Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much credit is due to the quick thinking of his jockey John Buckingham riding in his first Grand National , in steering him over to the wide outside and popping him through a gap . |
| 2 | LUKE SAT ON AN expo love-seat in Club World at Heathrow , drinking Volvic and availing himself of a complimentary fax machine — clearing up the initial paperwork with Mike on the poem . |
| 3 | The visionary places in the ordinary the elements of the eternal and raises it to a higher plane of reality . |
| 4 | Using the cover of the bushes or whatever , I crouch as low as possible and manoeuvre myself into a position where I know I could cast to them , not forgetting to make a note of a landing site , for it is useless to hook a fish if you can not play it to the landing net . |
| 5 | Mount tubes as close to the front of cabinets as possible and shield them with a baffle or small valance or cornice attached to the bottom of units . |
| 6 | You should remove the cichlids as soon as possible and transfer them to a separate tank which is set-up specifically for African cichlids , or take them back to the place you bought them . |
| 7 | If , on the other hand you are married to a man who , on the surface at least , appears to be more attentive to his mother 's needs than to yours , try not to become upset and regard her as a threat or a rival , and avoid jumping to the conclusion that your marriage is a failure and that you are unloved . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry ; I did n't mean to fall asleep and use you as a pillow . ’ |
| 9 | But it made sense to keep the running titles intact and transfer them as a set to another forme on its way to the press , saving a little of the compositor 's time . |
| 10 | It will make you feel alive and help you towards a new beginning . |
| 11 | Nevertheless the constructive work of Communists in the Blitz and the war factories kept the Party alive and put it in a good position to exploit the opportunities for expansion that followed Hitler 's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 . |
| 12 | If you need to keep them longer , rinse and pat dry and store them in a sealable container in the fridge . |
| 13 | They will need staking and tying to prevent damage from wind and when finished , lift , dry and store them in a frost-free shed for replanting the following year . |
| 14 | I chose Miller for you , he could drink a distillery dry and chase it with a brewhouse . |
| 15 | If the SNP manages to overcome its bitterness towards Labour and join it in a united push for change , the cause of devolution could well be advanced . |
| 16 | Barbara Coleman stopped pouring and fixed her with a very severe look . |
| 17 | There , they are likely to listen sympathetically and you may be lucky and catch them on a quiet day . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's like doing a jigsaw and making your own pieces up ’ , said Mrs Joel as she deftly removed a petal that was too large and replaced it with a smaller one . |
| 19 | He became suspicious and denounced them at a branch meeting . |
| 20 | I should like the opportunity of starving and beating you to a pulp . |
| 21 | ‘ You ca n't just rent a villa or a flat overlooking the Med and install yourself for a peppercorn rent like people used to . |
| 22 | She was jealous and saw herself as a failure . |
| 23 | His friend Sir Thomas Lauder of Grange and Fountainhall tells of one humorous incident where Geikie once followed a particularly pompous , pot-bellied and self-assertive porter through the marketplace sketching as he went until the victim got angry and chased him into a house from whose attic window Geikie completed the sketch with some extra touches to show features of indignation to perfect the picture . |
| 24 | Mrs Carol Rushton , superintendent physiotherapist has returned form the above and presented me with a report on the course . |
| 25 | ‘ Everyone should be particularly vigilant and report anything of a suspicious nature immediately , no matter how trivial it may appear to be , ’ said Beardall . |
| 26 | When he did let it out , he did so in a rather peculiar fashion , linking it to a quarrel with Mauve and casting it in a dramatic mode , with himself in the first and then third person . |
| 27 | ‘ She changed that overnight and left me with a broken heart — I will never be the same again . |
| 28 | I have stopped myself from saying anything as my daughter 's children live round the corner and I have them to stay overnight and take them on a Saturday but they are no bother . |
| 29 | I cut the crop quite green and dry it on a Tyrolean-type wire fence ( see p. 108 ) . |
| 30 | If smoking is allowed it stops people doing it in secret and making it into a clever or fashionable thing to do |