Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He preferred outwork : " In a factory you confine them to the hours the master pleases , in the cottage they work very often 15 or 16 hours . " |
| 2 | Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " . |
| 3 | Wash and dry the leaves and tear them into a salad bowl . |
| 4 | take him on the outside , take him on the inside , take him on the outside , inside , outside , let him through outside , inside , in squeeze them between the lot of them look |
| 5 | waves push me to the side |
| 6 | According to Nicholas Clee , from the bookseller J Whitaker and Sons in London , any writer planning to embark on such a book would be advised to create a family living in rural bliss with a gaggle of children then land them in a crisis , preferably involving the central character in an affair with an older/younger man/woman . |
| 7 | Will the hon. Gentleman please lay them on the table ? |
| 8 | Others lay them in the stems , in the roots or in buds . |
| 9 | The corridors of the BBC are long and pea-green ( the 1984 setting of Orwell 's book , reputedly ) , and I followed a uniformed attendant through and round them for the obligatory ten miles before happening upon Studio B10 . |
| 10 | Thunder rolled over and round them from every direction so that Trent had the sense of being in the interior of an enormous drum on which giants beat from all sides . |
| 11 | At one time , the officers if they saw the girls soliciting , used to arrest them , bring them to a police station , they 're finger print , photographed and dealt with . |
| 12 | The EC can neither reverse current trends nor bring them to a halt . |
| 13 | And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest , to the door of the tent of meeting . |
| 14 | It must have seemed to them that Marian and Allen had perished in the flames and their own immediate concern was to remove themselves from the danger of the roof falling in on their heads and from the certain consequence that so conspicuous a fire in the night would be seen by the outlaws and would sooner or later bring them to the scene . |
| 15 | ‘ The initial plan was to put companies together and bring them to the market . ’ |
| 16 | Bring them to the forecourt . |
| 17 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 18 | Bring them to the next lesson . |
| 19 | The plan was to rescue a coach load of Bosnian children from the fighting in the former Yugoslavia and bring them to the safety of England . |
| 20 | Find Gilleis and Adam for me , and bring them to the chapel . |
| 21 | Pot up one or two strawberry plants for a special treat : bring them into a cool greenhouse or conservatory , watering sparingly . |
| 22 | Pot up a hew clumps and bring them into the kitchen . |
| 23 | ‘ Tack up Red Flag , Seashell , Parky and Joe and bring them into the school , ’ she ordered , and the little girls fled away , while Miss Bedwelty gave her new pupils another of her withering stares . |
| 24 | ‘ If we 're acting for the smaller firm it invariably happens , and if and when we 're acting for the larger firm we always identify the key partners in the smaller firm and bring them into the new management team , ’ Mr Llambias reveals . |
| 25 | He believes it should take the parts of our lives that are most sore , most hurtful , most unspoken , most taboo and bring them into the public sphere . |
| 26 | ‘ Bring them into the kitchen , please , ’ she said , her hands clasped tightly together , ‘ I must tell them all the bad news personally . ’ |
| 27 | And after the harvester they would take in those big tramp coles and bring them into the big hay stack . |
| 28 | As with the Cel Editor , you may import a number of different image file types to form your background , and may , indeed , find that you prefer to work on backgrounds in another package altogether , and bring them into the Background Editor only to convert them to the Device Independent Bitmap ( DIB ) format that is native to the package . |
| 29 | Hours in the swamp and when they were going all thick and heavy there , he used to go round about October , just for that one day , and shoot as much as he could , and bring them into the mansion . |
| 30 | They say that monkeys are often badly treated by people who bring them into the country without really understanding how to care for them . |