon and reread them and throw them away . |
| 25 | Because of that , he should not be denied his right to receive care and treatment , aimed at allowing him to get on with life as normally as possible . |
| 26 | Well , i i if I , the , on one of the comments I 'd make is that it 's the only time I 've ever known the accounting profession to do businessmen a favour by forcing them to face up to what the costs of the consequences of their actions are and this has as James said led to looking quite carefully and I think it 's difficult to quantify the cost at the moment for a variety of reasons . |
| 27 | The decision appears to have been prompted in part by an assumption that it would either discredit Heseltine by forcing him to back off from a challenge ( which was thought most likely ) or , if he did stand , give him insufficient time to mount an effective campaign . |
| 28 | It aims , as we have shown , at winning a man over by the power of love and gentle persuasion and by arousing in him a sense of justice rather than by forcing him to submit out of fear and embarrassment . |
| 29 | You curve the surface by making it go down into a hollow . |