Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a strange land to find myself in and one in which I observed many phenomena . |
| 2 | There are two paths of escalation , one in which the parent gives in and one in which the child gives in ( Wells and Forehand 1981 ) . |
| 3 | They used to have er a a what you call a front room , and then we used to call it the kitchen and then the other place where you wash your pots and the sink in and everything in , it used to be called the scullery in them days . |
| 4 | You know with this new tax coming in and me on my own . |
| 5 | The body shell had been crushed in and anybody in there could only have come out through the windscreen . |
| 6 | A fairly young man in Italian leisure wear from the waist down and nothing but a tan from the waist up appeared from a cabin , ready to repel boarders . |
| 7 | And I 'm there bouncing up and down and what with the heat of the sun and the smell — I tell you , mate , it feels like days . |
| 8 | ‘ My guess is they came for some of Connie Fraser 's clothes , found the place upside down and me on the floor , then when they reported to Bonanza he told 'em to forget about the clothes . ’ |
| 9 | you know just to wipe him down and everything in the morning , he just grabbed that and I could see this thing tipping and I went oh god no , please , because that could of been the duvet , the duvet covers |
| 10 | eventually they went bankrupt , Florrie is an of mine , she used to work there part time and she always enjoyed it , she 's been there say twenty years , she just came back from holiday and found the place is closed down and none of for the past er fifteen months he 'd been there , that past fifteen months none of their part time staff had their stamps put on their cards , so for their , for their pension |
| 11 | Erm well he worked at Newcastle until the seam of coal went through and them at pit worked worked it out that |
| 12 | Hang on lets get , in terms of Stella , has an awful lot of relatively small trivial changes which she will put through and none of us are going to disagree with . |
| 13 | He had returned scores of one over and one under the par of 70 . |
| 14 | Well it 's just erm ah I do n't know , I mean there 's there 's certain things I mean , it it 's like this maths I mean , I I spoke to her erm and she said yes Lee had come on and everything in his maths and I said we the thing is , I said , knowing Lee has difficulty in in th l in the high level maths , yes you do n't want to drop him , but surely I said I 'm willing to help in my spare time , Lee 's willing to do it and I said ca n't you show Lee I said I 'm not I was n't trying to tell her |
| 15 | Discipline was very very strict in those days but of course with the war coming on and lots of those men going to the forces , things changed drastically during that time and discipline was somewhat more lax after the war . |
| 16 | You 've got to do one on the slip off and one on the slip on , at the same part |
| 17 | Ten minutes later in the gymnasium downstairs Lee reflected that if she threw one of the dumb-bells she was using at the wall-sized mirror and it shattered into a hundred pieces around a central trauma , she would wake herself up and everybody around her and get into the local papers . |
| 18 | Thus in the period when Labour was still in opposition in the early part of the war — September 1939 to May 1940 — there were twenty-one by-elections , but only six Labour candidates were put up and they of course were for the previously Labour-held seats : two of these were unopposed and the other four faced candidates of fringe groups , who did not poll well . |
| 19 | It is that to a class of fifteen-year-olds in a co-ed comprehensive school , such a statement told us something influential about the culture in which we were growing up and nothing about gerbils . |
| 20 | plants up and everything for our normal you know , rock nights , I mean we just have the wrought iron up and whatever , but |
| 21 | So we d were n't worried about that , a nice big van we 'd got , it was a big one so we 'd got plenty of room thirteen foot high it was , nice size van for the job , and we filled it up and plenty of space left over , off we went . |
| 22 | It was then a question of waiting to be called up and none of us had any idea how long this would be . |
| 23 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 24 | And I came and , and I did n't think Harlow was for me because I , it was all very built up and lots of roundabouts but the people , the partners were so lovely and er I saw some of the patients and I thought they were very lovely too , so this is where I 've been . |
| 25 | Holly started back and something of the kindness was lost from his face . |
| 26 | They kept nagging at him about all that space he had and how she 'd got nowhere and her dad would n't have her back and her with a baby inside her . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been sniffing around and nothing about this city smells kosher . |
| 28 | I 'd been mucking around and none of my mates like that . |
| 29 | . And he spun right round and he like that . |