Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have a modem you can log on to a bulletin board and download it . |
| 2 | He will stay on in a consultancy role for a few months until his successor settles into the job . |
| 3 | Let us think rather of a twin track approach , in which custody is reserved for those who commit serious offences . |
| 4 | I should n't think so for a minute darling . |
| 5 | I chose to visit London over other European cities , in part because I thought collectors back home would relate better to a city scene in which all the signs were in English , billboards , signs and marquees are often important elements in a city scene . |
| 6 | I chose to visit London over other European cities , in part because I thought collectors back home would relate better to a city scene in which all the signs were in English , billboards , signs and marquees are often important elements in a city scene . |
| 7 | Teddy can also line up with a party balloon and there 's a heart motif to complete a picture to knit and give with love . |
| 8 | As a Golf Plus Club Member you can enjoy up to a 20% discount on a year 's subscription to Britain 's best golf magazines bringing you the best pictures and best coverage of your favourite game . |
| 9 | Why should she hang around on a window seat in the middle of the night ? |
| 10 | ‘ There ai n't no trains out , around that time ; and a gent like him would hardly hang about in a station buffet ! |
| 11 | The main reason for this was pointed out in Chapter I ( : the beneficiary of a trust had a relationship with the property under trust , but it was one which did not fall neatly into a civil-law category . |
| 12 | ‘ I just think there is an enormous number of people out there who would benefit most from a fitness centre who through either shyness or disability wo n't go near them . ’ |
| 13 | A company employing ten workers might lay off two in bad times ; ten self-employed workers would probably carry on with a 20% reduction in their turnover rather than voluntarily go on the dole . |
| 14 | But , if I were to identify a trend , I would do so on a retailing analogy . |
| 15 | As an alternative to placing your account with a bank , you may do so at a building society , many of which offer similar services . |
| 16 | What else did you do just as a cabin boy ? |
| 17 | The arts are especially important and effective in arousing spiritual awareness because they can speak directly at a feeling level , as well as being free from any slavish dependence on religious ideas which are often rejected out of hand by secularists . |
| 18 | Flynn and his pals clean up Dodge only to feel suffocated by a town so decent it ai n't fit for a man to live in and head off in a joke finish for the still-wild Virginia City , which Flynn cleaned up in an unconnected follow-up . |
| 19 | ‘ And to keep that feeling together I will try and make arrangements that we can all team up for a leisure day . ’ |
| 20 | When the unsuspecting man was safely ensconced in a deep slumber , Jarman would pull two bolts from the floor below , and the bed , which was screwed to the floor , would tip up to a 45° angle , sliding the poor wayfarer into a great vat of boiling fat strategically placed below . |
| 21 | Would she grow up into a street urchin , plimsolls , no socks , grimy tee shirt , with a London accent grating on a nicely-brought-up ear ? |
| 22 | His gouverneur or chief guardian was General Frossard , but it was the wish of the Emperor and Empress that apart from obligatory public appearances , which were confined to a minimum , the child should grow up in a family atmosphere . |
| 23 | Er you 'll find that we do have actually have a calculator which we can send out with a retirement pack and that actually gives you an aide-memoire to actually remind you about the things that you might forget erm with regard to erm things like er holidays er erm say , medical expenses , er fuel expenses , erm club fees , T V licence , all those things . |
| 24 | It will do well in a gravel medium with plenty of detritus . |
| 25 | get it and er they 've brought the full and then they say if you must smoke , smoke then with a filter tip one and that |
| 26 | We know nothing of his campaign , except that it was limited to a single season and that the Silures did not appear again as a fighting force . |
| 27 | The sides must battle again for a quarter-final place on December 16 , but the odds are now stacked against Howard Kendall 's men after the way they lost their grip on this fiercely-contested fourth-round tie . |
| 28 | That helped meet police costs that rose by 16 per cent to a record level of £9.28m , although the Trust did weigh in with a £2.24m contribution . |
| 29 | A coffin-maker could look up to a funeral furnisher rather than to an undertaker ; an undertaker might have respected the funeral furnisher in as much as he could afford to buy in his coffins ; whereas the funeral furnisher , whilst relying on the coffin-maker , looked down on the undertaker ( Col. 2 ) . |
| 30 | Once the bus stopped , however , he was immediately up and out , using the ten minutes available to sketch in the ingredients of a scene which he would later work up in a hotel room . |