Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His doe has a litter and she was making a noise over them rather like a robin in autumn . |
| 2 | I was a convent-educated girl and he teased me mercilessly with a string of sexual connotations . ’ |
| 3 | I remember Morris willing me on through a mist of deep deep unconsciousness . |
| 4 | Whatever information you can send me to help steer me on to a path to a more rewarding career would be most appreciated . |
| 5 | A government in disarray , an unpopular opposition , they say , will let them in for a taste of real power . |
| 6 | Many people say generally that ‘ there should be no whaling for ethical reasons ’ , but when you try to pin them down to a formulation of those ethics , you find it exceedingly difficult and , I am afraid to say , probably unconvincing to most people of the nations of the world . |
| 7 | Old bushes can be brought back to vigorous life by cutting them down to a foot from the ground at the end of winter . |
| 8 | Oxford Crown Court has jailed two men after hearing how drug squad detectives tracked them down during a trip to London . |
| 9 | From the first moment I saw Inverness Doogie and his Welsh wife , Miranda , I had them down as a sort of suicidal Sonny and Cher . |
| 10 | Cornelius threw up his hands and brought them down amidst a torrent of hair . |
| 11 | Such posts might not carry a large salary , for although Henry VIII had evidently raised the wages of household officials , Elizabeth held them down in a period of rising prices . |
| 12 | Many have a dread of something happening that will plunge them suddenly into a situation of near-poverty , and a few also unconsciously use their financial problems as pegs on which to hang their much deeper fears concerning their health and their future , which they may find hard to face . |
| 13 | This odd instructor shouted at them constantly in a tone of voice that suggested they were clinging to a ledge hundreds of feet above a lava-filled crater , being pursued by leathery-skinned trolls . |
| 14 | But now it was over , and Isay had rejoined them along with a trio of wounded Hearthwares who were being tended in the hall below with their armour stripped off beside them . |
| 15 | So you 've bribed them along with a promise of sweets |
| 16 | They took me along to a service at the North Shore Christian Fellowship on the Sunday after the Night of the Great North Wind . |
| 17 | ‘ Come and fill me in over a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I was in the canteen on Wednesday when the manager called me in about a passenger on my bus , ’ said Mr Bell . |
| 19 | And er Betty called me in for a cup of coffee but and I was there , I think , for over two hours . |
| 20 | History has brought them together as a phenomenon without compare , and it is Pakistan 's good fortune that they are surviving fitness scares long enough to bring many honours to their country . |
| 21 | If they are smaller , staple them together as a pad for rough calculations . |
| 22 | They are given a time , but they never do , if you er , there 's no way you 're gon na get them together as a group for that time |
| 23 | He watched Tom lift two more saucepans from the range and empty them together with a handful of salt into the tub . |
| 24 | A useful test of how effective your section headings are is that it should be possible to string them together into a paraphrase of what the essay says . |
| 25 | You do n't have to gather them together in a group in order for that to be a successful piece of creative activity . ’ |
| 26 | Their words came to me only as a series of hoarse gasping noises . |
| 27 | On the day that Wilson was elected to office , he telephoned me , tracking me down to a restaurant in London , to enquire what to do about the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra . |
| 28 | but I always like a feather for me head |
| 29 | And he says , sells his off at a quarter of a million , per cube . |
| 30 | Well I maybe in a couple of weeks we might but I mean we like to keep it going and then because when it 's when you come on the show you 'd be such a be such a terrific let down |