Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A crash during practice shook him up and badly damaged his car . |
| 2 | Signora Puglia was consulted and she suggested that she should give me private lessons after school to bring me up to the standard of the others . |
| 3 | Even if you had to after Christmas take it back they wo n't know . |
| 4 | Sherie intends to take Neil on holiday after Christmas to help him over his ordeal — after she has bought him the mountain bike he has set his heart on . |
| 5 | Thame 's Russell was then dismissed for dissent taking them down to nine men , from which there was no way back and Headington ran out comfortable winners . |
| 6 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 7 | If a gully is overflowing , try to unblock the grid using a length of stick to clean it out and rinse the gully clean |
| 8 | Would the daughter even remember her father with the perpetual presence of Hope to blot him out ? |
| 9 | The denial of tenderness cuts them off from communication with wives and children . |
| 10 | Each time I asked , you fobbed me off , and now you 're suggesting that I should fix my belief in you without some kind of hook to hang it on . |
| 11 | A glimpse of statue pulled me up short . |
| 12 | Discovering the way of course takes us back to your recalcitrant dealers . |
| 13 | And this of course brings us back to the practical and philosophical implications of the unstable text . |
| 14 | We will of course keep you up to date : any development in the Gulf erm during the next erm fifty minutes or so , so stay tuned . |
| 15 | So it 's sort of can float up because of pull pulling it down . |
| 16 | But he was under exclusive contract to Universal , and they wanted a prohibitive amount of money to loan him out . |
| 17 | He was gon na spend a lot of money converting it back to right hand drive and I said it 's air conditioned and everything in n it ? |
| 18 | Quite a lot of money to get yerself back to England , if that 's where ye 're thinkin' of goin' . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He made a ton of money ripping them off . |
| 20 | Some sort of clip to hold them in so that erm |
| 21 | She had struggled too hard for her independence and peace of mind to give it up so easily . |
| 22 | The touch of luxury put him off , and so did his work , which he found charming enough but ‘ a little more passion , please ’ . |
| 23 | she was smoking like that so I made her a cup of tea took it in and put it on the stool . |
| 24 | ‘ Nothing like a cup of tea to wake you up . ’ |
| 25 | However , fifteen people turned up ( the same number as the previous day ) , and the goal of completion spurred us on . |
| 26 | No but I mean you 'd gi maybe give somebody a bit of pleasure sorting them out . |
| 27 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 28 | We had almost half an hour of this , then brown , wet walls of rock closed us in , the sound of the engine grinding upwards reverberating in a deep cut , the foglights accentuating the macabre theatricality of our struggle up the path through which Pizarro and his four hundred armoured hidalgoes had climbed to destroy the Inca Empire half a millennium ago . |
| 29 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 30 | A puff of wind swung it round on its vane , and snatched a bunch of twigs from its beak and sent them twirling slowly down the steeple to the ground at Carol 's feet , where they sank into the snow . |