Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smiling to herself , she walked into the kitchen , switched on the kettle to make a drink , picked up the phone and dialled . |
| 2 | You had to drive leftish to position yourself far enough down the fairway to get a pitch into the green . |
| 3 | The standard practice is to unseal the bag , roll down the polythene to form a collar and then leave the bagged fish floating on your pond for 20–30 minutes to equalise water temperatures . |
| 4 | The most substantial of them farmed sufficient land to earn themselves the description of yeoman ; the poorest had merely an acre or two and perhaps the right to keep a cow and some sheep on the common . |
| 5 | A third possible concern is that both may conflict with some human end , perhaps the need to control a population of deer or to eat meat , in which we take an interest . |
| 6 | Gradually stir in the milk to make a batter . |
| 7 | Talks on the issue with the Slovak government proved inconclusive , however , with the latter estimating that " even with the best will " Austria had only the capacity to deliver a maximum of 400 MW , or about half of the unit 's output . |
| 8 | The cook puts together the ingredients to make a salad . |
| 9 | People in her study , she argues , supported their kin out of a mixture of duty and genuine affection , plus feelings of pride , especially a desire to keep a member of one 's own family out of the workhouse ( Roberts , 1984 , pp. 170–2 ) . |
| 10 | Work to them is merely a way to earn a living . |
| 11 | Here the tall and lanky Simon Lay , kitted out in high heels and hip hugging skirt , as Chrissie , the shy lass out for her first contest , evokes some sympathy but the character is merely a vehicle to introduce a stream of smutty dialogue into the proceedings . |
| 12 | Such a formula would not , it seems , commend itself to Professor Williams , who further argues that the threat must not be merely a threat to withhold a benefit from the woman . |
| 13 | At last Doctor Bery arrives at the ward.After discussing a patient 's blood test results , he checks the pedometer … it registers just over a mile.Then the bleep goes … and there 's another trek to another ward.Doctor Beri covers a quarter of a mile … just to fill in a form to authorize a patient 's attendance allowance.Cheltenham General Hospital is run by the East Gloucester NHS trust.It 's worried by the excessive distances doctors cover : |
| 14 | In my railway days , if you wanted a Privilege Ticket , you filled in a form to obtain a form , filled in by a clerk , which you presented to a booking clerk . |
| 15 | Aeons ago , the waters must have taken a different path and the men who discovered the cave had chipped away the stalagmites to make a passage into the gallery beyond , the gallery where Melissa and Fernand now stood . |
| 16 | The bag struck the paving , bounced , and now the boy caught it and peeled away the bag to reveal a football which he struck in a high , curling shot which ricocheted off the wall slightly to the left of a priest who had emerged from the large church which dosed off one end of the piazza . |
| 17 | The climb was very tough , taking eight hours in all , and in places the guides had to cut away the plants to clear a route . |
| 18 | It 's marvellous that the Brighton Corporation came in , but nevertheless the building to perform a function which is going to be useful for the community as a whole has got to be properly funded . |
| 19 | Right now the bait was not money or easy winners , just the chance to earn a living by riding horses in races without fearing for her life . |
| 20 | ‘ Just the type to bring a rabbit out of a hat , ’ Sophie had said . |
| 21 | It might become just the thing to have a plant standing in a four and a half inch pot which contains a cool five grand in shredded tenners . |
| 22 | It was largely the desire to create a diversion away from Flanders for Marlborough and his triumphant armies that led to new plans for a Jacobite invasion of the British Isles . |
| 23 | I feel what companies are looking for is an available skilled workforce , not the opportunity to get a lot of unemployed people at a very low wage so , I 'm basically supporting what you 've said . |
| 24 | ‘ Ah , Schatzie , now that is not the way to treat a penis , a beautiful one . |
| 25 | That is not the way to run a police force , and that is why police morale is low . |
| 26 | Poor Martha 's experience of suitors was limited to Sam Baldwin who , although hardworking and dependable , was not the type to turn a girl 's head . |
| 27 | He was not the type to make a fuss as some people would have done , but he was very fed up about it . |
| 28 | This was not the moment to make a stand for independence . |
| 29 | Three minutes before kick-off is not the time to stage a dressing room revolt . |
| 30 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |