Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the SSC , like most things , could probably have been designed a bit better and made to cost a bit less , physics dictates its overall scale . |
| 2 | Few people have it , but as there are comparatively few copywriter positions in London , you ca n't just waltz in and expect to make a mark . |
| 3 | He waited while Father Barnes unlocked the front door , then followed him in and offered to make a cup of tea , the British specific against disaster , grief and shock . |
| 4 | ‘ McAllister was heading away from the danger area , and the last thing you do is dive in and risk conceding a spot-kick . |
| 5 | The girl knelt down and began to play a game of marbles with the Doctor . |
| 6 | And this is why takes to get all this down and get get a location better than the Carlton for the , I mean , alright , we are n't gon na be able to do the three or four hundred , but then we |
| 7 | Angrily she watched him crouch down and begin to clear a patch of ground . |
| 8 | On 2 March however , they were called upon to play a more central part in the defence , as Desmond Vincent-Jones relates : ‘ The day started auspiciously when an Heinkel 111 suddenly appeared out of the dawn mist with undercarriage down and started to make an approach to the main runway , presumably mistaking Hal Far for its own base airfield in Sicily . |
| 9 | A bird that thought so and decided to make a meal of it would quickly die . |
| 10 | And here is Mao coming along and saying look a revolution is taking place and you guys do n't know anything about it , and it is being led by the peasantry . |
| 11 | Her teacher would n't worry , since she had alerted her that she was going to be away and promised to bring a note on her return . |
| 12 | The ’ bogus ’ tag has been used indiscriminately and has created a climate of hostility to new arrivals . |
| 13 | If you are aged 18 or over and wish to open a Midland TESSA please complete the attached application form and return it to your local Midland branch . |
| 14 | If one wanted to meet someone in London who is in fact elsewhere and had to spend a morning travelling which one could pleasantly have spent in bed , then the desire to travel can be faulted . |
| 15 | He was then taken outside and made to dig a grave in the rocky , frozen ground , which took about three hours , before sleeping in it for the night . |
| 16 | Ten month old start up ( UX No 433 ) , OpenVision Inc , Pleasanton , California , is spreading its wings already and plans to open a UK office in September to market OpenV*OPSS , its Unix-based security systems management software . |
| 17 | Taj has 36 hotels in India already and plans to open a budget chain of properties across the country by 1992 . |
| 18 | Also on May 2 another Croatian policeman was killed in the mainly Croatian coastal village of Polaca when Serbian police tried to take over the Croatian-manned police station ; and a helicopter carrying among others the Vice-President of the Croatian Federal Assembly , Vladimir Seks , was fired on and forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Kijevo . |
| 19 | ‘ It is the rarest boat we have worked on and has created a lot of interest , ’ said Mr Freebody . |
| 20 | Here a young couple got on and tried to find a couple of seats which were situated together preferably away from everyone else . |
| 21 | He has seen right from the start that the majority of Germans wanted unification and that the pace of events was dictating a much more rapid move towards unification than most people , either inside , and certainly on the outside , had realised , and he put all his authority into the campaign , campaigned extremely effectively and has had a ringing endorsement . |
| 22 | Many elderly housebound people living alone feel the loss of their independence very keenly and fear becoming a burden to others . |
| 23 | FIFA are anxious that the allegations of match-fixing , currently being investigated by a French magistrate , are cleared up quickly and have set a September 23 deadline alongside a threat to suspend the national team . |
| 24 | You can either be very timid and start in a small way , building it up gradually and expecting to make a profit in the first year . |
| 25 | ‘ We are not trying to rip people off and planned to put a sticker on the records saying they were recorded 10 years ago . |
| 26 | a bit more and start making a bit more |
| 27 | Switching the public debt on to the company appealed to the country gentleman 's prejudice against public indebtedness , and , feeling sure of parliamentary support , the government went further and sought to shift a total of £31 million of debt , almost equally split between redeemable and irredeemable stock , wrapping it into a single huge annuity on which the company would receive 4 or 5 per cent . |
| 28 | The police had done a reasonable job of cleaning up and had put a plastic sheet over the hole in the window to keep the rain out . |
| 29 | I was too busy building this company up and trying to found a dynasty ! |
| 30 | We keep saying that to Steve if he ca n't figure out something me and Marie look up and say get a fitter ! |