Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearby , fishermen sort their nets before hanging them up to dry in the tall net ‘ shops ’ that are unique to Hastings ; and delicious fresh fish is always available from the fishmarket . |
| 2 | Females , then , could have more babies than the apes could have , because they would n't have to carry them around looking for food . |
| 3 | In addition to using casual workers to man up for " events " , we also found cases of organisations bringing them in to cope with peaks in what might be termed their " more continuous " activities . |
| 4 | David called Mick Ronson and Woody Woodmansey ( after making ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , they had returned to Hull where they lived ) and invited them back to prepare for the next album , ‘ Hunky Dory ’ . |
| 5 | Then she held the light still and drew me down to kneel beside her . |
| 6 | Milton can not lift Satan to such great heights and put such great speeches in his mouth and then snatch them back denying in his authorial intrusions what he has just proclaimed through his character . |
| 7 | ‘ Victory V. Punks sometimes grind them up to mix with Iranian . ’ |
| 8 | Although it was very rough at first , but I got used with it even when the seasickness caught me up going round the top of the highland , but once he was away from that and er I was n't a drinker in these days but some old man says to me , er before you go to a meal , he says , take a drop of brandy . |
| 9 | ‘ Whether or not I want you around seems to be beside the point , does n't it ? |
| 10 | Well every time I send something out writes to me on bloody DOPACS saying this is not the way to disseminate this information . |
| 11 | The doctor would feel her breasts , find nothing , smile and send her off to deal with a new , an incurable bitterness . |
| 12 | It 's the difference between the person who knocks you down to take your purse and the person who knocks him down to come to your rescue . ’ |
| 13 | John phoned him up looking for a bass player and Cliff gave him my number . |
| 14 | At the start of the decade the 2-Tone bands were keeping everybody up to scratch about racism , and by the end of it a member of Duran Duran had bought himself a house in South Africa . |
| 15 | She reached down with her finger and drew it out covered in blood . |
| 16 | There 's erm there 's always a tension for those of us who are parents , particularly those of us who erm send our children to the state schools , as to erm what 's in the best interests of our own particular individual child and what might be in the best interests of all the children in the area in which we live , and erm this vote was an invitation to think only , very selfishly , of what might be the situation for our children , and I 'm very glad that erm many parents in Banbury thought of children in general living in North Oxfordshire and erm realise that you ca n't just take one limb of an education service and send it off spinning into its own orbit and not expect the rest to suffer . |
| 17 | perhaps she thought , that 's it , I bet she writes it down chatting in the exam . |
| 18 | John Howard Griffin made himself up to look like a negro and passed himself off as one in the southern USA for his book Black Like Me . |
| 19 | Two key objectives : establishing a network and investigator bringing himself up to speed on the French plastic cards and payment systems market . |
| 20 | And every day he spends in bed wastes away a little more of his authority : parliament does n't like sick leaders , it casts them out to die on the cold , cold slopes of the House of Lords . |
| 21 | You can wash melon pips and spread them out to dry before painting them . |
| 22 | As though their own countryside let them down compared to that of Italy , the wealthy English had with them when travelling a Claude Glass through which they viewed the passing landscape from their carriages . |
| 23 | ‘ But knowing Billy he will send them out bursting with pride in the jersey . |
| 24 | I hold them up to look through the paper . |
| 25 | The council may send someone round to look at your home . |
| 26 | But of all Koresh 's dubious activities it was gun dealing that would bring him in to conflict with authority . |
| 27 | Maybe that 's a mistake we 've made and that 's the way we 've turned it round looking at people . |
| 28 | Then you bring your ladder that you 've brought with you for the job and you put it up leaning on this windowsill , so that essentially if that 's the windowsill the end of that table there , it 's up to here you see with the top of the ladder just above the windowsill . |
| 29 | PERHAPS THIS WILL TIGHTEN IT UP Make like a cockroach , the manual said . |
| 30 | With her career , like herself , in better shape than ever , could Cher really give it up to look after kids ? |