Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house . |
| 2 | ‘ Put them on for me , Conroy , ’ she said , leaning back on both hands against the dressing-table . |
| 3 | Keep your front and rear lights in good working order and do n't forget to switch them on . |
| 4 | As the dancers changed partners , set to each other , backed away , then set again and spun with crossed arms , Donald McCulloch became masterful , gripping the girls ' hands strongly , spinning so hard that the balls of their feet ached on the cobbles , and passing them on with an almost lordly flourish of his arm . |
| 5 | You teachers realize well enough what is happening , but teachers have to play the competition game , assessing pupils , pushing them on . |
| 6 | From the drawings , he sketched various elevations , then cut them out and transferred them on to the blocks of wood to be bandsawn . |
| 7 | For a list of members , contact them on : 071 792 2614 . |
| 8 | In the late seventies some people in the mainstream of literary study were inclined to believe , or halfbelieve , these ideas , or to try them on for size . |
| 9 | For a time she became a pony-dealer , buying horses from tinkers and selling them on to English buyers . |
| 10 | ‘ Where he used to cut them dead , he now helps them on with their coats . ’ |
| 11 | He said : ‘ I buy them the same as I buy anything else and pass them on . |
| 12 | Moving on loitering youths is a policing situation ripe for such amplification , as other research has shown ( Southgate and Ekblom 1986 : 35 , 37 ; Young 1971 ) , and there were several occasions when policemen for whom this imagery is very important over-reacted to the presence of young people on street corners and were aggressive in the way they moved them on . |
| 13 | If we move them on to the street , there 'll be more trouble . |
| 14 | Two Commandos had taken their boots off yesterday evening and found after a couple of hours standing to they were unable to get them on again , both feet had swollen badly . |
| 15 | Designed in conjunction with Olympic gold medallist runner Chris Brasher , these boots are extremely lightweight and comfortable from the moment you first slip them on . |
| 16 | They happen to do something where there is an enormous organization geared up to pushing them on to a pedestal . |
| 17 | We check the statements , file them and send them on to the band along with our commission invoice . |
| 18 | Jesus , what does he feed them on ? |
| 19 | Tony and I get up as quickly as we can , brushing the snow free from clothes before putting them on so that it will not melt with the heat from our bodies . |
| 20 | I put them on in the afternoon ; my mother became very silent . |
| 21 | Meet them on : |
| 22 | ‘ Whenever people visit our house , they try them on . |
| 23 | In Pakistan , political sensitivities take priority , for despite Prime Minister Bhutto 's public commitment to a crusade against the drug barons , everybody knows that the new democracy is not strong enough to take them on . |
| 24 | Those who do leave are having problems finding employers who will take them on , or being accepted by new colleagues . |
| 25 | The Italian Football Federation has taken note of Maradona 's remarks and will pass them on to Fifa . |
| 26 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 27 | Both men stood aside to let a big dark-green Jaguar edge carefully round them on to the forecourt of the house immediately to the left of where the BMW was parked . |
| 28 | Spraying the aerosol is the best way to get them on to the enemy , but even this is difficult . |
| 29 | Only a bully could have stood up to the bullying party bureaucracy ; Mr Yeltsin has taken them on at their own game and beaten them . |
| 30 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |