Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they are somewhat late in entering the bids scenario , I believe we should not rule them out since having talked to my partner in Italy , he regards them very much as an niche buyer . |
| 2 | ‘ And then there 's George Harrison on ‘ All Things Must Pass ’ , and The Stones ; I was a massive Stones fan , and like a lot of white middle-class American kids , it was The Stones that led me back into listening to a lot of early blues . |
| 3 | No , it 's Greg and you that got me on to saying that . |
| 4 | ( v ) Allow the cells to spread over the surface for about 30 sec then pick them up by touching the surface of the solution with the plastic-coated slide . |
| 5 | Gollum wins them round by saying how hard done by he is and they take pity on him . |
| 6 | I took them to school for Sports Day and decided to try them out by sprinting across the school gymnasium , and I spiked up the wooden floor rather badly . |
| 7 | Being a Saturday morning the library was full of children quietly selecting their books , taking them into corners to try them out before deciding which to take home . |
| 8 | Charles frowned and cleared his throat , tentatively he took the boots from Hari and kicking off his leather slippers , bent forward and gingerly drew the boots on to his feet , lacing them up with trembling fingers . |
| 9 | It has finally won me over from Excel . |
| 10 | Now we ask er the club to supply er in between us signing them up for to do the cards to them to the consultant erm er getting there getting there to do the assignment could be five or six months . |
| 11 | He was fitted in blinkers for the 1984 Gold Cup but behaved mulishly , twice trying to pull himself up before finishing a distant sixth to Burrough Hill Lad . |
| 12 | I think you children were a delight to them and they would gather round the swimming pool and cheer you on with swimming lessons . |
| 13 | When he gets you he beats you up for leaving him ; you go back and start working for him again ; then you try to get away from him ; he finds you again and you just go on like this all the time . |
| 14 | Over the intervening years , however , the West may be thought to have let him down by declining , diminishing , to the condition of the West Indies : by becoming a backwater , with its Watergate and Ulster , its economic arrests and somnambulistic states of emergency . |
| 15 | All that holds him back from doing it himself is the desire for an heir to the clan — an heir of his own blood ! ’ |
| 16 | I 'm not going to bail him out by jumping into the car . |
| 17 | I was n't sure if it would work so I had to try it out before buying it . |
| 18 | By this time Mum is worried about me , but she covers it up by joking . |
| 19 | or bulking it up with scouring powder |
| 20 | The unsophisticated and desperate ones brazened it out by maintaining a facade of affluence or normalcy by borrowing . |
| 21 | And if we make an appointment to view some places and then we 'll know what time we 've got to doing the shopping and fit it in round taking mum . |
| 22 | I suppose that bearded bloke must 'ave dropped it , I suppose I must 'ave picked it up without thinking and that I went off with it in an absent-minded way . |
| 23 | The telephone was already ringing by the time Folly returned to the flat , and she had almost picked it up before realising that the only person likely to be ringing her was Luke . |
| 24 | Cleaning the sand while in situ can be done with an air powered aquarium vacuum cleaner — I tried it out before replying . |
| 25 | ( It is better to cut a very tiny tip at first , test it out with icing on a piece of paper and then enlarge the hole if need be . ) |
| 26 | Make sure you see it in the shop properly erected and test it out by rocking it back and forth ( as a toddler would ) to see how much it would stand before falling over . |
| 27 | Others talk of blizzards , of cyclones and hurricanes , howling and thrashing , winding themselves up before blowing themselves out . |
| 28 | He made himself over by taking up body-building in the Scottish style — which is long and lean rather than pillows of bulk — and changed his name from Thomas to Sean ( in Edinburgh , he 's still universally known as ‘ Big Tam ’ ) . |
| 29 | my dad this morning he woke me up by pulling me up by the hair , bashing my face into the pillow a couple of times , I just looked at , then go , and I looked at him |
| 30 | You usually do your darnedest to talk me out of getting involved in this sort of thing . ’ |