Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carry on through a strip of woodland and over a second stile . |
| 2 | Half way through Edward gave up , scraped the rest into Tam 's food bowl and put the kettle on for a cup of tea ; behind him , Tam slurped as though rescued from the brink of starvation . |
| 3 | Mrs. Feather says : " I 'll put the kettle on for a cup of tea . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've got the kettle on for a cup of tea . ’ |
| 5 | She put the kettle on for a cup of coffee . |
| 6 | made with all milk you see , and I put this on the other day , it was Monday , and I put it on for a cup of coffee , well Jim was out the front with Tom cos Tom fixed the front door |
| 7 | ‘ You 're to ride Shine On for a spot of work . ’ |
| 8 | Caducius had been found by Alexander McKenn and Maurice Harknett in the 1960s and dived on for a period of time before being forgotten . |
| 9 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 10 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 11 | He can stay on as a sort of pensioner up at Framwell . ’ |
| 12 | Philip was taken on as a sort of pupil-teacher , helping with the children and also furthering his own education . |
| 13 | She feels sorry for smokers — ‘ Nowadays , I think it is looked on as a sort of disability ’ . |
| 14 | In May of 1920 , a new Minute Book was started , so complementing the newspaper reports from now on as a source of information . |
| 15 | If anyone have seen pictures from our game against Poland he came on as a substitute for Fjortoft as lone attacker — and he played brilliantly for the 20 minutes he was on . |
| 16 | Dan Jackart , the other capped prop , went off with a damaged shoulder in the first half against North Harbour but came on as a replacement for Szabo . |
| 17 | For both reasons , the amount of looking at the listener should go down during a phase of speech production which involves a large amount of cognitive planning . |
| 18 | We just go down for a bit of practice a few nights before . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Boom , Boom , ’ says the boogieman , as he coolly shoots his lady down , rams her into his car , steers off to his house , gets a bang out of watching her walking the floor , and then settles down for a bit of baby talk . |
| 20 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 21 | ‘ I lay down for a rest after lunch and was about to drift into sleep when there was a definite pop inside me , which made me think my waters had broken . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , ’ Yanto began hastily , ‘ I was told he got pinned down for a week in no-man 's land during the battle of the Somme in 1916 . |
| 23 | In the middle of digging they all sat down for a mug of tea . |
| 24 | " I 've only popped down for a cup of tea . " |
| 25 | And when she went down for a cup of tea , her mother mentioned casually that Parr had gone to Belfast , not to England as expected , although she did not know why . |
| 26 | If it 's something like that erm , all will go back and check that erm the researcher in as a matter of course , a couple of months and make sure |
| 27 | Any essential communication should be sent in writing and all letters of acceptance should be sent in as a matter of urgency . |
| 28 | Now yes this is very very welcome indeed , but I do see it Mr Chairman in the experience of the past and that really with the hard work that you both have put in as a piece of paper it is now in the computer as far as I can see and I think there is a term now within agriculture and I will give you an example of this and I think it now , it may apply I think to our road system particular particularly in the north , north Suffolk , yeah I think the term is set-aside , and I hope that some time central government will acknowledge that within this eastern region certainly the Lowestoft area and Waking area we have very great problems , because these pieces of jigsaw do not come into the full picture , they 're put in place now and then and later and in apparent it is giving us a very great problem certainly within the last |
| 29 | I said , ‘ I am older than you , sir ( how easily that polite ‘ sir ’ crept in as a mode of address ! ) — old enough to discover that finding out often leads to less pleasurable states of mind than mere ignorance ! ’ |
| 30 | In an otherwise mixed year for the British sports car , TVR 's 1992 will go down as a year of achievement and of huge promise for the future . |