Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 2 | It must not brown , but should be left to bubble for a few seconds before being removed from the heat and left to settle . |
| 3 | Carwyn desperately wanted to come through a few heats of the Pipeline Masters . |
| 4 | It became the Chancellor 's habit to interrupt his morning procession to work for a few minutes of Cabinet Room conversation with the Prime Minister . |
| 5 | Before dusk Holly and those who had arrived that day were taken to the Bath house to stand for a few moments beneath the trickle of lukewarm water . |
| 6 | Mustard should be allowed to stand for a few minutes after mixing and before serving to allow the flavour to develop , but mix little and often the flavour will be retained but the pungency will soon be lost . |
| 7 | Remove the meat from the pan and allow to stand for a few minutes before slicing . |
| 8 | Sprinkle the yeast over the water in a cup and leave to stand for a few minutes in a warm place before stirring to completely dissolve the yeast . |
| 9 | The son of Caerleon is a progressive type , apparently certain to come of a few pounds for that introduction , and should be good enough to take the Queen 's Own Yorkshire Dragoons Stakes . |
| 10 | The same old commentators are wheeled from channel to channel to comment on the same snippets of film . |
| 11 | There was a movement in the undergrowth and a rabbit bobbed out into the clearing , settling to feed within a few feet of where he stood . |
| 12 | It arranged for groups of identically qualified white and black applicants to apply for the same jobs in Chicago . |
| 13 | Thought you might be able to help with a few snippets of case law . ’ |
| 14 | Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing . |
| 15 | The key issue is not how to reduce the observer 's role to zero ( or even to an absolute minimum ) but simply how to render it at least as explicit , as clear , and as quantitatively specifiable as any other aspect of the system under study , so that other observers will know how to look at the same phenomena from the same perspective , should they care to do so . ’ |
| 16 | This indicates that drinking is often a response to an inability to cope with the many losses of old age . |
| 17 | I was afraid to go to bed , or even to sleep for a few moments in my chair . |
| 18 | We have provided an access fund to the institutions to enable them to deal with the few cases of hardship that genuinely occur . |
| 19 | It should also help if you leave the paper to rest for a few minutes before stretching with gum strip . |
| 20 | Although most children remain well as long as they stick to their diet , a few seem to relapse after a few years for no apparent reason . |
| 21 | Similarly some women ca n't or do n't want to ride in the latter stages of pregnancy but would like their horse kept in work . |
| 22 | The difficulty appears to me to be that there are too many people in the business seeking to compete in the same areas of demand , without any very great clarity about the sources of their own competitive advantages . |
| 23 | Publicity officer Frances Hopwood told the Herald : ‘ It would be a difficult task trying to report on the many aspects of Le Court which have benefited from her influence and forward thinking during these 19 years but it is thanks to her that Le Court has evolved to be the ‘ flagship of the Leonard Cheshire Foundation ’ . ’ |
| 24 | Air is so vital that it is only possible to live for a few minutes without it . |
| 25 | They had declared at his accession , they had repeated often since , that they desired him to reign upon the selfsame terms as his predecessors ; and yet they made him aware , whenever it was needful to ask for a grant of money , that in fact he stood upon ground subtly changed , and must ask as a favour what had been Richard 's unquestioned right . |
| 26 | The old woman ducked quickly back into her soft cave , to linger for a few seconds by the animal . |
| 27 | My uneventful watch , as we steamed slowly south , gave me plenty of time to think about the many advantages of cruising in these waters compared to other coastal areas I knew , where complex systems of buoyed channels lead the mariner through an unseen maze of shifting shoals . |
| 28 | Allow to dry for a few hours before painting with gold food colouring . |
| 29 | I was n't going to rush around buying horribly expensive things like smoke salmon that I could n't afford , I was going to do a big family feast and I was going to get in a few games like the monopoly or lotto or you know , I just , I have n't worked it out but I thought oh what fun |
| 30 | A firm of solicitors experienced in this work will also be able to advise on the many areas of law which impinge on the conduct of takeover offers . |