Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not my intention to stay cooped up in here , waiting for them to go on with their little games . ’ |
| 2 | Old Señor Freitas coughed , before he said , ‘ Sometimes señoritas have families who want them to go back to their own country . ’ |
| 3 | They have n't found their sea legs yet , and a sudden lurch can bring several of them raining down on our faces . |
| 4 | I was , moreover , amused by the juxtaposition of names in the Bedford High Street — Blood , Sand , DeAth : the bullring , of course ! — which made me think back to my Special Subject paper in the Finals , on the Spanish Background of English Literature . |
| 5 | When batteries need to be removed simply tilt the control box and allow them to slide out into your hand . |
| 6 | It was strange , too , Anne thought , that everyone got on with their normal lives , in spite of the constant raids and disturbed nights , and had become used to seeing servicemen in so many different uniforms thronging the streets and the cinemas , and in the public houses she was sure , although she had never been in one . |
| 7 | As he pointed out , it was n't safe for me to go back on my own . |
| 8 | I hope she do n't tell me to go back to my old room , cos I really like sleeping with Marie . |
| 9 | for the empty , unoccupied homes that makes it very difficult for me to go along with my hon. Friend the Member for Torbay ( Mr. Allason ) , who wanted the 50 per cent . |
| 10 | ‘ Here 's me goin' on about my life , and you have n't told me about yours . |
| 11 | The senior man , who had come in from Los Angeles to E.B.I.H.Q. after Erlich had left Washington , he 'd be everybody 's friend , he 'd have them eating out of his hand down at Counter-Terrorism , he 'd probably take out citizenship . |
| 12 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , you wo n't need me eating out of your hand to make me fast or efficient , ’ Luce said bleakly . |
| 14 | Taking a deep breath , she demanded , ‘ Do you deny you want to have me eating out of your hand ? ’ |
| 15 | Few of them got back to their own country . |
| 16 | And I suppose it was instinct that had made me hang on to my thermometer ; the delicate tube was still in my hand . |
| 17 | The balance I have put towards something for us both — a new continental quilt for our bed here — and I got a king sized one , as JOHN always seems to get it all , but this may be big enough to let me hang on to my side . |
| 18 | A whispering shriek of rage and terror behind them made them jump out of their skins . |
| 19 | DEC says it has no plans to licence its SVR4 work to other OSF/1 probables like Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp , fully expecting them to come up with their own solutions in this area . |
| 20 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 21 | And then when we elected erm two people Honorary Freemen of the town , erm I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and their mace-bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the assembly hall which was packed house of about four hundred people . |
| 22 | As a result of the Headmaster 's moods no-one ventured out of their dormitories or classrooms unless it was absolutely necessary . |
| 23 | He left me to wander about on my own for twenty minutes before returning to lock up . |
| 24 | They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations |
| 25 | He pipped me mum and made me jump out of my bloody skin . |
| 26 | I had spent Monday , after a cursory check of the Poles , making one or two repairs and improvements to the Factory , working through the afternoon until my eyes got sore and my father had to call up to me to come down for my dinner . |
| 27 | He 'd remember me , too , because he would have wondered what percentage I had on him that entitled me to come down from her apartment in the early morning . |
| 28 | They had always relied on speed and skill in horsemanship , which enabled them to dash in upon their adversaries , fire off a salvo from their short but deadly bows , and then retreat before any reprisal . |
| 29 | ‘ One can hardly appear wearing L-plates , but no-one stands up for their first performance of a great work saying : ‘ This is the definitive version . ’ |
| 30 | Mind you he also said that David Mellor , Norman Lamont and Michael Mates had nothing to worry about with their jobs . |