Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you quite like sleeping with the offending partner for other reasons , you 'll need earplugs , a light where it disturbs nobody and a good book till the warm drink you 've made for consolation lulls you back to the Land of Nod — pending the next onslaught . |
| 2 | The gunner looks through his optical sight , lines it up with an enemy tank and squeezes a trigger to fire a laser that measures the range . |
| 3 | We have a press that is free in one sense : it engages sometimes in the most scurrilous reporting and colours it up under the heading of a free press . |
| 4 | What kind of friend hooks you up on a beam over a terrifying machine ? … |
| 5 | Ramblin' Jeff hooks you in with the opening ‘ Goin' Down ’ , a cover of a Don Nix song that lurches drunkenly out of the speakers and sets the mood for the rest of the record . |
| 6 | For anyone that has not seen this effect , the lace carriage is set to ‘ F ’ and instead of taking one stitch off and transferring it to the next needle , the carriage ‘ hops ’ the stitch across from the one it is on and hooks it on to the next one . |
| 7 | But now could move them forward again down this right hand side , he holds it up , fifteen yards inside the Shrewsbury half , turns it in , fields short to David , now takes over , hooks it up towards the penalty area , headed down by , good break for |
| 8 | I suppose that the ‘ great bloke ’ who lives next door … the dearest friend … is used to all that … hands you on like a bloody parcel at the end of the evening . ’ |
| 9 | He copies it again and hands it on to the next , and so on . |
| 10 | on nine , facing Tufnell , digs out a full-length ball and guides it down on the off side , poor old David Lawrence has to give another painful chase their from backward point , but er , he lumbers after it and sends it an energetic return on the er , he 's swivelling round as he threw it . |
| 11 | So Vecchi hi-tails it out to the sanatorium , hangs around until the great man and Rico leave then gives it a few more minutes before walking in and giving Connie another grilling . |
| 12 | hits his clearance to the halfway line , controlled immediately by inside the centre circle , he was unmarked , has to careful here , and he is n't careful , it 's won back by , now he 's got to the right , running into the penalty area , could do with an early cross , holds it up , slips it back , knocks it in to the middle now , jumps , does n't make contact , it 's headed away by and good play now between and , gets it back to , 's clearance , onto the head of , good header on too to . |
| 13 | The travelling showman William Haggar 's The Life of Charles Peace ( 1905 ) may be less achieved but the sympathy it elicits for the ingenious villain who had been hanged in 1879 marks it out as a piece of genuine popular entertainment . |