Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , archaeology breeds rebels who care for nothing but ferreting out the truth . |
| 2 | For them to taketh away with the same greedy hand is no longer tolerable . |
| 3 | Well that 's for me to listening back if I 've , if somebody objects to , you know |
| 4 | My My Lords I I 'm sure it is n't necessary for me in referring very briefly to the amendments to which er I have done er it is n't necessary for me to recount in full the arguments with which Your Lordships are already becoming very familiar . |
| 5 | Periodically I went down into the warmth below , to write up my notes and check them over against the ship 's design plans , which Nils had produced for me before going off with Iain to talk to the Navy Yard people . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's no ’ up tae you tae say when ye move oan . |
| 7 | He had n't the truth out of me for going on three days . |
| 8 | I do n't know why women like to taunt me , but they seem to grow fonder of me by doing so . |
| 9 | Six Hampdens were lost , three of them through running out of fuel on the return . |
| 10 | The Government is currently reviewing all the laboratories to identify how best to build on the progress made by each of them towards becoming more commercial and cost-conscious organisations . |
| 11 | When 5 Corps had first been informed by Gen Schmidt-Richberg of the approach of 600,000 Germans and Croats to the southern edge of the Corps area on the evening of 13 May , it had been assumed that this huge mass of fugitives was on the verge of entering Austria and that it would be difficult to prevent all of them from doing so . |
| 12 | Indeed he had a strong feeling that only his six foot four inches prevented one of them from saying so . |
| 13 | Up to the autumn of 1960 the underlying divergences between himself and Debré had not prevented the two of them from working together closely ; after de Gaulle 's speech in November 1960 , the policy became less collaborative and more than ever the exclusive domain of the presidency . |
| 14 | The process by which colleagues are kept informed may differ from what is expected of them in building up either a school development plan or a scheme of quality assurance . |
| 15 | Zhukov had posed the photograph with two of his ‘ models ’ , then meticulously superimposed the face of Mikhail Vologsky upon one of them before touching up and re-photographing the composite . |
| 16 | It is not possible here to attempt to unravel the many strands of thought and practice that have historically influenced the contemporary curriculum in this way , but it may be useful to refer briefly to some of them before going on to consider the current pattern . |
| 17 | He 's made it perfectly easy for you , and nobody will think any the worse of you for getting out . |
| 18 | However , it should not be allowed to continue making a nuisance of itself by jumping up at a visitor while they are sitting down . |
| 19 | She would not go out , though she occasionally made a martyr of herself by pointing out that because of the price of baby-sitting , she could not afford to go out : this was as far as she went towards self-pity . |
| 20 | She had to resist a constant urge to glance back over her shoulder to make sure they were not being followed , although she had given fitzAlan enough time to be well ahead of her before starting out . |
| 21 | An inquest 's heard how an experienced woman rider died when her horse somersaulted on top of her after tripping over a jump . |
| 22 | Do n't think of it as taking away one thinking of it , think of it as minus one , a number . |
| 23 | If you find yourself in this difficulty , first try to get out of it by using only compatible drives . |
| 24 | After I 'd explained the problems , Mazzin tried to wriggle out of it by going on about blindfolds . |
| 25 | She tried to get out of it by standing up and stretching as if the conversation was threatening to bore her stiff . |
| 26 | Stewart could argue that it was little more than a playful cuff and Christophi certainly made a real meal of it by falling dramatically to the ground clutching his face . |
| 27 | Nicola took a run at the slope and gained a third of it before dropping nearly to all fours to grab at little ridges and tufts of grass . |
| 28 | The shifts in pace , in tone , in level , come at us without warning , so that even as one part of the brain tries to grasp at this or that , to make sense of it before moving on , the rest responds to the exhilaration of being swept along the verbal equivalent of a ghost railway . |
| 29 | She could n't think of anything except getting away from here ; away from that room with all her destroyed belongings . |
| 30 | It seemed a funny sort of freedom to me when all you saw was poor people working like crazy and getting poorer and rich people not appearing to be doing much of anything except remaining quietly rich |