Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We may produce guidance to local authorities or call them in for private chats ’ . |
| 2 | These include plungers , wormscrews ( for boring into a blockage and pulling it out ) , and scrapers for removing sludge and silt and either pushing it down the drain or pulling it back into the inspection chamber on which you are working . |
| 3 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 4 | Most frogs lay eggs coated in jelly and then abandon them , but some rear their eggs in pouches on their back , in their throat sacs or hold them back in their oviducts . |
| 5 | ‘ You have twenty-four hours to return here with the money or phone it in . ’ |
| 6 | members of staff who may be required to brief candidates or show them around ; |
| 7 | In future , students will be able to take individual Higher National Units or build them up to gain group HNC or HND awards . |
| 8 | The consultant has explained that Tourette 's Syndrome is a rare and unfortunate condition , and he should fucking well know about those , he 's right off the Christmas tree , probably spent half his life sucking strange men 's cocks or taking it up the arsehole in a public loo in the Charing Cross Road . |
| 9 | Then make a Jelly with pipins & put them in . |
| 10 | On the death of her father in 1866 she suffered physical and mental breakdown , confiding in a letter that it was her religion that held her up . |
| 11 | These divergent states are often subjectively perceived as having distinctive characteristics that mark them out as discrete varieties : people can recognize regional varieties such as ‘ Birmingham ’ English , ‘ Yorkshire ’ English and so on , and they often have a fairly clear idea of how such varieties are distinguished from one another . |
| 12 | He seemed to me to be at the mercy of waves that tossed him back and forth between then and now : the real-and-actual and the desired . |
| 13 | But that apprehension was not physical cowardice , rather the fear of defeat and subsequent demotion from big-money fighter to poorly-paid has-been that drove him on . |
| 14 | Girls can be encouraged to take modules in technology without feeling they are committing themselves to two years ' or more work ; low achieving pupils can take a range of modules without suffering the indignity of following a programme that marks them out as ‘ different ’ . |
| 15 | While it is true that cause could be inserted in ( 134 ) , it is significant that the writer has used make with a subject ( " enzymes " ) which actively produces chemical reactions and is even described in the same sentence as an agent that speeds them up . |
| 16 | Davis 's struggle to overcome the racial prejudice that held him back was backed by Sinatra . |
| 17 | And I was deeply shocked at the unanimous vote that brought it about . |
| 18 | For the Stones , satisfaction was the goal : everything would be all ALL RIGHT if we shed the inhibitions that held us back and down . |
| 19 | In the screen of language the words that make him up are no more than some amongst many , a detail in the pattern , as a grotesque might be in early painting , or the straight man in a comic duo . |
| 20 | I du n no it was arranged but it was a a small water boat that took us down , the Flying Kestrel . |
| 21 | Forester set the canvas roll down on the ground and undid the tape that bound it up . |
| 22 | Undistracted by Rainbow 's presence , or by the white noise that pulses continuously around Anya 's troubled soul , I perform a little self examination , to sound out the position of the binding points , and decipher the formulae that pin me down . |
| 23 | But it was the ‘ romance and advance ’ of the pottery industry that lured him back and in 1968 he got the job as works manager at Midwinter , shortly afterwards merged with J & G Meakin . |
| 24 | Apparently it was Miles ' fishing that got them up so early . |
| 25 | Then it was gone ; and Bigwig 's fur was blowing in the whack of wind that followed it down the hedges . |
| 26 | No it is n't erm and erm even those who in , in my experience who did get through there was just an occasional er time when they did n't pass that part of it , they , they , they , they could n't quite manage that , the height side frightened them and er they failed , erm so there 's quite a lot of demands on them and I 'm sure that a lot of women could do it and a lot of women if they had the chance would do it or would , if they were willing to do it , but it 's not something that grabs most women , I do n't think it does , I think it 's the physical side that puts them off , and that is what is the problem with the Fire Service , it is a physical job . |
| 27 | He walked on , climbing the flight of stone steps that brought him up into the Strand itself . |
| 28 | We abandon the support of formal steps that move us out of that grief back into loving life . |
| 29 | Clenching her teeth she pulled the door behind her , heard the sharp click of the Yale lock that shut her out . |
| 30 | ‘ Now , now , ’ Miss Louise called back sharply , ‘ mind your manners and let them in . ’ |