Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing . |
| 2 | General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas , builders of the super-expensive A-12 fighter for the United States Navy , want the Pentagon to bail them out of a possible $2.7 billion overrun on the development and production of A-12s . |
| 3 | It only remained to write everything up in a comprehensive report . |
| 4 | Erm I 've not done this before and I wanted to try it out with a small group like yourselves to see how we go on with it . |
| 5 | The district council then had to spend almost £250,000 to bail it out of a financial crisis . |
| 6 | There is no failure because you have to work it through in a new way at forty or fifty . ’ |
| 7 | If you try that with erm a piece of wood , you try to pull it out into a long thin wire it would just break . |
| 8 | I am always happy to work myself up into a great cultural stew , given half the chance . |
| 9 | Back in Chapter 4 , I mentioned that pull-ups were very useful exercises because they strengthen the muscles needed to pull yourself up over a high wall . |
| 10 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 11 | However , he has said : ‘ If social services want to keep some kind of data about the additional services which may not immediately be necessary , I do n't think the process is going to open them up to a legal threat . ’ |
| 12 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 13 | There was little enthusiasm , then , as the paper moved towards the alien financial world of the City to set itself up as a public limited company . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'll have to feed you up with a good meal before you go , ’ said Sister Margaret . |
| 15 | Riding on a high she had decided to set herself up as an independent designer . |
| 16 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 17 | It sets out , by example as well as by direct command , the differences between right and wrong , so that the man who measures his conduct by Bible standards gains from it both " reproof " when he is in the wrong and " correction " to set him back on a right course . |
| 18 | His head bent towards her and once again Jenna lifted her hands to ward him off in a panic-stricken way , but her fingers felt useless . |
| 19 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
| 20 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 21 | Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution . |
| 22 | Only you can answer this and you might need to talk it over with a close friend if you want to get to the heart of your feelings on the matter . |
| 23 | set to shoot it out for a good cause |
| 24 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 25 | He took one hand off the controls to sweep it out in a large gesture that took in the whole of the City of London . |
| 26 | It is possible to cover yourself up to a specified limit , for the loss or theft or fraudulent use of money and credit cards . |
| 27 | He knew no cheap place here any more and he would have to search one out like a blind man . |
| 28 | " They claimed that they ought to be [ treated as ] free coloni by birth , and that Deodadus the monk [ responsible for running the Mitry estate ] wanted unjustly to bend them down into an inferior service by force , and to afflict them . " |
| 29 | Women can certainly be competitive as individuals , but are less so at the group level ; many of us who went to all-girls ' schools found the competitive team sports at worst a real trial and at best something of a joke , even though we were quite prepared to put ourselves out in an individual context . |
| 30 | There was nothing like a flower to cheer you up on a dark day . |