Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the difficulty with words is probably due to pupils ' problems with the concepts involved and to questions about them being out of context . |
| 2 | Through my head down to the centre of the earth : |
| 3 | And it is not just the newspapers , I 've had more than my fair share of his election missives shoved through my letterbox along with all the other junk mail . |
| 4 | no you give me a pound for my lunch out of there |
| 5 | ‘ As for my standing up for you , ’ he said now , out of the blue , ‘ why do n't you want me to ? ’ |
| 6 | We cut a mask for my face out of a balaclava and made it black with boot polish . |
| 7 | As I waited at the King 's Stairs for my boat back to Venturous I was approached by two very splendidly attired and heavily braided Merchant Service Officers whom I had noticed staring at me curiously during the reception . |
| 8 | John McGuire was slightly the worse for wear after his night out with his wife . |
| 9 | shortly after his arrival back in England he founded the famous Pathfinders , eventually retiring from the RAF as an Air Vice Marshal . |
| 10 | When Darwin delivered his collection of birds and mammals to the Zoological Society for identification three months after his arrival back in England , Gould probably welcomed the opportunity of finding out more about the voyage , particularly the month or so Darwin spent in Australia and Tasmania . |
| 11 | After his arrival back from Siwa , Stirling was driving from Alexandria to Cairo when he was involved in a serious road accident . |
| 12 | Two cooks in white jackets and blue and white check trousers sat on the edge of a table having a conversation about their night out in Lille . |
| 13 | She told Julia that she had put the blame for her child on to one of the Germans who had arrested her . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , ‘ how — how jolly , ’ and then she put her spoon suddenly into her ice cream and the whole glistening thing slid smoothly off her plate on to the shining red table . |
| 15 | The peak of production was reached between 1850 and 1875 , during which period up to 200 men and women were employed in the trade , mainly in Mauchline but with a few in neighbouring villages . |
| 16 | One of the tenants I met looks through her window on to a neat square garden . |
| 17 | Its 1979 census population of about 162,000 was 75.9 per cent Armenian and only 22.9 per cent Azerbaijani , and there had been pressure for some years for its transfer back to Armenia and for a greater degree of autonomy for its predominantly Christian people . |
| 18 | At the same time , there was pressing new business : the setting up of a provisional state in North Africa , preparation for its transfer back to France , supervision of the French war effort , and planning for postwar reconstruction . |
| 19 | Carrie 's young brother was waiting to tie up a brace of barges to a river tug for their journey back to the Royal Albert Dock and he had taken the opportunity to visit his sister and her husband in the dining rooms . |
| 20 | After incubation and the exertions of tending their young , adults require the rest of the summer to regain condition and undergo at least a partial moult , then to fatten again for their journey back to the wintering grounds . |
| 21 | The sense of liberation engendered when the Tiananmen verdict was reversed led sympathisers of the Li Yi Zhe group to bring calls for their release out into the open . |
| 22 | Not even those who share the faith would get much for their money out of this one . |
| 23 | One evening at Pack Meeting Beegee , which was the name the Pack had made up for their Guider out of the initial letters B and G of Brownie Guider , told the Brownies that the County Girl Guides ' Fete was to be held in a few weeks ' time in Morley Park and that the 3rd Shortfields Pack must think what to do to help make the fete a huge success . |
| 24 | Eudoxus scorns this answer , arguing that it is typical of acts with failed human agency ( the ‘ good counsels ’ devised ) to throw the reasons for their failure on to divine agency , ‘ so as to excuse their own follies and imperfections ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
| 26 | It was a bit difficult as I could n't feel what I was doing , but I concentrated on pushing the top of my uterus down through my bottom . |
| 27 | She 's the glow that keeps together our family life my business life at the same time has always been supportive of my involvement in Round Table . |
| 28 | There was the time I took some of my work round for him to look at . |
| 29 | if i can use a div 1 player ( bohinen , forest — tech wonder boy with amazing goals and great moves as a speciality — scored the most memorable goal of my life up to date against italy when we beat them at home 2–1 in the EC qual game on june 5th 1991 — world class defender baresi was on his way to the corner flag — outclassed by a bohinen move — when bohinen put the ball under Walter Zenga — i attended the game and had the perfect seat for that goal — hmm — i got a little carried away here , ehh ? ; - ) ) |
| 30 | If he gave me a shagging I tried my best to get me heel of my boot down on the stair , something of that kind . |