Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do you want to go to a party today ? |
| 2 | ‘ Do you want to go to a party tomorrow night ? ’ he asked . |
| 3 | There was indeed a steady brain drain ; and some , like Lieberich , had intended to come for a visit rather than to stay permanently . |
| 4 | That 's probably why I want to go for a dump now . |
| 5 | The resultant design has leaned towards a course more heavily weighted towards interviewing skills . |
| 6 | ‘ You are expected to perform straight away and if you are in a front-running car you are expected to perform like a front-runner immediately . |
| 7 | Neither does the inquirer need to come with a programme almost ready made wanting the centre only to book the air tickets . |
| 8 | If you are using a lot of roses in your pressed flower pictures , you may find it worthwhile making up a small stock of finished roses in different colours to save time when you are in an inspired mood and want to concentrate on a design rather than the various techniques involved . |
| 9 | At CeBIT Fair in Hannover Ericsson Business Networks and Intel Corp have been showing an emulation of a jointly-developed personal computer board designed to enable Windows machines to be linked to PABXs : the personal computer is linked to the switch through a standard ISDN-type connection so the micro can receive facsimile messages , voice-mail , video communications and the like — the thing is expected to appear as a product late this year . |
| 10 | Robert tried to concentrate on a spot just above the doctor 's head . |
| 11 | Sustained growth sounds unconvincing in the mouth of the Government because , in the past few years , Britain has grown at a rate well below trend growth and below the OECD average , managing a paltry 0.75 per cent . |
| 12 | She had now reached the age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one . |
| 13 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |
| 14 | Something no-one has done in a balloon before . |
| 15 | The European Community [ EC ] has embarked on a path inexorably leading to the eventual replacement of member countries ' currencies with a single European currency . |
| 16 | Indeed the pace of expansion has slowed to a crawl everywhere , even though much of that expansion in the past has been financed by franchising . |
| 17 | Composed variously of opus sectile ( marbles in a variety of geometric shapes ) , opus alexendrinum ( large slabs of precious oriental marbles ) and opus tessellatum ( pictorial designs made from tesserae , like mosaic ) , over the centuries the pavement has buckled into a surface far from level and has suffered from atmospheric pollution as well as wear and tear of daily use . |
| 18 | In a machine operating at 6000 stitches per minute , the needle thread has to accelerate to a speed close to 100 mph ( 160kph ) , stop , and accelerate backwards to the same speed , and all at a cycle rate of up to 100 times per second ! |
| 19 | I wan , I want to la , I want to live for a bit longer . |
| 20 | Another delightful , old form in which the calyx has mutated into a flower so that one flower sits inside another . |
| 21 | I 've told Pepe to put a notice up that Miguelito has gone for a holiday abroad . ’ |
| 22 | The company aims to extend Jedi beyond System 7 to other environments , including Windows itself , and is expected to arrive as a product late this year or early next . |
| 23 | The company aims to extend Jedi beyond System 7 to other environments , including Windows itself , and is expected to arrive as a product late this year or early next . |
| 24 | The Italian influence on British cooking has resulted in a shift away from traditional classical sauces and stocks towards an emphasis on ‘ something exquisitely fresh , with the least amount of modification in the process of preparation ’ , to quote from an old Tuscan cookery book . |
| 25 | There 's no restaurant , but with so many fabulous menus nearby crying out for your attention , who wants to eat in a hotel anyway ? |
| 26 | Usually , the m-derived section is designed to resonate at a frequency just outside the pass band of the prototype so that its strong resonant attenuation coincides with the range of weakest attenuation of the prototype . |
| 27 | A country once dependent on agriculture , as not only a means of income but a way of life , has evolved into a society almost totally structured around urban industry . |
| 28 | This chart is designed to show at a glance exactly how many rooms have been let and exactly how many rooms are still available to be let and their type . |
| 29 | Nothing in the metal 's fundamentals has changed since a month ago , when the price languished at a seven-year low of $126 an ounce . |
| 30 | I did say that their attitude has changed from a generation ago and I think they are doing more at home than men did a generation ago . |