Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Although there is no direct evidence that the Baron saw cricket on his visits , he must have been well aware of its traditions of Play Up and Play the Game .
2 I 've got the word count from each one I 'll be able to sort of tot up and tell you when to stop collecting from that area .
3 When insulin was introduced its use in less severe form was continued with the intention of keeping the dose of insulin down and controlling the blood glucose .
4 Wrap little pieces of cellophane around and tie with lengths of thin pink ribbon .
5 I put the glass of whiskey down and lit a cigarette , thinking about it .
6 I said I 'm going to have to clear that and delete a bit of stuff off and load it with and load WordPerfect again .
7 Scrape the bits of putty out and put some filler in that will accept stain .
8 May eighty- nine , only four months later , having had , having had a finger amputated , have received monthly benefits from the time of claim up until going back to work , of thirteen thousand , four hundred and seventy-five pounds .
9 Roll out half to a large square , place the roof-sized pieces of paper over and use to cut out the icing .
10 A friend of mine did it erm they did n't burn the erm the spirit when they 'd finished and erm you know you 're meant to actually put a piece of paper under and burn it under the light or smash the glass and erm for the next six months she could n't sleep properly and it felt like there , she was like tormented and erm things were like pulling at her , her bedclothes and I swear she 's like seeing a psy a psychia psychiatrist and she had to sleep in her parents ' room and everything really scary .
11 and then it winds another piece of paper in and starts printing again
12 Erm if they can keep putting that kind of performance on and showing that sort of commitment then we 'd be all right .
13 big triangles of cloth in and turn them into flares then ?
14 But in the cut-throat world of fashion up and coming designers were to be feared — and already Gary 's reputation was growing .
15 Yeah , right on the sole and cos we used to take them off the iron and put a bit of leather on and grease the uppers with neat's-foot oil and they were really lovely and warm in the winter .
16 Loads cabbage with plenty of butter on or sprout and broccoli
17 He told them there was no point in producing a more expensive , national version of City Limits , the Right-On London listings magazine started by former employees of Time Out and helped into the world by the GLC .
18 On 2 March however , they were called upon to play a more central part in the defence , as Desmond Vincent-Jones relates : ‘ The day started auspiciously when an Heinkel 111 suddenly appeared out of the dawn mist with undercarriage down and started to make an approach to the main runway , presumably mistaking Hal Far for its own base airfield in Sicily .
19 You get some lemonade with cyanide in it and some Coke with cyanide in and see what she drinks .
20 Or make one using a headboard kit from Cover Up and cover it with fabric .
21 ( 1 ) Where the whole amount is paid to the plaintiff ( including interest to payment in if claimed ) the action is stayed save as to costs , or where an order for payment out is required , or where hospital expenses are claimed ( Ord 11 , rr 2(1) , 4 and 6 ) .
22 I do n't do much except look round and think about things — mostly Marie and that .
23 They 've no sooner packed up their waltzers into 150 segments than there 's another bloody Bank Holiday and they 've got to wheel round and reassemble 'em again .
24 Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record .
25 Snatching two minutes on the phone , Graham Massey explains what he likes to spliff up and chill out to .
26 So they 've got to now begin to home in and find out what things they could start to tackle .
27 ‘ I 'm going to send Marler to Finland to nose around and see if he can find out where the missing men have vanished to .
28 Count Tolstoy is refusing to back down and says new evidence will emerge in the next few days which will vindicate him .
29 It is the first draft — one which the officials probably expected Ministers to beef up and argue about .
30 If it 's a river we can find a place to hole up and get some rest .
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