Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [det] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was going on through this song it 's ni , bur bur bur bur bur scratch right across the C D. |
| 2 | On and off for I , 500 years it has been served by a community of canons ; but an eighth-century archbishop implanted monks in its precinct , and the canons failed to depart — so that from that time on for many centuries there were two communities competing for the use of the church , and from about 835 for the golden altar which is one of the supreme glories of Carolingian art . |
| 3 | Crump — this would provide an opportunity for a salving weep — Crump would live on for this child herself one day would bear children … |
| 4 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 5 | Projects pencilled in for this year which have not yet started will also be postponed . |
| 6 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 7 | Mrs Putt might want a stall cleared out and fresh straw put in for some company she 's expecting , or she 'll want me to hitch up a carriage so she can go visiting . |
| 8 | In between such examples there is considerable scope for doubt as to where the line is to be drawn . |
| 9 | In between these duties they still managed to have a lighter side , arranging dances at the Institute which became popular throughout the war , and their concert party entertained many during those dark days . |
| 10 | But you see er you know you 'd got to do that so in between those times you could n't do much else could you ? |
| 11 | Just bung that in like that seal it down and put a stamp on it . |
| 12 | She 's moved in with another man who 's an exboxer who knocks me around . |
| 13 | Her assistant breezed in with some figures she wanted , just as she was taking hold of the Palmer & Pearson file . |
| 14 | Along with many others they have all been doing their bit for our Decade of Evangelisation . |
| 15 | That could be recognised in a scheme for supporting lone parents , along with many others who care single-handed for particularly frail or handicapped people . |
| 16 | Larkin died in Dublin 30 January 1947 and was buried , appropriately , in Glasnevin , along with many others who had espoused the nationalist and social causes of his epoch . |
| 17 | And I can honestly say , along with most people I 'm reluctantly coming round to the concept that the probability is that the county will cease to exist shortly , and there 'll be hopefully not more than two other authorities doing the job we 're currently doing . |
| 18 | The Mickey Mouse girl would be sweeping it all into the bin , along with any cockroaches she 'd crushed underfoot . |
| 19 | There was only time to whisper his name before his lips claimed hers in a kiss of such tenderness and passion that her doubts were scattered along with any inhibitions she might have been harbouring . |
| 20 | Two of the Nexus percussionists played on Monday , along with another musician who is one of the finest current exponents of her instrument , the violist Rivka Golani . |
| 21 | Draw up a plan labelled ‘ Weekly Jobs ’ , and write down under each day its special task … |
| 22 | If animals are brought in from another establishment whose diurnal light/dark cycle is different or unknown a few days should be allowed for the mice to acclimatize . |
| 23 | Down in that dip we will be completely out of sight . |
| 24 | There again , I would say that top down in this country it is fast enough , and what shake there is certainly is not accompanied by any rattles or ‘ looseness ’ . |
| 25 | and they 're gon na be , they 'll be sort of down in this area you know |
| 26 | Down in this shop they 're one eighty nine for a packet of cigs . |
| 27 | Good horses they bred down on that road you know . |
| 28 | I mean there 's no , there 's no fee or anything like that involved , so the fact that you 're all seen as members will cut down on any recriminations you might have . |
| 29 | The Department of Transport , the advertising industry and the police have combined to crack down on this menace which is still responsible for so much carnage and misery . |
| 30 | Knuckle down to any jobs you 've been promising all and sundry to do , but have secretly been avoiding like the plague . |