Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb base] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the children soon settle down and gather round for a closer look at Caesar a 12ft long Burmese python . |
| 2 | We land just after one o'clock and get straight into a Jag jam-sandwich ( so a ford at both ends — ha ! ) . |
| 3 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 4 | Where is the true blood-bought fellowship of brothers and sisters who live together and share together as a family to whom the despairing may turn ? |
| 5 | As the sun heats the ground , pockets of warm air form which periodically break away and rise upwards in a column . |
| 6 | Sprinkle the chives over the omelet , allow to just set , then fold over and slide out onto a plate . |
| 7 | After much remonstrating during which I was told very kindly and politely that there was no problem , till I felt like tearing my hair out , I was sent to sit in a corner ( just a woman you see ) and Mr Fleming was ushered off to meet an official , rush off somewhere and come back with a piece of paper which was duly stamped , passport returned , and off we went to meet our contact , who explained in a jocular fashion that I was the problem . |
| 8 | Maybe Bunny could learn to moonlight on a mainframe somewhere and tap in to a whole new reference work of nubile young ladies . |
| 9 | I always hang up promptly and go out for a nice cup of coffee to cheer myself up . |
| 10 | It 's a chance for them to forget the washing up and their household chores , put their feet up and settle down for a comfortable snooze in front of their favourite television programme ( which really does n't sound much different from normal , does it ? ) |
| 11 | Sometimes he 'd get more hyped up and ride along on a snaking king-boogie , or work out a streak of magical stop-time sleaze like ‘ Boom Boom ’ ( first recorded in ‘ 61 ) . |
| 12 | Playing a Stableford of the three best individual scores , they finish about 3½ hours later and sit down to a breakfast provided by the ladies . |
| 13 | You can set it to cook while you 're out and come home to a perfectly cooked meal . |
| 14 | Let your child suck water up the straw , blow it out and play around for a while . |
| 15 | Blend the pieces together roughly and roll out on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour to give a marbled brown effect . |
| 16 | There 's an underground thing — you know , steps going down to a station , so I go down there and wander around for a bit . |
| 17 | So you are forced to swing east again and stumble down through a dense birch forest until you reach the wire bridge , and retrace your steps back along the tourist path . |