Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul stared at the reeds in the narrow river ; the Clyde wound here like a country stream , and up the grass incline women hung out washing or spread it to dry on a fine day . |
| 2 | Did any News reader obtain one and would they sell me a copy or allow me to pay for a loan of a negative ? |
| 3 | Do you sleep in shop doorways or do you go to a hostel so sometimes ? |
| 4 | And is that er , do you have one person that you allocate specific tasks or do you go on a daily basis . |
| 5 | Women may find her image within themselves , or see her reflected in a mythical , historical or living person who carries such a quality in her being . |
| 6 | Each user , having inspected an item of mail , can elect to delete the message , retain it for later examination , or have it formatted to a file for printing . |
| 7 | ii.4.30 , oikeia kai piste ; Thebes and Corinth wanted Athens to be utterly destroyed sooner than see her turned into a Spartan puppet . |
| 8 | Our main purpose in life is to make people aware of the problem , to make them think of their own vulnerability and responsibility and make them act in a safe and sensible way . |
| 9 | However , I feel it is better to dominate all dogs equally and make them come to a submissive position in front of the owner , preferably the down position . |
| 10 | One longs to give a copy each to ten assorted bus company managers ( leavened with the occasional politician and academic ) and make them wait on a cold dark wet night in a vandalised bus shelter for an unpredictable R registered banger . |
| 11 | Soho , meanwhile , enthuse and make me feel like a miserable old fart . |
| 12 | On the northern coalfield the rejection of badly filled corves on the grounds that they had been deliberately underfilled — " they will sometimes be so roguish as to set these big coals hollow at the Corfe bottom , and cover them with some small coals at the top of the Corves , and make it look like a full Corfe " — was a long-running grievance which led to a strike at one mine in 1751 . |
| 13 | It has been argued that these divisions within the working class are unreconcilable and prevent it acting as a strong , united , radical force . |
| 14 | He lifted his shoulders and let them fall in a dismissive shrug . |
| 15 | They had to help me into the house and let me rest in a chair . |
| 16 | And let me say in a personal capacity that if this link between my group in Europe and the trade union movement at home is important , I think the lin link between the trade union movement and the Party at home is of crucial importance . |
| 17 | To the buttery juices in the pan add the brandy and let it sizzle for a few seconds . |
| 18 | Remove the vanilla pod , skim the jam , and let it cool for a few minutes before turning it into small jars . |
| 19 | For an ice cream cake , buy a large pack of vanilla flavour and let it warm for a little while until it can be moulded into a circle , and then refreeze it . |
| 20 | Producing this amount of new growth also means adequate moisture below : when weather is dry , remember the thirsty ramblers ; lay the hose out and let it dribble for a few hours . |
| 21 | I decided to put pen to paper and let you know of a few problems some of us have in trying to become machine knitters . |
| 22 | ‘ This historic loco is just the attraction and boost we need in a recession , and I 'm confident it 'll be just as popular with the public in Devon as it proved to be on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway in Cornwall . ’ |
| 23 | Her eyes were rolling with terror as she began to struggle to free herself from the tenacious , sucking mud — struggles that only served to hasten the process and cause her to sink at an even greater rate . |
| 24 | This packet of light would disturb the particle and cause it to move at a speed in some direction . |
| 25 | Breed are the kind of band who will begin to write a tormented love song and watch it develop into a bloody massacre . |
| 26 | Then they frisk you and give you a dressing-gown and tell you to go into a cubicle and strip off and wait . |
| 27 | I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it . |
| 28 | And Joe 's mum give me mostly pound coins and get it changed for a ten pound note . |
| 29 | Take the baskets that hold them out of the pool and allow them to drain for an hour . |
| 30 | The great depth of the body , lacking the rotundity found in other species , would make the bream a very ungainly fish without these exceptionally long fins on the back and belly to balance , stabilise and allow it to swim on an even keel . |