Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 2 | if we if we get it off the ground at all it may be we 'd want to carry it over till the Autumn and start the new season with it . |
| 3 | There was enough money in her savings account to see her through for a while . |
| 4 | But then , from what I hear , that 's overrun with bairns ; they 've stopped gathering them in from the streets . |
| 5 | I 'm here for one reason — to do a job , and I mean to carry it through to the best of my ability , with or without your approval . |
| 6 | If Walter Smith is going to continue producing them out of a hat from the reserve team like this , Rangers will remain without peer and the rest will have an even greater excuse for abandoning hope before they start . |
| 7 | you know try and get Sometimes in an examination they 'll give you funny numbers like two point five but they tend to work 'em out for you . |
| 8 | The talk was recorded by Russell Mulford and we intend to write it up for the museum . |
| 9 | Agrees to write it off for me . |
| 10 | On a tree-stump beside one cave-mouth , a raccoon sits swatting them down with its paw , munching the little bodies and discarding the skinny wings onto a growing pile on the ground beside it . |
| 11 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
| 12 | Members agreed to pass it on to Durham County Council . |
| 13 | Well I was gon na say you could 've dropped me off at grandma 's . |
| 14 | There are outright racists holding Tory membership cards and I want to see them out of the party . ’ |
| 15 | Do , above all , make time to talk to your son or daughter — particularly if they want to sound you out on the subject . |
| 16 | When by Monday lunchtime there was still no word from him , however , she tried phoning him up at MacKay Contracting — only to be told that he was unavailable . |
| 17 | There can be emergency situations , for instance if your dog cuts its paw or is bitten by a poisonous snake , when you will need to carry it back to the vehicle or home . |
| 18 | " You helped stop me getting the directorship , now you want to drive me out of the Lab . " |
| 19 | They 'll use their experience to try to nurse them back to health . |
| 20 | Thomas Cook said the merger would create an effective duopoly and tour operators would find themselves ‘ subject to debilitating price wars funded by the dominant position of the duopoly and designed to drive them out of the industry ’ . |
| 21 | If in addition we have been brought up in the tradition that to show feeling is a vulgar and lower-class way of behaving , we will seek to drain it out of any situations in which we are involved . |
| 22 | So now you want to unload her on to the wretched Miss Plimsoll in the top form where she will cause even more chaos ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Richardson wants to drive you out of all your strips . |
| 24 | Sullivan has grouped the papers under five topics , and has fleshed them out with excellent introductions to each section and helpful editorial notes throughout . |
| 25 | Doctor what , if that happens Doctor says that the next time he wants to see us along with him . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
| 28 | I do n't need to spell it out for you but the assumption is that he was going back drunk and got hit . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't need to spell it out to you , ’ she said scornfully , ‘ but I will . |
| 30 | You want to shake him off like a wasp on a sunny day . |