Example sentences of "[verb] an [adj] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dogs and owners are apparently revelling in this ultimate test of agility.And one competitor found an easy way to build up her pet 's stamina . |
| 2 | OLD salt Ebenezer Jones has an extra £10,000 to sprinkle around — thanks to Mirror Bingo . |
| 3 | But there is no doubt that the court has an inherent jurisdiction to strike out any proceeding which is an abuse of its process ; and it is such an abuse to commence and maintain a proceeding which has no prospect whatever of success . |
| 4 | Written as a journalistic offering without benefit of references or even a bibliography , it still manages to inform the reader on many of the internal features of Saddam Hussein 's rise to power , though it has an infuriating tendency to dart back and forth over the past 30 years , too much like a 1960s film trying to be clever . |
| 5 | It reported in 1985 in favour of establishing an Inter-Governmental Conference to carry out institutional reforms and to widen the EC 's objectives . |
| 6 | He must have stood at least two inches over six feet , and his obvious physical strength caused an unfamiliar quivering to start up deep inside her . |
| 7 | The only visiting driver to do well was Cumbria 's Andy Fairless who drove an excellent race to fend off the challenge from Berkshire 's Peter Palmer . |
| 8 | The friends , all from the Meadowfield and Brandon area of County Durham , had stayed overnight on their way home and had made an early start to get back in time to play in a Sunday League fixture for their local pub team . |
| 9 | The cellar , being a sort of tunnel between yard and house , would have made an excellent place to play in on wet days . |
| 10 | IAN ‘ ON THE OCHE ’ OSBORNE grows an enormous gut to find out … |
| 11 | Environmentalists and local politicians this wee k welcomed an ambitious initiative to clean up Darlington . |
| 12 | The brushwood is n't wasted … it 's stacked to form an impenetrable fence to keep out deer which would otherwise nibble down all the new growth . |
| 13 | Thereafter the truly experienced Phillips-watcher will know that he is to be found in the corner of the studio conducting a vehement argument with himself on the subject of whatever he just did n't tell you , and will shortly be sending an assistant back to pick up his hat . |
| 14 | He takes it slowly , lets everyone have his say , and if they do n't agree he does n't mind calling an extra meeting to come back to it . |
| 15 | It will nearly always be easier subsequently to reach agreement to extend the partnership than to persuade an elderly partner to stand down voluntarily before the contractual date : hence the relative unpopularity of agreements which simply permit a partner at his option to retire upon reaching a certain age . |
| 16 | Well , a world-famous nature reserve is installing an anti-pollution system to clean up the water flowing through it from the River Severn . |
| 17 | Ben , 13 , from Sheffield , and his father Alan made an early start to bait up a north Nottinghamshire lake with fish flavoured boilies and Ben landed the common on a size 8 hook hair rig . |
| 18 | Twenty-seven-year-old Philip set up his now flourishing landscape and garden maintenance business when he was just 19 using an old Mini to get around in . |
| 19 | In this chapter we consider how you develop an appropriate voice to write in , since this is how a sense of yourself , as the writer , is conveyed . |
| 20 | He wagged an admonitory finger to fend off any protest from Corbett . |
| 21 | On conventional free range poultry units , the birds are often given an open field to wander over . |
| 22 | By Brian Oliver Ipswich 2 Wolves 1 IPSWICH , clearly suffering from the end-of-season jitters afflicting so many of their promotion rivals , needed an 89th-minute penalty to see off an enterprising Wolves side and extend their Second Division lead to seven points . |
| 23 | They do have an inbuilt desire to lay down dominance over one another . |
| 24 | Clearly Select Committees will have an important role to play in further developing the presentation of these reports to ensure that they provide greater accountability . |
| 25 | Harnessing the natural radiant energy of the sun seems an obvious way to cut down on ever-increasing fuel bills . |
| 26 | Er in fact it would take an entire evening to go out to Keighley . |
| 27 | We employed an outside agency to carry out 200 face-to-face interviews with a cross section of external businesses to gain an indication of attitudes towards the AEA . |
| 28 | * The Ukrainian government has decided to hold an international contest to work out a method of converting the fourth reactor at Chernobyl into an environmentally safe system . |
| 29 | Seeing his broad back and shoulders , the proud carriage of his dark head , she felt an overwhelming longing to give in to her clamouring body . |
| 30 | ASK an American banker to point out the bright spots in his beleaguered industry , and he will probably point to credit cards . |