Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone tells you not to think of a white bear , what happens ? |
| 2 | The doctor would feel her breasts , find nothing , smile and send her off to deal with a new , an incurable bitterness . |
| 3 | He was taken to hospital where doctors gave him charcoal to absorb the drug and sent him home to rest in a darkened room . |
| 4 | If Maisie had taught Beth anything at all , she had taught her how to look after a growing family . |
| 5 | Clean , it was an absolute dream ; the EQ offered more than enough scope to produce anything from a cutting Telecaster to a rich acoustic tone , and with the help of a short delay and pitchshift I put a sound onto tape which I 'd defy anyone not to recognise as an acoustic guitar — and I 'd actually used the Patrick Eggle New York model reviewed elsewhere in this issue . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , the JMP-1 has no input on the back and so in some ways it falls at the final fence , because I ca n't really see how you can set it up to work in a neat and user-friendly rack ; you 'd have to wire the thing up every time you gigged it . |
| 7 | In essence , Labour is proposing the Swedish model in which the state controls the economy — rather than owning it — and taxes it ferociously to pay for a ballooning public sector . |
| 8 | There was the Masters ' Room on the ground floor — they took it out to put in a new directors ' lift — and whenever one of our ships docked in London her master would come for a drink and a chat with Mr.Andrew — like a sort of club , it was . |
| 9 | It is programmed with a flight plan telling it how to get from a nearby ‘ way-point ’ to its target , and with a set of pictures of how the terrain it will pass over should look to its radar altimeter . |
| 10 | Could you tell me where to apply for a full birth certificate with all my parents ' details on it ? |