Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fashion for opera , its current potency to promote anything from a fast car to a pension scheme , does not venture beyond Puccini . |
| 2 | Or you could ask the author to supply one for a modest £7.50 . |
| 3 | The result is that riders who want to avoid heatstroke have to wear as little as possible under their jackets and most of us men have n't got used to innocently looking round to see someone undoing her jacket to reveal nothing but a clingy bra underneath ! |
| 4 | Most of us men have n't got used to innocently looking round to see someone undoing her jacket to reveal nothing but a clingy bra underneath . |
| 5 | It costs the taxpayer £130-£165 a week to keep someone in a residential or nursing home , he says . |
| 6 | compared with the Minister 's adjusted figure , and that even the Association of Yorkshire and Humberside Chambers of Commerce is now calling on the Government to do something about a sinking economy ? |
| 7 | Forest Mere , which is owned and run most luxuriously by the Savoy Group , really is the most wonderful place in the world to revive one after a tiring period , and remove any aches and pains . |
| 8 | In the second the ‘ stage of conventional morality ’ , the child judges people by their intentions in carrying out something , and then moves on to believe it is a persons duty to do something in a particular way . |
| 9 | Kissing in this form , as a proper way to greet someone in a certain relation to oneself , is a social convention . |
| 10 | Many a Harvard dealer has needed to haggle with one of the market-makers in the adjoining room , in order to obtain something like a fair deal for his client . |
| 11 | In the ordinary case , the breach of a promise to do something by a certain time can for practical purposes be remedied by the thing being done , even out of time … |