Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] a [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stevenson readily admits that his business talents did not blossom early — ‘ I was a most inept apprentice , ’ he says — but he successfully qualified as a CA and joined a subsidiary of the British Steel Corporation . |
| 2 | Ask any élite marathoner what he/she most wants after a race and the answer is very likely to be a massage . |
| 3 | It is no surprise they all have bright red noses , for their two great loves are tobacco and whisky ; they rarely appear without a pipe and are known to raid cellars , particularly favouring homemade ale . |
| 4 | He went on to work as a designer and translator for an Austrian publisher , where the manager , Otto Preminger ( later a celebrated film director ) introduced him to Max Reinhardt . |
| 5 | And she 'd rather jump on a pony and go ! |
| 6 | It must be stressed that the above figures are only intended as a GUIDE and every claim must be considered on its merits . |
| 7 | Those moths that settle there will probably only stay for a day and then continue higher still . |
| 8 | Breathless , she straightened up and said fiercely , ‘ You can only stay for a minute and then you must promise to go . ’ |
| 9 | He was a gentle man by nature , but he would suddenly fall into a depression and lose all confidence in himself . |
| 10 | Old , harmless Enoch suddenly turned into a Shylock and demanded that Bobby remove his pound of flesh . |
| 11 | I mean I suppose there is in all social work in a sense , that if you go in to look at a family and , and you 're trying to assess you know whether the children should be taken into care , well you 're exercising a a sort of statutory erm er sort of responsibility , and as far as the clients are concerned , er if you , like that can sort of get in the way of er er a more human sort of relationship if you see what I mean , because |
| 12 | The inroads made into the male strongholds are small , but the progress is remarkable when one sets sixty years now against preceding millennia in which western world women only existed in a family and under male domination . |
| 13 | When Robert Layton , from Leominster in Herefordshire , takes off for Portugal on Saturday , he 'll be literally flying on a wing and a prayer , a wing of nylon and a prayer for good weather . |
| 14 | She left his office quietly , too raw to make a scene and attract attention , wanting only to crawl into a corner and hide . |
| 15 | However , up to the time of his partnership agreement with Scott , he had only completed approximately ten buildings , and was perhaps better known as a writer and administrator . |
| 16 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 17 | he only went about a week and then he closed . |
| 18 | He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint . |
| 19 | Paul , although a Roman citizen was a Jew of Blameless life , highly trained as a Pharisee and fluent in Aramaic and Greek . |
| 20 | Then Clare took her by the elbow and led her along the path which suddenly went through a gate and stopped . |
| 21 | Obviously hit by a vehicle and just left to die . ’ |
| 22 | It is not enough to think of a murder and who committed it and why what is not immediately obvious , and then to take some setting that seems interesting and simply introduce chunks of description from time to time . |
| 23 | The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up . |
| 24 | Carol had written it specially for Nicholson ; he could read some of the special nuances that would mean something to him and no one else , nuances that could only come from a friendship and working relationship spanning fifteen years . |
| 25 | A word spelt like another but with a different meaning , eg bow in a bow and arrow and tie one 's hair with a bow . |
| 26 | ‘ He forgot about his bleeding arm long enough to get on a horse and run , ’ fitzAlan said grimly , retrieving his cloak and swiftly re-tying the pack . |
| 27 | He seemed to be troubled but his face suddenly relaxed into a smile and she smiled back . |
| 28 | ‘ The Vetch ’ is a really good restaurant ; so good , I ca n't afford to eat there , but I have played there on occasions and most of the staff know me well enough to stop for a drink and a chat . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've sometimes thought she was perhaps my mother , ’ she suddenly said in a rush and then paused , turning the statement into a question . |
| 30 | There was a row of bright enamel saucepans , an Italian coffee pot and two or three painted ceramic jars on the shelves ; Melissa bent down to peek into a cupboard and saw an array of packets and tinned foods and several types of pasta in glass jars . |