Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Sir Geoffrey were to ask you to carry on for a bit longer , would you be willing to do so ? " |
| 2 | Initially , all that is required of volunteers is for them to go along to a clinic where a small sample of blood is taken . |
| 3 | It was Alexander , formerly of Barnet , who demanded the only save Steve Ogrizovic was required to make — a low shot from the edge of the area forcing the man-mountain goalkeeper to go down with a motion usually greeted with cries of ‘ timber ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ You always leave your hair hanging down like a hippy too , ’ he continued . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's probably only one of the local kids sneaking in for a look around , ’ Jessamy tried to reassure herself . |
| 6 | He was awarded a benefit match with Jack Edwards on 17 October 1955 , when Leyton Orient were our visitors , but in March 1956 he inevitably moved on to a club where the immediate prospects were considerably brighter then at Selhurst Park . |
| 7 | Yet there is no doubt that they have an active , social life , full of real and caring communication , carried on in a language quite alien to our own experience of mind and meaning . |
| 8 | At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ? |
| 9 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
| 10 | It is n't large , like his château in Brittany , rather it is a charming summer pavilion , with French windows opening on to a terrace all along the façade of the house . |
| 11 | Willie gazed at the gentle way he fingered the udders and at the warm white liquid spurting down into a bucket underneath . |
| 12 | Social problems are crowding in on a city where the body-count for murders rose from a record 1,905 in 1989 to a new record of more than 2,200 in 1990 . |
| 13 | He 'd never looked down on a human before . |
| 14 | In any other season you could have looked down from a ridge just below the pastures where the sheep were grazing and seen the village in miniature , a doll 's farm set in a patchwork of agricultural land that spread across the valley floor . |
| 15 | The blades caught , sparked wildly and crashed down on a head just showing through the welter of foam round their legs , knocking it under again . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm always on the lookout for players who will benefit Derry City and Ian has agreed to come over for a month initially , ’ said Coyle . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm always on the lookout for players who will benefit Derry City and Ian has agreed to come over for a month initially , ’ said Coyle . |
| 18 | When told to sod off by a man well over six feet tall , about fourteen stones in weight , with a four-iron in his hand , and known to be of uncertain temperament , even the most hardened reporter will do just that . |
| 19 | Not only did the train travel fast , it spread fast and soon the world was opening up at a pace not previously imagined . |
| 20 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 21 | The little house , its walls cosily cluttered with treasures of old photos and watercolours was perched up on a hill directly above the old pier , its verandah giving a Raj-like quality and view on life . |
| 22 | Never one to avoid controversy , millionaire screenwriter Joe Eszterhas has come up with a scenario even more controversial than the lesbian ice-pick outrage of Basic Instinct . |
| 23 | If you do n't get the chance to really freshen up with a shower then Femfresh has the answer . |
| 24 | Yeah , but you 've got to come up with a cost somewhere , that 's got to be . |
| 25 | Int he trained up as a welder now ? |
| 26 | Nina was curled up under a bed upstairs . |
| 27 | And that 's why I 'm saying that , leading up to the Donovan Report and because I was caught up in a situation along with my colleagues , that we were changing a system er and you know , a new incentive scheme , that we were increasing production . |
| 28 | Jarvis managed to bowl only at half pace in the match against Hampshire at Basingstoke which petered out into a draw yesterday and he is still being troubled by a sore hamstring . |
| 29 | The fact that it managed to do so stands out with a clarity so insistent that each individual ruler — including Mary Queen of Scots — must be assessed by the extent to which he or she successfully fostered the self-perception that the Scots were a people who mattered . |
| 30 | You 're obviously more cautious than you were before , and erm a lot of kids now they tend to stand back for a while just in case 'cause you can never judge how fast they 're really going to go through there . |