Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up my briefcase , started out the door and asked the FBI agent on the case to see me downstairs to a cab because I did n't feel very safe in Chicago . |
| 2 | Gradually , however , Joe came to see me less as an interloper and increasingly as a friend who happened to share both his home and his mother with him . |
| 3 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 4 | You do n't have to gather them together in a group in order for that to be a successful piece of creative activity . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't want to meet them again in a hurry . |
| 6 | And the Quixote himself sounds too light , and lacks that dominating nobility of expression that allows him to impose himself suddenly on a scene hitherto occupied almost exclusively by the Boy and the orchestra . |
| 7 | If you 're trying to catch somebody immediately after a crime , you grab every man you can and smother the area . |
| 8 | However , after a lively meeting with directors , Reg was persuaded to carry on as coach by three men in a hearse who asked to meet him outside during a beer break . |
| 9 | It crossed Cora-Beth 's mind that this girl 's feelings towards Harry might well change if she were to meet him again after an absence of two years , but she bit back her words , fearing that the suggestion , were she to make it , might put the idea into his head . |
| 10 | Puddephat had given evidence , saying Melanie Gandell had been one of his brightest students , and he had gone out of his way to encourage her academically as a result . |
| 11 | I went to visit her just for a coffee or something , and she started saying , after a lot of stuttering , that I was having an affair with her husband . |
| 12 | Although this was an extremely delicate operation for Nizan to perform , given that in 1934 he had carried out the rather complex act of ideological rehabilitation designed to demonstrate that Gide 's intellectual itinerary was such as to lead him inevitably to a commitment to communism , he none the less succeeded in combining professional respect for Gide 's qualities as a writer with penetrating criticism of what he considered to be Gide 's superficial analysis and hasty dismissal of the Soviet state . |
| 13 | Fulham can now continue to lease the ground for the next decade and have the option to purchase it outright at a price of just under £8 million at any time during the 10 years . |
| 14 | This explains the emergence of out-placement counsellors , consultants who specialise in aiding out-of work executives to sell themselves effectively in a buyer 's market . |
| 15 | Lieberson in a powerful and detailed critique of experimental thinking in social research , after all one of the cornerstones of variable analysis , argues that although most data in social research are non-experimental in origin , they are " treated as if they were truly experimental data … sliced , chopped , beaten , molded , baked , and finally artificially coloured until the researcher is able to serve us proudly with a plateful of mock experiment " . |
| 16 | ‘ I should like to see you alone for a moment , Caroline , if you please . ’ |
| 17 | A party of people sets out on a journey with all its different components like the jumbled up pieces of a jigsaw puzzle , Sophia thought , waiting for something — some event or just the passing of time — to fit them together into a whole . |
| 18 | They are , however , making use of a tool to help them just as a botanist might use a magnifying glass . |
| 19 | These styles are still sufficiently popular to survive , although any attempted ‘ re-fit ’ would be likely to sweep them away as a matter of principle . |
| 20 | But his voice pushed at her urgently , as if , having broken the barriers in his own mind , he needed to sweep her quickly towards a resolution . |
| 21 | Knowing that the opening of a cup is round , it is false to depict it simply as an ellipse ; ideally the object is shown as a combination of plan , section and elevation . |
| 22 | The development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose . |
| 23 | The development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose . |
| 24 | 1.8 The three profile components we recommend are as follows : • speaking and listening — with one attainment target : the development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose . |
| 25 | speaking and listening — with one attainment target ; the development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose ; |
| 26 | I 've lost whatever it was that used to draw me there like a magnet . ’ |
| 27 | A useful test of how effective your section headings are is that it should be possible to string them together into a paraphrase of what the essay says . |
| 28 | we can always ask to put them away for a week yeah that 's what I might do |
| 29 | ‘ It began to overhaul itself only as a result of demands from the public and from individual scientists . ’ |
| 30 | Without these criticism lacks intellectual rigour , and is unable to justify itself adequately in a world in which the personal and social utility of the arts is increasingly called into question . |