Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem can arise acutely in a situation where Y takes goods from X on ‘ sale or return ’ terms . |
| 2 | Other behavioural strategies included eating slowly in a room away from the kitchen , preparing all food thoroughly before starting to eat , rather than eating standing up during cooking . |
| 3 | They found the babies who were left for longer began to make crawling movements towards the breast after 20 minutes , and after 50 minutes virtually all had suckled correctly at the breast — and were more likely to breastfeed successfully as a result afterwards . |
| 4 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 5 | The River Ure around Langthorpe was badly affected by mid-week floods and no one expected much from a venue still out of sorts for Bradford 's closing fixture . |
| 6 | So the second attitude can flourish only in a climate where the first is general . |
| 7 | Saturday might begin by dividing the participants into small groups of three or four , each composed of people from different communities so that everybody will be encouraged to work together as a team rather than rely on ‘ traditional ’ dominant group-leaders . |
| 8 | They moved together in a dance as old as time until finally Travis slid between her parted thighs , hands going to her hips to hold her tightly against him and feel his desire . |
| 9 | ‘ Sorry , yes , I was carried away for a moment there . |
| 10 | Visual fatigue can sometimes be lessened if the pupil looks away from a task briefly , or closes the eyes for a minute or two . |
| 11 | A PLANE was turned into a makeshift surgery when a doctor was forced back to work early on a flight home from the sun . |
| 12 | Nothing looks more like a junkyard then a junkyard . |
| 13 | Next morning , as Wemmick and I walked back to London , I noticed his face becoming dryer and harder , and his mouth becoming more like a post-box again . |
| 14 | The book begins with the 1950s , when baby manuals indexed ‘ fathers ’ as ‘ for fathers see mothers ’ , and men were ‘ angry ’ , ‘ tough ’ or ‘ queer ’ ; it ends with ‘ a new agenda for the 1990s ’ , described hopefully as a time when men join women in fighting for an end to exploitation of women at work and home , and the ‘ masculinity ’ we have known will come to a timely end . |
| 15 | A LORRY veered off a road and crashed straight into a bathroom where 19-year-old sales assistant Joanna Betts had just stepped out of the shower . |
| 16 | I want you — take me , ’ she whispered , twisting now in a way not designed to keep him away . |
| 17 | This is clearly er erm a situation where erm we must not knowingly take business which we have not enjoyed before at a price below |
| 18 | Indeed the Director of Kenya 's Institute of Education looks forward to a time when a syllabus may be devised which , in addition to a national ‘ core ’ , has specific defined areas where programmes devised at district or local levels will be developed and implemented . |
| 19 | British qualifications in public health medicine fully meet the requirements of the directives and the faculty looks forward to a time when the specialty will be formally recognised in all member states and not only in Britain , France , and Ireland . |
| 20 | Unemployment , which fell from 9.3 per cent in 1989 to 8.8 per cent in 1990 , also began to increase again in a country still suffering from long-term unemployment and labour immobility . |
| 21 | Siegfried 's jaw clenched tight for a moment then he motioned with his hand . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll stay just for a while longer . |
| 23 | He relaxed with a happy grunt , and we lay peacefully for a bit longer . |
| 24 | Try to plan to seat at least six comfortably , and also have some really occasional chairs that can be stashed away in a cupboard somewhere or brought in from the hall or a bedroom . |
| 25 | Grant 's mind was in a whirl as he sought desperately for a way out . |
| 26 | Sit comfortably in a chair consciously letting your shoulders drop and move outward to widen the chest . |
| 27 | The brothers ' crimes against Joseph were met eventually with a forgiveness as large as Esau 's , and this time the forgiveness was received , and given the response it deserved . |
| 28 | Clare 's divorce petition would not be heard until July ; she had been warned by her solicitor not to be seen alone with a man right now , or it might affect her petition and the custody of her son . |
| 29 | In union with him , all of you are being built together into a place where God lives through his Spirit . |
| 30 | We came together as a group almost by accident , but there was a convergence of our experiences and a symmetry to our ideas which made the first few months of our existence one of the most stimulating and electrifying of my life . |