Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This silly and childlike regressive behaviour can not be allowed to go on in a relationship in which a couple care for one another . |
| 2 | We are able to stand down for a while in the evening to get some sleep , write letters , play darts or watch TV . |
| 3 | Now we will be able to come up with a plan in response to the many issues raised . |
| 4 | Ford knew they had to come up with a winner in the Mondeo and I think they have done just that . |
| 5 | Pilot David Moore , 47 , of Downend Horsley , Glos , was flying too low to pull out of a loop in front of horrified crowds , the South Manchester coroner heard . |
| 6 | When this is suggested , the invitation should always be along the lines of : ‘ I 'd love you to come out for a run in the car with me some time . |
| 7 | Recession , in making people unemployed , weakens worker organisations and limits the utility of the strike weapon ( the only real weapon of labour ) because labour is reluctant to come out in a situation in which the hold on a job is precarious . |
| 8 | All systems go , then his father died and he threw in his hand to set up as a GP in Falmouth . ’ |
| 9 | There was a relationship between Jean Simmons ( then married to Stewart Granger ) and Burton which was so close that he continued embracing her , publicly , after the stroke of midnight one New Year 's Eve , only to look up to a slap in the face from Sybil , who instantly left the party — for New York . |
| 10 | This thing he was putting himself in for was not ordinary athletics , but a curious hybrid of a sport which , it seemed to Jazz now , was so peculiarly rooted in the old British tradition that anyone pretending to come into it wearing a bloody turban was going to stick out like a clown in a gathering of clerics . |
| 11 | Sir Hector , who will have his own form to fill in as a farmer in Dumfriesshire , says in the letter : ‘ I recognise that many of you will be fed up at the prospect of yet more literature and more form filling . |
| 12 | It is said he had to put up with a sofa in the corridor until his identity was revealed . |
| 13 | Now it was an established custom that we very often used to go out to a strip in the desert away from the camp where we could indulge in circuits and landings to our hearts content without being related to the hour by hour flying that went on at the Base camp . |
| 14 | I want to go out for a ride in the open air . ’ |
| 15 | Ipswich3 Newcastle2 IT IS still mathematically possible for Ipswich to miss out on a place in the Premier League next season , but with five games left against teams from the bottom eight only a fool would bet on it . |
| 16 | There was an early nineteenth-century firescreen to go back to a house in Trinity Street . |
| 17 | On the M40 , our police driver struggles to keep up with a car in the outside lane . |
| 18 | The pot was taller than a man , and a prisoner had to climb up on a table in order to extract a sample with a huge ladle . |
| 19 | Ardiles is believed to be top of Spurs chairman Alan Sugar 's wanted list to take over as manager and is expected to fly back from a holiday in Argentina to discuss a possible move later this week . |
| 20 | On the positive side , I would argue that these devices may make it easier to withstand setbacks , to hold on to a belief in ultimate victory when times are hard , because they all underline the continuities of racial oppression . |
| 21 | And the poser 's dead embarrassed because this other boy knows him and he 's just spotted him trying to get off with a girl in a shop , not his sort of style at all , and he blushes all over , scarlet , even his ears , I noticed the ears . |
| 22 | ‘ If thieves have taken to the roads you 're likely to end up with a hole in you like … ’ |
| 23 | A mathematical analogy might help us to see what is involved here : to affirm a real affirmation is positive , but to affirm something which is itself negative is to end up with a negative in the same way — no better than what we are criticizing . |
| 24 | He could hear her hairdryer , almost as hard on his nerves as a dentist 's drill ; it had ruined three attempts to get the message down already , but he did n't want to ask her to lay off for a while in case the uneasy peace was threatened yet again . |
| 25 | Henry was about to move out of a place in Tite Street . |
| 26 | A crisis tends to arise out of a deterioration in health , or even the death of a carer , spouse or relative . |
| 27 | From the ‘ savings , ’ as they are referred to , funds have been redeployed to make up for a decade in which growth of support for basic scientific research was , at best , sluggish . |
| 28 | Every now and then he stopped to peer out through a slit in the tent wall arid check that Jacques Devraux was still seated with the American hunting party at the table in the canter of the clearing . |