Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I found out today , that I did n't realise she 'd actually passed a c , a beautician 's course , so I do n't know why she 's taught me out of all , has n't taught me how to go on . |
| 2 | If you 've checked them out to your satisfaction , then fair enough . |
| 3 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 4 | Mrs Brocklebank , had she been here , would no doubt have pointed them out with triumph . |
| 5 | You should , we told you you should of had a little dog like ours and it could of ripped them up for ya . |
| 6 | But a fine run of only one defeat in the last eight matches has propelled them back into contention in a duel that looks set to go to the last game . |
| 7 | It was the Officer who had turfed me out of the church yesterday when I was playing the bagpipes . |
| 8 | She could say no more , only after a moment when he did not answer , ‘ Please do n't reproach yourself , my darling , when you have given me back to myself again . ’ |
| 9 | He had joined them out of the press in the midst of a guard of taciturn Merkut troopers who were economical in their employment of the brute force necessary to clear their master 's path . |
| 10 | Sullivan has grouped the papers under five topics , and has fleshed them out with excellent introductions to each section and helpful editorial notes throughout . |
| 11 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 12 | ‘ Simon 's filled me in in glorious detail . ’ |
| 13 | I 've often speculated since on what would have happened if we 'd just given ourselves up at this point . |
| 14 | George had pointed someone out to me in the dayniter , but he was not the right person : grey haired , but too ill-looking , too old . |
| 15 | They used to be Bangor fans but I think I have won them over to Glentoran . ’ |
| 16 | It has finally won me over from Excel . |
| 17 | ‘ He has won me back to him . ’ |
| 18 | Oddly enough , one of Pierre Salinger 's researchers , Linda Mack , while trying to check me out , had talked to another of their staffers , David Mills — the former Newsweek photographer who 'd looked me up on Cyprus in 1987 and sold some pictures to Hurley . |
| 19 | From the beginning of their history , the amphibians were hunters , preying on the worms , insects and other invertebrates that had preceded them on to the land . |
| 20 | They felt that he had let them down in front of others . |
| 21 | To the community at Canterbury he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop , who had let them down in the matter of the primacy of their church . |
| 22 | ‘ Had the care manager stuck to the initial referral alone , which was for respite care , she would have sorted them out for that , and that would have been it . ’ |
| 23 | It 's the inappropriate nature of my clothing that has consistently let me down through the years . |
| 24 | I always reply , ‘ It 's the Sixties for you now , dear , so you get out there and make a wally of yourself ’ — and he has never let me down in that respect , I am glad to say . |
| 25 | I never give up on people — even those who have let me down in the past . |
| 26 | The teacher claimed that the boy put the forceps in his hand , but the pupil said Mr Harrison had picked them up from a desk . |
| 27 | I had this idea they had booked me in for a Caesarean because I 'm small , but had n't told me . |
| 28 | Harvey and Signe had hustled me out of there too quickly . |
| 29 | She marvelled even more though when Cara 's basic efficiency surfaced as she declared , ‘ By my calculations you 'll still have time to get down to Dover after you 've dropped me off at the airport . ’ |
| 30 | Well I was gon na say you could 've dropped me off at grandma 's . |