Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between them they came up with a pile of notes and coins . |
| 2 | ‘ Given that I was one of them it came down to a choice between Gower and Gatting . |
| 3 | Some of them I slept out on , others — about half of them — I soloed , which I like doing and choose from preference these days . ’ |
| 4 | But I te I agree with those points , I mean most of them I go along with . |
| 5 | From the little I knew of you it seemed out of character . |
| 6 | In northern France this had been traditionally organized by the institution known as the villa , a country estate of variable size , often more or less the equivalent of a village , where all the land was the lord 's ; some part of it he let out to tenants , some part of it he farmed directly ; but even his own domain was in large measure tilled by the peasant tenants , who held their land in return for services in money , services in kind , and above all labour-services , for a defined amount of work for the lord . |
| 7 | I soon noticed myself rapidly approaching a fallen tree over the surface of the river and as I rushed towards it I clung on to it for dear life . |
| 8 | ‘ While I was enquiring for you I fell in with a party of men who are heading in my direction shortly . |
| 9 | As I was pulling the institutional door of his office shut behind me he looked up from the reading matter he had taken up again and said , ‘ And Ian — ’ |
| 10 | Fastening it behind her she started out across wet turf . |
| 11 | He was hardly aware of moving , but when he pushed the postern closed behind him she stepped back into the gateway , eyeing him with very human caution . |
| 12 | He settled that ‘ whatever he put behind him he put out of existence … |
| 13 | With that behind us we moved on to the interaction of language and context which defines language function ; to the possibility of establishing overall structures of discourse related to particular discourse types ; and to conversational mechanisms ( although they might also be regarded , like cohesion , as formal devices linking smaller units ) . |
| 14 | So with me it started off by taking the top strings off and playing bass . |
| 15 | And sh they she was given erm some sort of oh something to put her to sleep or whatever gas and I know sh she seemed to know what she was doing but this lady that was there with her she passed out with the smell of gas in the room so she was n't much help . |
| 16 | However the Doctor has taken the directional unit from the Monk 's TARDIS and with it they get back to Kembel , knowing that only by returning there have they any chance of thwarting the Daleks . |
| 17 | I backed up onto it I backed up onto it , you know , when I was do ta and I were hoovering away , I thought aye aye ! |
| 18 | and they absconded it , and the dog has n't a hope in hell and also the ones you get for the kids , when you sit in them they sit up like little chairs do n't they ? |
| 19 | With panic inside her she set off in Will 's footsteps towards the town , sobbing . |
| 20 | ‘ The first time she went out in it she came back into the house giggling that she 'd driven through town with the top down , even though it was freezing . |
| 21 | When he opened the door for her she stepped out towards the dark stairs of the barn , her mind still in the bright , airy room , and at the top of the steps she suddenly swayed giddily , pitching towards the stairs . |
| 22 | With the dog at heel beside him they walked round to the rear of the house . |
| 23 | When he discovered their attention was not on him he went back to his books . |
| 24 | So the ideal as far as federal government is concerned is they , they devise policy guidelines and they provide financial inducements to states to implement various programmes but when it comes down to it they run up against the rock of the constitution and the constitution says that the states derive their authority from this sacred document and they are not to be tampered with and the consequence is that America has , not only a federal government , but fifty state governments er and those state governments are large enterprises which enjoy wide initiative and they contributors , contribute to the divi diversity of the United States as a political system . |
| 25 | When we met at the Bacon show and I smiled at him he smiled back at once , then remembered and tried to scowl , but could n't and we both burst out laughing . |
| 26 | But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well . |