Example sentences of "[prep] a [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I shall be fine after a sit down . |
| 2 | All these patients are alive after a follow up ranging from 1 to 7.5 years . |
| 3 | The mind does not expect a swallow until after a chew so now I chew a small piece of biscuit and then pop in the Paracetamol and swallow without difficulty . |
| 4 | RUSH-HOUR commuter traffic was thrown into chaos last night after a phoned bomb threat closed six London main-line railway stations . |
| 5 | ‘ I let him read some of The Journal of a Fallen Angel , as a special treat . |
| 6 | ‘ The Journal of a Fallen Angel ? ’ |
| 7 | Dougal tried to immerse himself in The Journal of a Fallen Angel . |
| 8 | The basic concept of a Streamline Student 's Book is that each page is a complete unit and in most cases the unit has one central teaching point . |
| 9 | You 've seen me in New York and you know what I 'm like there but in LA , man , I tell you , I 'm even more of a high-achiever — all fizz and push , a fixer , a bustler , a real new-dealer . |
| 10 | Sadly though , our local teams were a bit of a let down . |
| 11 | Yeah , that 's a bit of a let down is n't it ? |
| 12 | Now when one goes , there tends to be a sameness which can be a bit of a let down , that you find much the same kind of thing as you would find in a church in Brighton or Lewes going on in Naples , and I do n't know quite how long this will last . |
| 13 | You can either think about doing one that is very literature based which I supposed might end up being sort of a rewrite of a lot of the stuff you can read . |
| 14 | The panel which carries a wave-chevron pattern ( situated between the dividing walls ) is perfectly matched with the radial design and the design of a quartered square . |
| 15 | The result of a JOIN operation is a new wider table in which each row is formed by concatenating the two rows that have the same value in the common domain . |
| 16 | Flush fitting sides mean you get the look of a built in cooker is so desired . |
| 17 | And as I 'm putting you out on your half-day I 'll make it up to you , there will be something extra by way of a thank you in your pay packet on Friday ’ |
| 18 | ‘ No chance of a thank you , then ? |
| 19 | Her classically good diction always became even clearer under stress , so that this statement emerged with the slightly metallic clarity of a dubbed film , and the clientèle of the small café was obviously appreciating every moment . |
| 20 | The cap fixed him securely to the board , with his airborne body trembling behind him like the handle of a plunged dagger . |
| 21 | Some topics which may arise are : the length of worms , and their lack of legs ; the many legs of a centipede ; the slowness of snails and slugs ; the woodlouse rolling into a ball ; the flight differences of butterflies , bees , ladybirds and flies . |
| 22 | Moreover , this is a matter outside my writ , for it is murder , and the king 's justice has the right to knowledge , if not immediately to possession , of the person of a confessed murderer . ’ |
| 23 | A statement which is the starting point of a REPEAT … |
| 24 | The purpose of a REPEAT … |
| 25 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 26 | Meanwhile US figures indicated yesterday that the US economy may be weakening , lifting hopes of a Fed easing . |
| 27 | Do you feel it will be appropriate for , to do a bit of a write up , about that , wh what can be said |
| 28 | Support for my argument that agency care is likely to be used comes from the findings of a follow up survey of a nineteen er sorry , comes from the findi , I I 'll start that sentence again . |
| 29 | Support for my argument that agency care is unlikely to be used comes from the findings of a follow up survey . |
| 30 | Yeah I mean we , we 've got quite a bit of a follow on down in er the Lewisham area |