Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government has also failed in its responsibility for the Health and Sa Safety Executive by restricting year after year adequate resources for them to carry out the function that they were designed for . |
| 2 | you know , below the shadow of both the next two properties , we shall , we shall , you know , just have a brick wall , and if they they just shifted the garage to one end and as far as I 'm concerned it 's an excuse for them to put up the power , that is , |
| 3 | Grandmothers were an integral part of life and so , when the mass emigrations began , it seemed perfectly right and natural for them to take over the running of the families left behind . |
| 4 | And they watched from the sidelines as Mr and Mrs Grierson between them brought up the baby , Carla . |
| 5 | So they sent in four coachmen who stood with whips extended between them to hold back the mob . |
| 6 | However , Melanie has recently been bitten on the arm through diving between them to break up a fight . |
| 7 | But it sits long enough for me to point out the difference between the two species . |
| 8 | Traffic was heavy and this was no day for me to pick up a ticket . |
| 9 | ‘ And if we 're to outwit these giants , there 's nothing for it but for me to call up the Draoicht Suan . |
| 10 | Now you 've made it impossible for me to carry out an interview despite the fact I 've been extremely patient " |
| 11 | I found this sweet little man who fixed up a non-reflex 35 for me slowed down the motor wind so it would n't make a sound fixed in a timer to take a shot every thirty seconds . |
| 12 | Jahangir 's irritation was with the refereeing which , he reckoned , had hindered him throughout the tournament and yesterday he said it ‘ made it hard for me to catch up a couple of points ’ . |
| 13 | He regularly outwitted a host of cartoon criminals with colourful names and faces to match : Pruneface , Shoulders , The Rodent , Itchy , Mumbles and Flat Top all of whom put in an appearance in the film , their prosthetics and make-up masking well-known faces . |
| 14 | Next thing Pa was lunging past me to switch off the machine . |
| 15 | I mean that there 's half of them go down the dock now , they do n't do anything . |
| 16 | And it 's this that inspired the pair of them to set up the Thomas Appeal . |
| 17 | The Babylonian Jews were loyal to the Seleucids ; 8,000 of them fought off an attack of marauding Ga ] atians , according to the Second Book of Maccabees ( 8.20 ) . |
| 18 | This could help to give substance to what is meant by the spiritual dimension , for both of them lived out the kind of character expressed in the middle column of Table 6.1 . |
| 19 | I stood transfixed as two of them shot down the Glacier des Grands Montets carving beautiful turns all the way down beneath the north face of the Drus . |
| 20 | Beautiful women , dressed in anything from the flamboyantly obvious to the understatedly elegant , weaved in and out of the crowds , some of them hanging on the arms of men old enough to be their grandfathers . |
| 21 | Two of them came round a while ago and they said , ‘ Our pigeon 's on your roof , miss , can we go up your house and get it down through your loft ? ’ |
| 22 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 23 | Three girls came into the line of fire , each wearing a student nurse 's uniform , walking quickly , but gossiping as they went , and laughing , their heads constantly turning to whichever of them took up the conversation . |
| 24 | They were jumping up and putting their paws up so they I went up back upstairs and they sk tried to skid up but they were going so quickly that one of them went down the step again . |
| 25 | One of them fell over a coffee table and threw a whole trayful of bits and pieces on Carrie Donovan and Harry Pritchett . |
| 26 | One of them pulled out a revolver aiming it inches away from P C Ray Hall 's nose . |
| 27 | While other shoe makers were suffering from the recession DMs Northampton shoe factory was hiring more staff — there are now 2,500 of them turning out a pair of shoes every 4 seconds . |
| 28 | He was soon joined by his brother and the two of them set up a practice in the Army and Navy Mansions on Victoria Street . |
| 29 | Four or five of them broke down the door of the Admiral Benbow and ran inside . |
| 30 | One of them switched on the light , her finger tips painted with a silvery pearl , and the other switched it off with an animal claw . |