Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it would serve them right for treating her like a baby . |
| 2 | Do n't worry too much about providing her with a healthy diet for the time being — the strangest combinations of food can provide an adequate intake of nutrients and children can be perfectly healthy on remarkably little . |
| 3 | What amazes me is how often they 'll say to me ‘ Thank you very much for treating me like a human being ’ because however drunk they are in the churchyard I always believe that you 're much more likely to get somewhere with somebody if you are polite and kind to them and treat them like a real human being , and you can get into all sorts of fascinating conversations with these people even when they are fairly drunk , because actually they are real human beings , they are n't awful people . |
| 4 | He acknowledges her humiliation by jumping out of his side of the car , coming round to hers , opening the door for her and waiting ostentatiously for her awkwardly to tuck her legs inside before closing it with a little bow . |
| 5 | The East Germans were not set on abolishing the distinction between town and country , just perhaps on smothering it in a pall of acidic smoke and rain . |
| 6 | John Urry and I then broadened it and transformed it to make it the cornerstone of our chapter on postmodernism in The End of Organized Capitalism , especially by locating it within a framework of a book which is essentially a comparative political economy of advanced capitalist societies . |
| 7 | How could he explain that only by emptying himself into a woman was there any relief ? |
| 8 | It will achieve this not through seeing itself as a piece of concrete , proprietary estate , as an end in itself ; rather it is a moving organisation for progress , existing for its future not its present , and achieving its future , and so fulfilling its raison d'etre , in aspiration for , and achievement of , improvement . |
| 9 | Do not hesitate to throw a card away after rewriting it in a better form . |
| 10 | We as magistrates do try and be consistent in our sentencing er throughout the country , I think it 's beholden on the police to be consistent in their approach to offenders , as well , and it seems quite wrong that someone in Folkestone gets away with doing something with a guy in Wigan er goes before the court . |
| 11 | Anyway a plant , we think , for bigger gardens but if you can get away with growing it in a small space where cutting it back by all means do because it is quite a pretty thing . |
| 12 | Either issue all the discs separately before offering them in a boxed set , or issue the boxed set first and then issue the discs separately : that is the only fair and honest way of marketing complete sets . |
| 13 | From where he was lying , he could neither go forwards nor backwards without exposing himself as a target . |
| 14 | Indeed , I have blundered straight away by placing them in a context of the 1960s and 1970s , as though in 1970 they stopped ! |
| 15 | Now that is a humiliating experience , so you get through by turning it into a joke . |
| 16 | CHESTER 'S former town crier was continuing his recovery in hospital yesterday after turning himself into a human fireball last week . |
| 17 | Police say the attacker drove off without taking anything in a white or grey car . |
| 18 | DAVID Mellor headed for the political wilderness yesterday by comparing himself to a great British hero . |
| 19 | At the same time , inspect and clean the gutters and rainwater gullies , emptying them of leaves and silt — finish off by flushing them with a bucket of warm water . |
| 20 | And he employs a zig-zag training sprint which involves a series of passes before the player finishes off by flinging himself at a rugby tackle bag ! |
| 21 | But you 're , you 're getting a cup of tea to be we went up through took her for a walk |
| 22 | The Land Rover will go easily through 9 or 10 inches of snow , but unless deeper snow is well packed , then the vehicle will not drive up on top of it and it builds up underneath bringing you to a halt . |
| 23 | Firing off a writ or an unfair dismissal application may make you feel better for a little while , but you should think carefully before launching yourself into a full-scale battle . |
| 24 | Except in the case of the Yakuts and the Turks and Mongols of the southern steppes , their economy was largely based upon the use of reindeer — in the first place by hunting wild herds during their seasonal migrations , and later by domesticating them to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 25 | Answer : You can make all the programs that you always want start automatically by placing them in a special group in the Program Manager called Startup . |
| 26 | He sounded depressed by the thought , but then cheered himself up by asking me for a beer . |
| 27 | If the compounds are toxic , though , the off-gases may have to be collected and treated , probably by passing them through a granular activated carbon absorber . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , it looks very much as if he was able to help young Ben out a bit : probably by employing him as a commercial traveller in his own drapery business . |
| 29 | Gouldner was just three-quarters right in describing it as a culture of critical discourse ; for it is essentially a culture of self-critical discourse . |
| 30 | I do suggest that you never lead the mare in or out without having her on a lungeing cavesson and rope or a bridle with reins … a headcollar and rope is INSUFFICIENT . |