Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] and [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wipe dry and place in a warm oven for a few minutes to remove any remaining moisture . |
| 2 | ‘ Joking , damn you , stand still and fight like a man . ' , |
| 3 | Influential opinion leaders , notably , are better informed , better read , they listen more , watch more and move in a number of different circles of friends . |
| 4 | At first Kon-Tiki 's journey appeared foolhardy , experts said that the raft would become waterlogged and sink like a stone , but the companions went ahead anyway . |
| 5 | She can keep cool and smile in a superior , inscrutable sort of a way . |
| 6 | It needs to be stressed that in a thermal reactor the fuel is near to its most active state and there is no way in which the nuclear assembly can go supercritical and explode like a nuclear weapon ( Coggle , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | Then Miguel Rafaelo appeared among them , dressed in a grey morning suit , a white carnation in his buttonhole , and it was Shelley 's turn to turn pale and draw in a gasp of air as though afraid she might faint . |
| 8 | But it does need to be borne in mind that although this form of sudden death can create such instantaneous reactions there are also people who hide and keep quiet and suffer for a long time before finding the opportunity to talk to someone about their feelings or until another trigger sets them grieving . |
| 9 | It was the sort of evening on which Lydia would normally get drunk and move into a world of her own , high-lighted by strange insights , hectically and artificially tuppence-coloured . |
| 10 | Ooh I 'll carry on watching this and go for a bloody shower ! |
| 11 | If so , you 'll have to spend more and invest in a Flare or a Roller , which would be our second-stage recommendation . |