Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is never a moment when Dustin gets as worried as Gary Cooper in High Noon , although , like Cooper , he has to cope singlehandedly with a number of killers , and is only saved at the final moment when his wife blasts the last opponent with a shotgun . |
| 2 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 3 | My dear Theo , I wrote to you already early this morning , then I went away to go on with a picture of a garden in the sunshine . |
| 4 | Or at least got hold of the basic as I have said , the best way to do this , is to sit down with a piece of pencil and paper and work it out yourself . |
| 5 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 6 | He was ready to go alone among a crowd of suspicious strangers , but what he stood to gain from this risk it was impossible to guess . |
| 7 | Judging from geological surveys , they expect to have to go down to a depth of 45 metres before they find it . |
| 8 | FOR a thriller to really thrill there should be moments when you are gripping the edge of your seat wondering if the star is indeed going to go down in a hail of bullets — one more dead hero . |
| 9 | Sometimes problems arise from the fact that his relationship with his own mother has been unsatisfactory , and he is faced with the hard task of learning from scratch how to relate successfully to a woman of the older generation who has joined his household . |
| 10 | If not , she could try to find somewhere for a cup of tea . |
| 11 | Unashamed nostalgia makes Radio Days ( RCA / Columbia , PG ) a gem to wallow in as a family of Jewish misfits huddle round their wireless at the start of the Second World War . |
| 12 | At first he was asked to stand literally for a couple of seconds before being praised and asked to walk on . |
| 13 | He used to come in for a couple of drinks . |
| 14 | If you 'd care to come in for a cup of tea , now that you 've got out and everything , you 'd be most welcome . |
| 15 | Ken , if we could er look at what 's actually happening out there to pensioners at the moment , I think of which we 're all very concerned , but there has been a small item of good news to balance against the concerns we have for those pensioners that are still suffering from uncertainty and that is some money has started to come in as a result of legal actions and settlements out of court . |
| 16 | Executive members of one of the party 's most active branches , Mossend , confirmed yesterday they had written to Mr Salmond asking him to stand down as a result of the MPs ' decision to strike a deal with the Conservatives in exchange for their votes on the Maastricht bill . |
| 17 | At last , the hand — held European anti — tank missile BRITAIN , France and West Germany have decided to work together on a family of new missiles that will destroy , tanks . |
| 18 | Its quest is for an active invention of a whole pattern of ‘ effective partnerships ’ , to help Northerners and northern agencies of all kinds to work together in a co-operative of enlightened self-interest . |
| 19 | and go out and that , if you want to come down for a couple of days . |
| 20 | If you were to write down on a sheet of paper half a dozen simple statements of fact which were either true or false and then turn the questions face down , the pendulum will come up with which are which . ’ |
| 21 | If cimetidine ( or the hypochlorhydric condition it creates ) as in fact carcinogenic to the gastric mucosa , gastric cancer incidence should be expected to increase only after a period of time after initiation of treatment . |
| 22 | This on-line printer library can magic up a driver for any printer you are ever likely to meet in under a couple of minutes . |
| 23 | ‘ Belgium have won all their four games so far and we need to come away with a share of the spoils . ’ |
| 24 | Management developers will need to help managers to work comfortably within a clash of values . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's too many for us to frighten away with a show of force . ’ |
| 26 | ROS : You march in here without so much as a by your leave and expect me to take very lunatic you try to pass off with a lot of unsubstantiated |
| 27 | During the past two or three years more wives had gone out to work usually as a result of increased economic Pressures on the farm . |
| 28 | Several times on my pilgrimage through Biomorph Land I seemed to come close to a precursor of my insects , but , then , in spite of my best efforts as a selecting agent , evolution went off on what proved to be a false trail . |
| 29 | Whilst recognising that such a survey would be of only indirect relevance to their present situation , the firm has a long history in the area ( since 1890 ) , and its management has an acute awareness that the present local employment situation is likely to deteriorate further without a mix of public/private initiatives . |
| 30 | Lawyers acting for Ferranti concede that there is no chance of getting back the full £215m which the company is being forced to write off as a result of the International Signal and Control fraud . |