Example sentences of "[adv prt] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From now on everyone in the country will have the chance to recommend ‘ deserving cases ’ for an award . |
| 2 | They must be mad to take on someone with her record . |
| 3 | Whilst it may be too much to ask that you immediately take on any responsibility for seeing that the 120,000 weekly NME s are properly recycled ( By heck , we are talking SERIOUS wank — ER ! — SW ) , you could perhaps act responsibly by doing your bit to ease unemployment by taking on someone with the job of disposing of your own rubbish soundly . |
| 4 | But he 'd take on someone like Glenda Grower , who 's a much tougher customer . |
| 5 | You dragged down everyone with you . |
| 6 | Oxford lost 3-1 at Luton and Hereford went down one-nil at home to Crewe |
| 7 | Its chief exports had been sponges and merchant seamen , and those brought in nothing in wartime . |
| 8 | ‘ It would have been easy for me to bring in someone without any experience and ease them into the job , ’ said Stapleton , now 36 . |
| 9 | It was a case of Crawford bringing in someone with whom he knew he could work . |
| 10 | Dryden 's sister Elsie Donnelly said yesterday : ‘ The family was given the option of taking it down ourselves by the council . ’ |
| 11 | His reason is that he can not be sure of what code of manners were followed there and if they were not the same as his it would seem as if he were almost a bully in chasing down someone below his class . |
| 12 | Ampullaria glides along on the muscular foot , by means of muscular waves passing along its under surface . |
| 13 | ‘ Their firms brought in somebody from outside who they treated as a glorified office manager and the culture refused to change . |
| 14 | Work in plenty of well-rotted manure or garden compost into the planting area , and a handful of bonemeal fertiliser for every sq yd to assist root establishment . |
| 15 | Prepare the new border by clearing away all weeds , and digging in plenty of well-rotted manure , leaf-mould or compost . |
| 16 | Choose a spot where they can bask in plenty of sunshine each day . |
| 17 | Dig in plenty of rotted manure , but ensure the ground has settled firmly before planting . |
| 18 | I 'll let yer know in plenty of time , ’ Mary answered . |
| 19 | Put 250g of Chiocciole to cook in plenty of boiling salted water . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've come three weeks early so that we can get in plenty of training , plus the three warm-up games . |
| 21 | Pour in plenty of water to flood it and then replace the soil when the water has soaked in . |
| 22 | Patsy turned in plenty of time , nimbly , quick on his feet as a buck hare . |
| 23 | I give the pink botty a thorough good scrub , putting in plenty of elbow grease . |
| 24 | Their brightest personality , bringing in plenty of votes and therefore money , is a deputy who , under the professional name of Cicciolina , takes off her clothes for reward . |
| 25 | The four-inch-wide gun slits let in plenty of light , although there were electric wall lights . |
| 26 | . He followed a difficult zigzag path from Porlock Weir to Culbone , climbing through woodland which abounded in ‘ wild deer , foxes , badgers , and martin cats ’ ; whortleberries grew in plenty beneath the canopy of trees , and as the ascent progressed , the distant sound of waves breaking on the shore below and glimpses of the Channel and the Welsh mountains were sufficient to fill one eighteenth century traveller with mingled ‘ pleasure and astonishment ’ . |
| 27 | I 'm gon na take down you in detention tonight |
| 28 | Joseph Thomson , the first European to explore Masailand , noted that ‘ they indulged in none of the obtrusive , vulgar inquisitiveness or aggressive impertinence which makes the traveller 's life a burden to him among other native tribes ’ . |
| 29 | Coleridge tells us that after he ‘ had successively studied in the schools of Locke , Berkeley , Leibnitz , and Hartley and could find in none of them an abiding place for [ his ] reason ’ ( Biographia Literaria , ix ) he discovered in Germany the writings of ‘ the illustrious sage of Koenigsberg ’ : Immanuel Kant . |
| 30 | Disappointment at further omission was offset by selection to tour England in 1964 , though he played in none of the Tests , and was troubled by a recurring shoulder injury . |