Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are n't any stones large enough to spell out a message with . |
| 2 | In fact , on several occasions after he left , he would come down to sort out a problem for us . |
| 3 | To this it might be retorted that no-one linguistically advanced enough to look up a word in a dictionary could possibly require a definition of the word home . |
| 4 | Earlier still , rumour had it that England selectors needed only to whistle down a mine-shaft for a couple of fast bowlers to arrive in the next cage . |
| 5 | An agreement is needed , not merely to give up an amount of liberty , but to put it into the hands of some sovereign power . |
| 6 | You have been fortunate enough to build up a reserve of savings over the years , or you may find yourself in receipt of an inheritance . |
| 7 | Press gently to squeeze out a star of icing , stop the pressure , and pull away the nozzle tip so that the icing star forms to a point and breaks off . |
| 8 | ‘ There was a time when photographs were used merely to break up a page of type , but it 's now developed into a fully-fledged art form of its own , ’ he observes . |
| 9 | It was at this time that we read Morgan Forster 's article in the Listener about George Crabbe and we were touched and interested enough to seek out a copy of Crabbe 's poems and I well remember my surprise in discovering a mid-19th-century edition in San Diego , I think . |
| 10 | A lone mercenary thinks he 's tough enough to take on a bunch of macho gun-toting enemy soldiers ( who are probably so 'ard they eat shredded wheat , box and all , for brekky ) . |
| 11 | It is important not to miss out a part of the invitation . |
| 12 | Just to pick up a point on er Miss 's latest request for information . |
| 13 | He went over to pick up a coffee for himself , then came back over and sat down . |
| 14 | ‘ Hey — come on , ’ he said softly , and smiled at her as he reached over to tear off a sheet of kitchen-towel . |
| 15 | It was also planned that wherever possible these local workers should be employed to work with a specific elderly person , and thus to build up a relationship between the two . |
| 16 | The Communist youth paper , Junge Welt , printed a complaint by show-business personalities that colleagues had been arrested , harassed or forbidden to appear for defying orders not to read out an appeal for reforms during their performances . |
| 17 | Be careful not to break up a sentence with a full stop : Although she was a mentally ill person who lived in her own mind and was allocated a limited number of mental processes . |
| 18 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 19 | ’ And he had gone off to brew up a kettle of some herbal concoction , which he had said would do wonders for the men 's aching joints after the long march . |
| 20 | I was helping Con in the saloon , and then he went off to sort out a spot of bother in the public , and I 've hardly seen him since . |
| 21 | Mr Arnold questioned why he had not tried harder to set up a system for receiving such information more swiftly . |
| 22 | So you had studiously to act out a charade of affection and natural ease until , like politicians , you had settled the issue in private , one way or the other . |
| 23 | Marching on FOOTBALL : Juventus clinched a thrilling 2–1 victory over Atalanta yesterday to claw back a point from Italian first division leaders AC Milan who could only manage a goalless draw at lowly Fiorentina . |
| 24 | The intention there Chair , is to , is to do further work er , to consolidate on the work that 's been achieved during the , during the year , but also to set out a programme for the er , following period of time , er , from er , April nineteen ninety four until March nineteen ninety five , so that erm , members of the Committee are able to comment on the , on the intentions er , on the draft strategies that are being put forward as a result of the review that takes place er , following the first year 's activity . |
| 25 | In her mind 's eye , she flayed the red man of his sparse pelt and hung it up to dry over a pole in her garden and then used it — as roofing for her animals ' hutch perhaps , or a tunic for herself . |
| 26 | Your best chance for successful badger-watching is carefully to stake out a sett before dusk . |
| 27 | Fletcher , who , as captain , guided Essex to their first eight trophies between 1979 and 1985 , is widely expected to replace Micky Stewart at the end of this season when he retires , probably to take up a role with the TCCB . |
| 28 | Weissman carried on courageously with a complex but fascinating lecture on RNA splicing , ignoring the loud hubbub and intermittent squawks from his own microphone , and pausing often to wait out an eruption of roars and whistles from next door . |
| 29 | Lachlan , racing out to set up an ambush for his nephew , insisted against his shipmaster 's warning on taking a corner just too neat , and stranded his birlinn just off the Rubha Aird Druimnich . |
| 30 | An STC spokesman explained that the £1.7m sale was made by Mr Walsh to escape the rising cost of the loan he took out to pick up an option on 1 million STC shares in February . |