Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings . |
| 2 | I think both he and Weatherall are outstanding prospects , but need an ‘ old head ’ to bring them on over the next couple of years ( pity about O'Leary ) . |
| 3 | Based in Minnesota they have had little if any real distribution in the UK until Terry Shearer , who did so much at Spandex to get IBM 's 4250 accepted by the printing industry , took them on through his new company , PrePress Solutions . |
| 4 | He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze . |
| 5 | And still the faint red light up ahead came and went by fits and starts , leading them on across gale-swept open moorland , through massively still pine forests , up exposed dirt tracks and over passes whose names had vanished with the inhabitants of the farms where until a few decades earlier generation after generation of human beings had eked out lives of almost unimaginable deprivation . |
| 6 | Only a bully could have stood up to the bullying party bureaucracy ; Mr Yeltsin has taken them on at their own game and beaten them . |
| 7 | MIKE SLEMEN last night vowed to bring the Springbok celebrations to a halt when the North take them on at Elland Road , Leeds tonight . |
| 8 | WILEY Arfur Daley reckons he 's found a new way to score against the police — by taking them on at soccer . |
| 9 | Do you let them try them on at all ? |
| 10 | course now they 're putting them on at half past four you , your body clock 's well out . |
| 11 | As the dancers changed partners , set to each other , backed away , then set again and spun with crossed arms , Donald McCulloch became masterful , gripping the girls ' hands strongly , spinning so hard that the balls of their feet ached on the cobbles , and passing them on with an almost lordly flourish of his arm . |
| 12 | ‘ Where he used to cut them dead , he now helps them on with their coats . ’ |
| 13 | I turned to the gang and waved them on with my hand . |
| 14 | Do not pull them on with the nuts , but make sure they fit on their own first , then smear copper anti-seize compound onto the wheel face and centre before fitting . |
| 15 | Without putting down the West Coast loonies in so many specific words , Hoffman seemed to be putting them on with his canny deadpan expressions . |
| 16 | Alejandro and his son all stop horses with five-inch curbs and send them on with spurs about the same length . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I sent them on with Kadan . |
| 19 | And sew them on with elasticated cotton so that they ‘ give ’ a little . |
| 20 | The next day , place the black fondant tiles all over the roof , in neat overlapping rows , securing them on with a little water or royal icing . |
| 21 | Hold them on with your , I 'm sure that 's not . |
| 22 | The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house . |
| 23 | Once the new growth has started to emerge , pot them on into new compost , water well and place in a light position on the greenhouse bench . |
| 24 | Coins and pots and pans and weapons and tools and horse tack jangled like a demented musical band , and each time someone fell , the clanging beast would sag , then lift the fallen back to their feet and sweep them on into the courtyard . |
| 25 | I think it opens up the child 's awareness to what 's available and what 's coming erm moves them on into the next century really . |
| 26 | Bill Pritchard hurrying them on towards their objectives around the south entrance bridge ( 'D' ) beyond the old town , although Tiger Watson wanted to clear the Mole first . |
| 27 | I have an idea , however , that he is apt to think out his own operations , try to lay them on without any authorisation from your HQ and then come and offer it to us on a plate . |
| 28 | All the clothes are chosen carefully , so that you can get them on without discomfort to the patient . |
| 29 | She had put them on without thinking , because they were what she had always worn for travelling outside London , but she began to wonder what David 's mother would think of them and to wish that she had put on her good black coat and skirt instead with one of her London hats . |
| 30 | As to the range of fish available , Ken 's policy is to buy in four to six-inch high grade Japanese Koi and grow them on under cover for a year before they go on sale . |