Example sentences of "a [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you knit , the needles on one of the beds has a stitch , then a tucking stitch , then on the next row , both stitch and tuck loop should be knitted — but if the stitch size is too high , they will not knit off cleanly — hence , large patches of mis-patterning . |
| 2 | The idea is to make it a bring facility at the moment , which is why we like the station centre and the yard behind it , because people tend to drive out that way as they go to Exeter and back . |
| 3 | We witness the ambush of a patrol , and accompany a search-and-destroy operation against a VC battalion . |
| 4 | Like a propped skull , |
| 5 | Its flat-coiled shell was not completely filled with flesh as is that of a snail , but had a hinder end walled off to form a gas chamber . |
| 6 | The boundary can be used as a reflecting surface so that the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection . |
| 7 | Also in the crypt is the Duomo treasury , a pay-to-enter collection that is closed for a long period at lunch . |
| 8 | Lineker showed him how it is done , playing deep and feeding Samways and Allen with slick passes that brought two excellent saves from Nixon , a disallowed goal by Samways , and a reaction from the Tranmere defence which was somewhat reminiscent of a metal crusher in a scrapyard . |
| 9 | In the tax computation this amount is added back as a disallowed expense and hence the company obtains no tax relief . |
| 10 | The cap fixed him securely to the board , with his airborne body trembling behind him like the handle of a plunged dagger . |
| 11 | The disabled may sometimes need help themselves in overcoming feelings of bitterness , despair or resentment towards the rest of society , and help in adjusting to and accepting the consequences of disablement without succumbing to a withdrawn resignation or unnecessary isolation . |
| 12 | I had the sense of a withdrawn person , a loner . |
| 13 | His eyes flickered momentarily , then he retreated behind a withdrawn expression which gave absolutely nothing away . |
| 14 | Against the odds John succeeded in drawing her out of a withdrawn reaction . |
| 15 | But Quinn , playing a withdrawn role behind the two main forwards responded with one of his best performances for Northern Ireland ; easily the man of the match . |
| 16 | ‘ I let him read some of The Journal of a Fallen Angel , as a special treat . |
| 17 | ‘ The Journal of a Fallen Angel ? ’ |
| 18 | Dougal tried to immerse himself in The Journal of a Fallen Angel . |
| 19 | You 'd stick out like a suppurating thumb . |
| 20 | But , to a Prime Minister already in deep trouble , yesterday 's swingeing criticism , while probably not immediately fatal , is going to leave a suppurating wound . |
| 21 | The abnormal can be left , for news of it will inevitably rise like a suppurating boil . |
| 22 | If one is sure that the remedy is correct ! and there is no improvement then it is likely that a maintaining cause in the patient 's way of life or environment is influencing his progress . |
| 23 | One can not reconcile the calculation until it is realised that a clad score equals 21 , and the treatment of fractions of a penny is individual . |
| 24 | Unaware of the news which had spread swiftly throughout the city , Wilson returned to the Casa Guidi late in the evening , not really thinking to see Mrs Browning again but wishing to enquire after her and to take a knead cake she had made specially . |
| 25 | With a growled exclamation against her lips he tightened one hand in the silky blonde strands , and slid the other down to trace lightly the hollow at the base of her throat , then lower to skim the striped silk of her blouse over the swell of her breasts , an expert , fleeting exploration which drew a gasp of reaction from her yet left her taut and shivering in frustrated anger … |
| 26 | • One senior Mercedes-Benz executive admitted the vulgar V12 badge on the C-pillar of the S-class was a triumph of marketing over design and quickly added that it was a delete option intended for the Japanese and Americans . |
| 27 | When I was sick I experienced a eat deal of love and consideration . |
| 28 | In all except N. battus the male has two sets of parallel rays in each of the main bursal lobes ; the female has a truncate tail with a small spine , and the egg is large , ovoid and colourless ( Fig. 18 ) and twice the size of the typical trichostrongyle egg . |
| 29 | Aldridge went clear from a lobbed pass by Neil McNab and rounded keeper Ludek Miklosko for his first in the 17th minute . |
| 30 | naming the source of a heard miaow |