Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the dancers changed partners , set to each other , backed away , then set again and spun with crossed arms , Donald McCulloch became masterful , gripping the girls ' hands strongly , spinning so hard that the balls of their feet ached on the cobbles , and passing them on with an almost lordly flourish of his arm . |
| 2 | I have enclosed two digests and I would be grateful if you could pass them on to the most appropriate person within your association . |
| 3 | He admires in Horace ‘ the beauty , force and vehemence of Impression : which leads me on to a more rare and entertaining subject , not anywhere ( I think ) insisted on by others ’ . |
| 4 | We shift them down to the so they could n't get onto the cultivated land . |
| 5 | From what I saw the other day , you already have a full biography of me down to the very last detail , even though you 'd missed one or two relevant facts . |
| 6 | By the time he took to do his business , the bank 's video cameras must have had me down as a fairly suspicious character and I was happy to stop fidgeting when he finally turned away from the cashier and headed for the door . |
| 7 | Er very often Australian Aboriginal societies you meet men the corroborees at these ritual gatherings and if you 're one of the club , then in the ritual they 'll tell you , they 'll say hey , you know , you know you know you say where did you get all these kangaroos you know oh we got them over at the so and so ranges or down at the so and so water hole that 's where they all are this week , and this is very important information for man . |
| 8 | Rincewind looked around wildly , and then with wild improvisation drew himself up into a wizardly pose . |
| 9 | Unfortunately for his cause he succeeded in alienating many of the gentry who might otherwise have supported him and in tying himself up in the increasingly convoluted legal knots with which the later Tudors sought to define their rights . |
| 10 | Stylishly made but inherently daft , unlike the other ghost movies Flatliners does tackle the unpaid debts of the past , but only to write them off in the most superficial way . |
| 11 | It is mildly blasphemous , too , to be sent into this breathing world with trillions and trillions of brain-cells , all anxious to fire and to titillate , and to shutter them off against the more vigorous half of human thought . |
| 12 | Work completed , Donald John chauffeured me off to the most concerning and uncertain part of this Western Isles sojourn , the 45 minute ferry boat crossing to South Uist . |
| 13 | Once again , at the very end of this , the longest video of the three , Julian sneaks in some additional MIDI-based information , leading you on to the rather more complex volume three . |
| 14 | I want to let you in on a somewhat embarrassing secret , which is now a secret no longer ! |
| 15 | Self-styled funniest programme on telly HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU dusts itself off after a very poor return to the screen last week with well-known wit Charles Kennedy of the Liberal Democrats . |
| 16 | And obviously longer term if you can get er a victory tonight then obviously it sets you up with a reasonably good chance of of going through from this group because two home wins , a couple of away games to go , and i it would set you up nicely . |
| 17 | ‘ What about asking Albert 's to set you up with a really quiet-looking business outfit for New York ? |
| 18 | Poulenc rarely achieves or even tries to emulate his fellow countryman 's emotional intensity , although the more overtly entertaining and witty numbers can suddenly catch you out with a characteristically bitter-sweet volte-face . |
| 19 | You can turn them up to the most incredible volume and strum them very lightly , and you get a really lovely sound . |
| 20 | The result is that ordinary motorists can now pick them up at the more respectable auctions for less than the price of an everyday family car . |
| 21 | She was just using the fact that I was desperate to hold me up for an outrageously high fee . |
| 22 | ‘ They spend their entire lives trying to match me up with the most unsuitable women you could possibly hope to meet . ’ |
| 23 | In many cases , one may trace them back to a very ancient past , though often the present-day festivals — surviving in the face of what is euphemistically called ‘ progress ’ — retain only a vestige of their former meaning and complexity . |
| 24 | and then feeding them out into the already perilous economy . |
| 25 | Then take back the cards and set them out in an apparently random fashion and challenge a person to play you at pairs . |
| 26 | Mr Gresty , whose business has been broken into several times , said : ‘ I am extremely grateful to the Army for getting me out of a very sticky situation . ’ |
| 27 | Or should she simply let things take their course , give herself up to the almost overwhelming attraction Joss Barnet had for her ? |
| 28 | It seems she dressed herself up in the most provocative way possible when she got into this state and behaved like a caricature of the rich foreigner . |
| 29 | But for me it was Couples 's play of the long 15th that marked him down as a most worthy champion . |
| 30 | Leonora felt very subdued as she followed him down to the relatively peaceful little beach of Lee Haven , where years before Joshua Probert had built a safe anchorage for his boats . |