Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's too hot , use gloves or push it over with a spade and lift the other end up so now the holes that were in the bottom are now on top and there is smoke coming out of them . |
| 2 | A white face was the only qualification required for work , modelling or hamming it up in a TV commercial . |
| 3 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 4 | Someone who 's forever pushing her hair out of her eyes , or stuffing it up in a clip on top of her head simply looks harassed . |
| 5 | It can involve redrawing the work to show a different scale of projection , or breaking it down into a general drawing or a series of drawings . |
| 6 | It is also at least arguable that these sections of the UCTA prevent the seller from imposing an obligation on the buyer to permit the seller to exercise the options of alteration of the goods or taking them back for a refund , because such actions by the seller would be in breach of his warranty of quiet possession . |
| 7 | Practise makes perfect , so use them when you 're wanking or try them out on a vibrator , dildo or anything that 's about the right shape . |
| 8 | Initially , he attempted to browbeat the pope into judging the case in his favour or handing it back to an English ecclesiastical court . |
| 9 | Fit your car with a catalytic converter , if possible , or trade it in for a new model — cars made after 1993 must have them . |
| 10 | That 's where fellows called to pick them up , or to take them over to a pub for a pint . |
| 11 | Ensure good contact by pegging in place with wire hoops or weighting it down with a few pebbles . |
| 12 | But although she moans , it was Michelle Pfeiffer 's looks that led her out of a dead-end job as a check-out girl at Vons supermarket in El Toro , California . |
| 13 | Thus Leo I thought it better that his congregation should keep their fasting for the proper liturgical seasons publicly set aside for it , rather than carry it out as a private ascetic exercise . |
| 14 | But Scotland also suffered from internal religious differences , and from the effects of the Navigation Acts after 1660 that cut her off from a good deal of overseas trade . |
| 15 | But what he had left her was the key to untangling the harmony of dancing lights and that let her in to a place which like a child she had always stared at unknowing before . |
| 16 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 17 | This means that in most cases it is more likely to be a matter of relaxing the forward pressure to allow the aircraft to level out rather than pulling it out with a positive backward pressure on the stick . |
| 18 | And that get us up to a certain distance , but even then that method must fail when you get beyond a certain distance . |
| 19 | The overlap area is difficult , and it is therefore better to insist on the rigorous separation of the two methodological approaches than to mix them up in a compromise , or to treat one as logically more worthy of respect than the other . |
| 20 | Suddenly he was crying too , deep racking sobs that took him back to a night long ago , soon after his father was killed . |
| 21 | But for me it was Couples 's play of the long 15th that marked him down as a most worthy champion . |
| 22 | With ‘ If I Was Your Girlfriend ’ he created another identity for himself ( ‘ Camille ’ ) by subjecting his vocal to studio wizardry that tweaked it up to an androgynous 55 rpm . |
| 23 | I was sweating , you could imagine thinking God we 're going to have to take the wheels off and drag it through with a tractor or something like that on skids , cos we needed the van for Monday and there was n't going to be a lot of t But then suddenly yes a again I suddenly th |
| 24 | She fetched my rope and laid it out on a clear patch of ground . |
| 25 | Guido drained his whisky glass and laid it down on a nearby table . |
| 26 | He folded his newspaper and laid it down on a seat beside him . |
| 27 | Nigel rallied round and asked her out for a drink . |
| 28 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 29 | This puts a healthy pressure on the insurer to provide good quality policies and back them up with a fast and fair administrative and claims service . |
| 30 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |