Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [coord] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came before the tent and prostrated themselves on the ground before following their chief to prison . |
| 2 | I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state . |
| 3 | It reads the Touch key when it 's placed on the sensor and uses it as an encryption key to decode data as it 's read and to encode it as it 's written . |
| 4 | ‘ Then , late in the game , Ray Wilkins grabbed me by the shirt and threw me to the ground with a judo throw . |
| 5 | I pick up the bike and return it to the shed . |
| 6 | Dunlop rode the Honda which Gawley has had all year and the plan was for Gawley to take over the bike and ride it at Donington . |
| 7 | Lee took hold of the bike and pulled it over the fence . |
| 8 | She dressed hurriedly , made herself a snack , took the bike and wheeled it round the corner of the cottage into the front garden . |
| 9 | In the absence of transactions costs and the option premium this series of contracts would permit the investor to buy the shares at 220p from the writer and sell them in the market for 237p thus gaining a gross profit of 17p per share . |
| 10 | ‘ Crossing a deceptively smooth glacier surface , the person who breaks into a crevasse suddenly arrives into an utterly vertical world ’ … makes early the good point that any number of trouble-free glacier crossings teach the skier or mountaineer nothing about crevasse rescue ; unless an accident happens , by which time it is too late to start learning . |
| 11 | If Franz Kafka was to re-write The Trial and set it in Hampden Babylon , the novel 's alienated victim would be a goalkeeper , a solitary figure trapped between the posts , perpetually fearing the penalty . |
| 12 | Because the high power electron beam would damage the magnets , a magnetic transport system ( not shown ) injects the beam into the wiggler and removes it at the exit . |
| 13 | He broke free of the lieutenant and threw himself on top of me . |
| 14 | Artur Greisser , a Nazi and the Danzig nominee on the Harbour Board , went to the office of one of the Polish engineers on the Board and threatened him with a revolver . |
| 15 | Lean forward as you rise As in the beach start , by leaning down on a straight front arm you are taking the weight off the back of the board and putting it on the mast foot . |
| 16 | It is , therefore , our intention to seek to increase the range of NVQs offered by the Board and to market them to employers in co-operation with the Chamber movement . |
| 17 | I took the collar off , removed the stones , put the rest in the sack and took it to the gibbet . |
| 18 | ‘ Hello , Margaret , ’ said Juliet , a little disconcerted when the woman lifted the colander and held it before her . |
| 19 | Edouard de Chavigny was a Frenchman ; he understood that women , when abandoned , liked some small remembrance to soften the blow and to remind them of tender memories . |
| 20 | The rubber takes a grip on the shell and forces it between the rollers , which are set at just the right distance apart so that they crack the shell without damaging the kernel . |
| 21 | Having been placed on to three lengths of webbing , six men would be required to lift the shell and put it into the case ; the webs were then cut , as it would not have been possible to withdraw them . |
| 22 | The purpose of serving a contemnor with a copy of the committal order is to enable him to have a written record of the findings made by the court and of the sentence and to provide him with the materials necessary to enable him to decide whether or not he wishes to appeal . |
| 23 | This means one must avoid calling from another room , talking with your face in shadow , walking away before you have finished the sentence or calling something over your shoulder as you go out of the door . |
| 24 | But Inman said : ‘ The referee did not recognise the technique and let her off the hook . ’ |
| 25 | You will then be visited about every five days by a nurse who collects the milk and leaves you with a fresh supply of bottles . |
| 26 | I remember boiling the milk and pouring it on the tea leaves . |
| 27 | Isabel opened her mouth to protest at this cavalier treatment of her clothing , only to shut it again in alarm when he took a step forward and leaned over her , bracing his hands on the mattress and trapping her between them . |
| 28 | The gaoler opened it , took a cresset torch from the passageway and pushed it into a small crevice in the cell wall . |
| 29 | Just under four hours , to phone in the money and let her off the hook . |
| 30 | It was my job to go to all these various places and collect the money and take the numbers on the till and collect the money and put it in a bag , put it in the safe . |