Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last Foreman came back , pulling up a chair beside them like some benevolent uncle ready to listen to a story or tell a merry tale . |
| 2 | You used to have to rub all your clothes and on this rub board or get a little brush and and scrub the s collar and your cuffs and then in the salt water and get all them in and then you used to have to ponch them with a ponch or a dolly peg , what used to go round like that you see . |
| 3 | That you do n't take it upon yourself to plead my case or to point an accusing finger at Sandra . ’ |
| 4 | He might have listened to complaints of how stifling an aunt could be when one wanted to wander around London alone , or how one got sick in Venice or Paris , but he could only touch an elbow with mock sympathy or pat a sea-sprayed hand . |
| 5 | Some clergy today still take the view that a suicide victim can not be buried in a churchyard or have a Christian funeral . |
| 6 | Instead of all the problems of finding or developing an appropriate sampling frame , and of drawing the sample randomly from the list , the quota sample is usually drawn by the interviewer . |
| 7 | It is similar to other schemes in allowing customers to reduce their monthly repayments in comparison to outright purchase or choosing a higher specification car than they could normally afford . |
| 8 | It means around 24 million current account holders would have to pay a fee every time they drew a cheque or used a hole-in-the-wall cash machine . |
| 9 | Students dreaded being assigned to these small towns where there were few opportunities to develop their talents or lead an interesting life . |
| 10 | ( e ) Clauses limiting liability or damages A further type of clause commonly used is one which imposes a limit or restriction on the amount of damages payable in the event of breach . |
| 11 | His work has often incorporated a story-board-like element , smaller ‘ pictures ’ marching in squared-off boxes around the borders of his canvases or forming a predella-like frieze along the bottom . |
| 12 | To own a boarding house required capital in the first instance and to maintain the boarding house as a business venture in the early years the husband had to work as a taxi driver or have a part-time job during the winter . |
| 13 | Apart from the fact that I 've never known her dig up a weed or pick a single daffodil , she simply is n't cut out for that kind of work . ’ |
| 14 | 4. support or emphasise a particular point you have made . |
| 15 | Many d-i-y jobs around the home require you to stand on something so you can reach higher , for instance when changing a light bulb or painting a low ceiling . |
| 16 | Propagation velocity had to be neither more than 8.3 cm/s nor less than 1 cm/s ; ( 8 ) non-propagated contractions ( No/24 h ) , defined as contraction waves that are not associated with a proximal contraction wave or have an apparent propagation velocity >8.3 cm/s . |
| 17 | The reason for the above study was the possibility of including a reliability check in the program , to compare each reading with a predicted value and indeed even make a correction or output a diagnostic message that a given reading should be regarded with suspicion . |
| 18 | Where there is a slight risk in the event of a swing , a pilot may be said to have made a simple error of judgement or taken an unnecessary risk . |
| 19 | You can either work it to be doubled over to the wrong side or make a matching strip of plain knitting as a facing . |
| 20 | 17032 married white women aged 25–39 years at entry during 1968–74 who were taking oral contraceptives or using an intrauterine device or diaphragm . |
| 21 | Children will also be able to get a Save the Earth money box , in which they will be asked to put money each time someone in their family wastes energy , for example by leaving on a light or boiling a full kettle of water for one cup of tea . |
| 22 | The only catch is whether you decided to make a wise investment or take a speculative chance some months or even years ago . |
| 23 | Has the next generation of unemployed white youth followed in the footsteps of their elder brothers or taken a new route ? |
| 24 | The system should assume that the top-rated candidates are correct unless the user chooses another of the existing candidates or enters an alternative word . |
| 25 | In the United Kingdom there is no such positive statement of this right , although at common law an assembly or procession is not unlawful per se , unless , for example , it causes an obstruction or constitutes a public nuisance . |
| 26 | In addition , some patients having an operation aimed primarily at relieving pancreatic duct obstruction or resecting a diseased pancreas are also found to have an element of biliary tract obstruction requiring surgical drainage . |
| 27 | It is therefore unlikely that a woman could either infect a lavatory seat or bring an infectable part of her anatomy in contact with such a seat . |
| 28 | While still learning , to swim or drive a car or speak a foreign language , he does have to think out what to do next , but it is when he comes to trust his own reflexes that he will have mastered the skill . |
| 29 | But , if you want the cash buy a car or to make a major home improvement we have special tailormade schemes . |
| 30 | It is usually the responsibility of the engineer to approve the alternative offered by the contractor or to suggest a possible solution . |