Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb base] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surrounding himself with local knowledge was a form of entrenchment ; if you dig in and stare at a hill you can often persuade yourself you know what 's going on behind it . |
| 2 | For instance to er to put in this lottery , and put in the new system that we just converted , recently , a couple of days ago err takes tens and tens of millions of millions of dollars , and most companies who come in and work on a percentage of sales , do n't get their capital investment back until several years into the contract . |
| 3 | Come down and snooze in a garden when I am a dragon , an ocean-lurking , sky-flying free dragon ; when the mother wind that keeps the world spinning caresses my scales as I fly across the moon and bring warnings and hopes to the fiery heart of the world ; when I can dance aloft at dawn , so that the rising sun turns my every scale to a pure diamond and the tides and rhythms of the oceans slow down in delight . |
| 4 | And course he 'd frightened himself and er I counted up to about eight , nine and ten I said to him , Look when you go inside that bloody gate now I said go straight into the office sit down and think for a minute where the hell are we all going to in this carry on ? |
| 5 | Still image also allows you to slow the drama down and think about a situation from another 's point of view . |
| 6 | Dig down — use a stick , not your hand — for a foot or so and drop in a piece of paper . |
| 7 | The danger is in having a film of glue dry prematurely and appear as a line . |
| 8 | I watch the horrible dream drive away and disappear in a dribble of tail-lights . |
| 9 | When the fish are well on feed I will put one rod away and change to a butt-indicator which allows me to fish more quickly and efficiently . |
| 10 | Then he started to pull himself together , returned to Hollywood and stayed sober — except for Sundays , when he would lock himself away and drink like a fish . |
| 11 | The first one was half of us were blindfolded and we were set out in a line and the rest had to move about 5–10 metres away and stand in a line . |
| 12 | Send it on soon and work to a deadline |
| 13 | You want to leave me on my own tonight and go to a disco and let some spotty lout put his arms about you ? ’ |
| 14 | They have taken over and breed in a pride which is not the one in which they were born . |
| 15 | I run outside and hide behind a hedge then wake up laughing , 'cos I 'm out there in my underwear on the street . |
| 16 | They 've given her something and she , she had to put this stuff on her hair , had to take a trip to the hairdresser and he said to the hairdresser comb my hair first and then put this stuff on and wait for a fortnight and it did come a little lighter , but it was n't much |
| 17 | ‘ Well , I 'd better get that washing on and think about a dinner , ’ Victoria said ; ‘ but you go along and see what 's happening and we 'll talk about that when you come back … . ’ |
| 18 | Turn right and walk to a junction of roads and tracks . |
| 19 | He warned that the project would change the character of the West End for ever and lead to a ribbon of development between Darlington and Croft . |
| 20 | Just drop him off and go to a canteen |
| 21 | He values the situations and people that have enabled him to be more himself , to find a dynamic fulfilment in the ability to express his deeper feelings , explore life further and evolve as a person . |
| 22 | He values the situations and people that have enabled him to be more himself , to find a dynamic fulfilment in the ability to express his deeper feelings , explore life further and evolve as a person . |
| 23 | At a future review conference — such conferences will occur every few years in the Community — it might be desirable to go even further and press for a clause in the Community body of law that makes it crystal clear that all powers that are not specifically allocated to the Community should remain as of right with the member states , as is the case in the American constitution . |
| 24 | Now go home and rest for a while , Charlie . |
| 25 | He said she was to go to Ludgate Circus , stand on the south corner of Fleet Street at 6.30 p.m. and wait for a cab to pull in and pick her up . |
| 26 | Roll the fillets up and secure with a cocktail stick . |
| 27 | This is the impact that a speaker has when they stand up and speak to a group of people . |
| 28 | When Parliament returned , the Opposition would take the matter up and proceed to a vote of censure . |
| 29 | I knew the type : five years of self-employed brickying , then sell up and buy into a pub near Clacton or Southend and spend the summer serving light-and-bitter to self-employed brickies on a day out with the kids from Peckham or Deptford . |
| 30 | The team have to pick themselves up and perform on a Saturday . |