Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can stay on as a sort of pensioner up at Framwell . ’ |
| 2 | Both laboratory experiments and numerical simulations have demonstrated that plumes can arise only at a boundary between convective regimes , such as that between the Earth 's core and mantle at a depth of 2,900 km . |
| 3 | If he returned home in the evening he would sometimes dine with John Hayward but , since Hayward was an inveterate diner-out , he would often eat alone from a tray on his knees . |
| 4 | The loop could act only as a monitor to be interrogated in the case of breakdown of comprehension . |
| 5 | Rather , they can act only as a guide to decision making by making the assumptions underlying the decisions explicit . |
| 6 | The Frenchman , before turning to her sons , let his glance fall pointedly for a moment to the swell of her breasts tightly bodiced beneath a new Fifth Avenue day dress of sheer white silk chiffon ; then he smiled secretly at her again and this undisguised expression of passionate interest brought a faint flush to her face . |
| 7 | ‘ All you have to do is hang in for a couple of days , ’ she told herself . |
| 8 | The barn owl can swoop down on a mouse in total darkness , guided only by a faint rustle in the undergrowth . |
| 9 | Lanham predicts the emergence of a new ‘ rhetoric of the arts ’ which will focus not on a set of ‘ Great Ideas ’ but on ‘ how knowledge is held ’ ( 286 ) , both on the medium and on the message , and of course , on their interaction . |
| 10 | Finish by saying ‘ now all fall over ’ and , as you do it , you lean in to the person next to you and everyone will fall over like a row of dominoes . |
| 11 | Using EBG , one might observe just one species , a sparrow , and deduce that any bird with short wings and a short beak could survive comfortably on a diet of seeds and insects . |
| 12 | If any of us let go and started breathing again , one of them would fall off into a lake of mud . |
| 13 | I jerked back , tingling with fear , feeling it peel off like a strand of elastoplast . |
| 14 | So , for example , your High Elf army could include up to a quarter of its points value as Wood Elves chosen from the Wood Elf list , or Dwarfs chosen from the Dwarfs list . |
| 15 | So , for example , your Orc and Goblin army could include up to a quarter of its points value as Dark Elves chosen from the Dark Elf list , or Chaos chosen from the Chaos list . |
| 16 | So , for example , your Empire army could include up to a quarter of its points value as Wood Elves chosen from the Wood Elf list , or Dwarfs chosen from the Dwarf list . |
| 17 | The relay will usually free up after a couple of doses of light oil in this manner . |
| 18 | Baboons will gang up on a leopard in a similar way , although this is a risky venture . |
| 19 | As a Save Eldorado Campaign splutters on , the writers seem content to let it fizzle out like a glass of flat Spanish beer . |
| 20 | You ca n't save calculations , but you can track back through a chain of arithmetic , alter figures , and see the alterations reflected in the final sum . |
| 21 | We could just fall back on a bit of sweets and chocolate or something in the end but I 'd like to get some |
| 22 | Or you can hang out in a part of the music if you like the verse . ’ |
| 23 | Do you wait around with a gun in your hand to shoot me down when I finally stagger out ? |
| 24 | Elementals often appear as a moving light or a change in temperature , or they may take the form of an animal or bird and make it behave oddly for a period of time . |
| 25 | Interview schedules can fall anywhere on a scale from the completely structured to the completely unstructured , and many include questions of several types within the same schedule . |
| 26 | However , each represents a recognisable stage of achievement , so that the student can build progressively towards a range of demanding and useful competences . |
| 27 | Mind you , I suspect she 'll only stay ashore for a couple of hours , but that 's better than nothing at all . ’ |
| 28 | Nothing could stay outside on a night like this . |
| 29 | The unity of the discipline is to some extent an external facade , a matter of appearance ; from the inside , it may appear rather as a constellation of specialisms , more or less closely related . |
| 30 | Initially , the new system would break down as a result of faults in the computer programs . |