Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has successfully developed and operated a port at Sheerness in Kent and drew on this experience in deciding to develop a commercial port in the easternmost portion of the old dockyard . |
| 2 | After May 1940 each evacuee child was medically examined and assigned a record card , on which were entered ( in coded form ) details of any ailments . |
| 3 | The whole festival is heavily dependent on sponsorship and for the last five years it has successfully attracted and maintained a number of business sponsors both locally and nationally . |
| 4 | Why did he say he would rather resign than do a deal over PR , unless he knew he would n't have to ? |
| 5 | ‘ If Americans — and particularly the Brits — have a horse or a dog that behaves badly — they admit the fact , and rather celebrate and make a joke of it , right ? |
| 6 | Matthew was wrongly diagnosed as having a bone tumour . |
| 7 | Expectations that holiday makers will now feel secure enough to go and book a week in the sun put a shine on Airtours , up 33 at 274p . |
| 8 | Differences on European defence policy [ see pp. 37931 ; 38022 ; 38155 ; 38216 ; 38295 ; 38313 ] emerged over Franco-German plans for a European force based in Strasbourg [ see p. 38554 ] , although responses were sufficiently guarded as to suggest a reluctance to revive transatlantic splits in NATO . |
| 9 | Well your wife said there w Oh well you 'd better come and have a look , you see . |
| 10 | After all , she was grown-up enough to know that to please a man you needed to listen to him , and in fact it was no hardship at all to listen to Karl ( unlike Georg , who spoke only of the farm ) . |
| 11 | And who but two women like that would be pigheaded enough to try and run a restaurant there ? ’ |
| 12 | Anyone who is stupid enough to try and derail a train should be locked away for a long time . |
| 13 | when he went in to hire or buy a television , they |
| 14 | Well you do n't want to go out in the car so stop and do a bit of painting . |
| 15 | Club-armed Goblins receive a +1 strength bonus and so count as having a strength of 4 . |
| 16 | Mada Joyce suddenly nodded and gave a smile of understanding . |
| 17 | As a result , powerful database software packages have emerged that can make these small single user machines act like large filing cabinets which can instantaneously search or reorganise a file with literally the touch of a button . |
| 18 | So how do you try a new song because you said that you wo n't necessarily try and do a song out on stage . |
| 19 | A user can only enter or retrieve a module , or collection of modules , by reference to a LIFESPAN package which contains them and to which the user has appropriate access privileges . |
| 20 | A user can only enter or retrieve a module , or collection of modules , by reference to a package to which the user has appropriate access rights . |
| 21 | A user can only enter or retrieve a module by reference to a LIFESPAN package which contains it and to which the user has appropriate access privileges . |
| 22 | But , still the same , Fabia felt hot by the time she 'd made it to her room , so went and took a shower and changed her clothes and supposed , since it had to be lunchtime , that she should set about getting a snack of some sort . |
| 23 | Mr. Scrivener points out that , in the days of capital punishment , it was the practice for the Home Secretary personally to decide whether to recommend a reprieve ; and political memoirs record how seriously that responsibility was regarded . |
| 24 | Well I 'll perhaps go and have a bath then . |
| 25 | Well I 'd better go and make a note of it . |
| 26 | I 'd better go and have a word with her . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd better go and have a word , ’ Matthew said . |
| 28 | ‘ We 'd better go and have a word with Mum and Dad . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd better go and have a look at them . |
| 30 | I 'd better go and have a look . |