Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you despair of ever getting the baby 's pushchair anywhere near clean , or perhaps those muddy football and rugby boots , just spend five minutes or so on them with the Steamatic . |
| 2 | Gordon Craig once said that ‘ a bookplate is to the book what a collar is to the dog ’ — a wisecrack not wholly true , since the purpose of the plate is not to enable a book to be led round by its owner , or even for it to be returned by the police when lost . |
| 3 | been round there once or twice after him for a different thing . |
| 4 | As you were aware , they had been involved in Three Hills in er developing Ayletts Field and successfully with us on our our most recent one . |
| 5 | He found himself thinking solemnly about her bone structure , going on and on about it in his head , but put a stop to that because his thoughts sounded like the conversation of fashion photographers . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's a chap — he 's been coming round for years going on and on at me about buying the table . |
| 7 | In parallel with the dependency framework , but distanced theoretically and empirically from it by conceptual innovations and differences of interpretation , is the ‘ world system ’ approach whose origins can be found in the works of Immanuel Wallerstein , particularly his volumes on the modern world system ( see Wallerstein , 1974 ) . |
| 8 | However , the repetitive nature of this type of credit is in itself a barrier against its users weighing up the advantages of credit which does not involve weekly collection — and perhaps against them considering cash as an alternative . |
| 9 | Sometimes the horse stretches out its neck at the horse it is trying to warn off and tosses its head up and down at it in a threatening manner . |
| 10 | The German guard ran up and down beside us like a good natured sheep dog , counting and getting the numbers wrong and counting again . |
| 11 | Diane Bailey , the Curtis Cup captain , seized on the Jacklin example and so did Geoff Marks and all around him at the Walker Cup in ‘ 89 , and their teams responded magnificently . |
| 12 | It was a vibrant time : the flowering of the sixties had lost some of its bloom , but the fruit was ripe and all around us in the protagonists of the new arts . |
| 13 | sort it out and I walked off and like I just walked away and Achil and thingy were laughing at , you know , cos not at me at how crap |
| 14 | As we walked along the track from the car park on that sparkling May morning , swifts skimmed low over our heads after swarming gnats , dainty white lady 's smock swayed in the breeze , and a little owl stared solemnly and unblinkingly at us from the fork of an oak tree . |
| 15 | Silly-Willie danced to his mother 's playing , his feet flashing and tapping and glancing , his ugly body quiet and still above them as a little gravestone . |
| 16 | Claudia did n't like this Roman ; he had changed with bewildering speed from her lover to a man who was withdrawing more and more from her with every word he uttered . |
| 17 | They spoke no Indonesian , even less than ourselves , but talked warmly and directly to us in their tribal language as we did to them in gentle English . |
| 18 | As far as he was concerned , it was the Russians ' mistake and up to them to sort it out . |
| 19 | Nanna wants to have all the er plants picked out of the greenhouse and erm have them all in the trays and up to us by the end of May before they go away on holiday . |
| 20 | But suddenly it turned and galloped at the house and to my horror it leapt gigantically up and straight at me with bared teeth . |
| 21 | Through that illusion she had walked with blessed speed , and out beyond it into a world of other possibilities . |
| 22 | On each side were stalls heaped with fruit , vegetables , fish and other staples , behind which strapping black-shawled women bawled produce and price , oblivious of the packs of snarling dogs and ragged children lunging in and out between them for whatever scraps they could scavenge . |
| 23 | He was at the door and out through it before Gentle could lay hands on him . |
| 24 | His prong began to thrust in and out of her like a greased piston , and she found it slipped up her arse as often as it penetrated her vagina . |
| 25 | There was row upon row of rooms and carpeted corridors , revealed by their tensely-held torches , the ghostly yellow pools of light allowing only the objects that slid in and out of them to be examined . |
| 26 | Then , ducking his head under , he tried to free Gomez 's legs but the line was in and out of them like a cat 's cradle . |
| 27 | It is alleged by the plaintiff that the use of these roads by numerous heavy goods vehicles at night amounts to a public nuisance for which the defendants are responsible : the dock company because it controls the Gillingham Gate and by its operation of the gate and the port in general causes or permits the heavy goods vehicles to go in and out of it at all hours , and the fourth and fifth defendants , Crescent Wharves Ltd. and Ship Link Terminals Ltd. respectively , because as sublessees of the dock company they or their customers send heavy goods vehicles in and out of the port and cause or materially contribute to the alleged nuisance . |
| 28 | Dietary fibre is the substance which makes the waste matter from the food we eat pass through us and out of us at the desirable , speedy , natural rate . |
| 29 | Then he would use this information to chat knowledgeably and sympathetically to them in the lobbies or the smoking room , often concentrating as much upon the opposition as upon his own supporters . |
| 30 | She felt again the presence of the wife , looking kindly and securely at her from the photograph ; do n't resent me , said Helen , I am really neither here nor there , I very much doubt if I signify , you need n't mind . |