Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
2 | I had visited the apartment at least a dozen times , but I still found the fact of a lift opening directly into a living room incredibly impressive ; a proof of wealth as convincing as the possession of gold taps or of mink rugs or of the girl who waited to greet me just beyond the lift doors . |
3 | Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing . |
4 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
5 | ‘ And you know very well that once you are gone Miss Araminta will throw me out of the house . ’ |
6 | At a fair distance , and without being able to see them clearly in the encroaching dusk , they seemed a friendly lot and we yelled back . |
7 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
8 | The Class 50 refurbishment programme was completed , although they are destined for a short life , while limited work was also carried out on Class 20s , 26s and 33s to see them through to the arrival of new designs . |
9 | Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this |
10 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
11 | There are outright racists holding Tory membership cards and I want to see them out of the party . ’ |
12 | I picked up my briefcase , started out the door and asked the FBI agent on the case to see me downstairs to a cab because I did n't feel very safe in Chicago . |
13 | Phil , his ever-cheerful self , telling me he has stood up his girlfriend to see me through till the end . |
14 | ‘ A French officer called to see me yesterday about the Hamnett affair . ’ |
15 | Gradually , however , Joe came to see me less as an interloper and increasingly as a friend who happened to share both his home and his mother with him . |
16 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
17 | Oh , when she came with the baby and the young girl to see me off at the station , I was unable to speak . |
18 | Peter first came to see me halfway through the golfing season . |
19 | The noise is formidable , for the rocks clatter and bang away down a steel chute that dumps them back on the ground . |
20 | ‘ Pray take my arm m'lady and I shall convey thee hence in the twinkling of an eye . ’ |
21 | Denis Smith says it was an interesting game and his team played well … it was a hard game … but after four defeats it was just the result they wanted and will help build them up for the rest of the season |
22 | He is not just the Pope of the Roman Catholics but a symbol of human beings striving to create institutions and practices which bring them closer to the ways of God . |
23 | ‘ I always wanted to work with a squad of young players and bring them on for a few seasons . |
24 | ‘ You bring them on from the time they 're little , and they think they 've got it made , then — wallop . ’ |
25 | Yes , that was some time ago when I was working as a hostess with the British Council and used to collect meet VIPs at the station and bring them here to the university . |
26 | ‘ He says bring them straight to the first tee . |
27 | Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ( Eph. 6:1–4 ) . |
28 | Paul 's direction to parents is contained in the words , ‘ Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ’ ( Eph. 6:4 ) . |
29 | He would help fructify their holdings , bring them up in the world where they should be . |
30 | If a group is coming to entertain residents , then bring them in after an afternoon nap . |