Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone could wave a magic wand , and I could change something , I think I 'd like to go down a couple of cup sizes . |
| 2 | Democracy is not always taken to signify only a form of government , or of choosing a government : it may be a term applied to a whole society . |
| 3 | They kept slipping away , as her father had already slipped away , with no more than a mumbled excuse , to jot down a line of verse that had presented itself while he stood in some abstraction . |
| 4 | Normally , it can take forever — well , even months at times — to extract just a nugget of information from the Pentagon , but this time minutes only . |
| 5 | You used to come once a week for dinner |
| 6 | It is permanently divisive , as well as educationally mean and unadventurous , to establish deliberately a kind of school within which the curriculum is so inward-looking that those who followed it could not , for example , hope to proceed to higher education or ultimately into one of the professions . |
| 7 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 8 | Their duty is to tell blacks that although group political activism can stop discrimination , growing rich , wise and safe is then up to the individual — to hammer home a message of homework , punctuality , saving and self-discipline , the things that helped America 's immigrants get off the floor . |
| 9 | The department is actively developing a programme of MSc degrees to provide both a grounding in research methodology and the opportunity to develop research competence in particular fields . |
| 10 | I referred to Yorkshire six minutes ago — it has taken the hon. Gentleman that long to work up a head of steam . |
| 11 | And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing . |
| 12 | the same sort of thing that Noel bought last year when he saw one of the men in the village , using it to pull out a lot of weed from undergrowth , really |
| 13 | A man like Guy Sterne was n't likely to blurt out a confession of guilt at the first accusation , was he ? |
| 14 | Citrine 's policy was the standard one : to hammer out a consensus by discussion . |
| 15 | It played on his mind for a time and eventually he had to work out a kind of therapy to get her out of his brain . |
| 16 | Some of the President 's advisers on industrial recovery wanted a national plan , with the Federal government in command ; others wanted business and government to work out a scheme of co-operation on a voluntary basis . |
| 17 | The staff development day which is to follow shortly afterwards is to be used by the different year teams to work out a programme of study . |
| 18 | It is best to work out a pattern in advance and draw it out on same graph paper . |
| 19 | ‘ Our Quality Charter states that NICMA members are expected to work out a policy on discipline which does not include smacking children , ’ she said . |
| 20 | It was always wise to work out a line of retreat as well as a line of approach . |
| 21 | It is suggested that governments , in managing the economy , have to work out a trade-off between inflation and the level of employment . |
| 22 | This error is common enough in the literature , but it is disturbing here to find even a hint of support for such thinking . |
| 23 | I could lean forward till my head was between my metatarsals and they 'd still need a zoom lens to catch even a hint of Page 3 . |
| 24 | I was surprised to find there an air of prosperity and sophistication , large hotels catering for tourists , much activity at the harbour and more people on the streets than I thought there would be … |
| 25 | And , er , the other problem with it is , you really have to know quite a lot about history , or biography to really to really get into . |
| 26 | You 've got to know quite a lot about rhythm . |
| 27 | It 's easier to guess why a reduction in market share is taking place than obtain the basic facts and make improvements . |
| 28 | For several weeks he scurried back and forth in the corridors of power , trying to patch together an arrangement for co-operation with the Tory dissidents . |
| 29 | He was able to track down a lot of detail about the original construction and decoration — so he could keep the design and get it back to what it was , but incorporate new features , like a Great Hall without all those pillars , which is much better from the customers ' point of view . " |
| 30 | Then it was back down to ground level to celebrate over a bottle of champagne with Zoe 's mum , Pat , and husband Joe . |