Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 So to while away the time while they waited for dark again they sat in a back room and fiished the waistcoat .
2 But of course then we get to an almost impossible task .
3 Somebody else said , well no , if you do n't open the bottle of wine immediately it looks like
4 I 'm dealing with two estates where no will has been made and the house was in the name of husband alone who died without a will and the net result is that on on law on intestacy neither of the those surviving widows is of right entitled to the house and in both cases there are children and as you can imagine there is a certain amount of anguish about it .
5 Our policy is one of indemnity i.e. it provides for the Claimant to be in the same position after the loss as immediately before it .
6 Between bouts of care there he stays at his mother Rita 's home in Binton , Warwickshire .
7 Aye , cos about six month ago there was a job come up in our office for like a trainee assistant manager type , well an assistant to an assistant manager kind of thing so I applied for it and another woman in the office applied for it cos she 's been here for like sixteen years or whatever .
8 When I got out of prison again I went to a hostel in Manchester and he was coming up there all the time .
9 It is not known for certain at what moment of time afterwards she looked at her fingers , in order to gaze admiringly at the ring .
10 Because he knew I could handle it , he knew I would n't rip him off , and he knew I 'd automatically get treated with respect everywhere I went in the world to represent the company . ’
11 As agriculture had so near a connection with horticulture therefore he kept at the same time an observant eye on everything which occurred in rural economy , particularly the cultivation of ploughed lands .
12 Er er they never , you know when you watch it on television , there 's never trouble in rugby like they do in football is there ?
13 But how do you decide in advance exactly what comes under this head ?
14 The importers were n't reliable , and neither were the craftsmen , especially those who persuaded me to pay them in advance Then I got in a financial muddle because I did n't keep my bookkeeping up to date . ’
15 In man also there seems to be a similar principle to guide him on his journey .
16 I 'll tell you what , when I was in school yesterday I went into a classroom and there , hanging in a classroom , was a skeleton made out of cardboard .
17 I come to theatre regularly I agree with my friend over there I think you have a very good programme quite mixed not all my taste but it 's it 's representative of the tastes of the people who want to come .
18 ‘ As long as it sounds good when I go out on stage then it works for me .
19 On balance then it seems as if this change we have suggested might be a good thing .
20 But I shall urge you no further at present tomorrow I leave for Cambridge .
21 At home there we move in the highest circles . ’
22 We will show him course by course just what happened on Saturday evening — as far as we were concerned .
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