Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the only occasion when I personally remember seeing a wicketkeeper coming on to bowl and it may be the earliest such occasion in a first-class game . |
| 2 | She only had to shake a hand to increase the revenue and bring more publicity to the organization than any amount of money could buy . |
| 3 | He was also jaundiced and so had to wear a hood to protect his eyes and lie naked under a constant bright light . |
| 4 | Why had he been so determined to create a second see of archiepiscopal rank in the southern province in the first place ? |
| 5 | I only have to take a moment to get my eyes strong and then I can push it out , this strongness , at anything at all so long as I am staring at it hard enough … |
| 6 | It was learnt yesterday county councillors have already considered ending a schools cleaning contract awarded to a private firm hired to look after Middlesbrough schools after the it notched up 22 default notices between last August and May 1 . |
| 7 | Spanish fishermen continually faced fines for fishing in Moroccan waters under an agreement signed between Morocco and the EC in February 1988 [ see p. 35855 ] , and the European Commission finally agreed to convene a meeting to review the agreement of the mixed committee originally given the responsibility of supervising the agreement . |
| 8 | The story is thus used to teach a child to respond like the wise old tortoise when the cue word ‘ turtle ’ is given . |
| 9 | I 'm just going to grab a bit to eat , because Alan 's still filling out the induction reports , but do n't leave yet until you 've got your induction report , please . |
| 10 | It is nevertheless beginning to demonstrate a willingness to fight its corner should things get tough either after the election or at the periodic review of price limits in three years time . |
| 11 | Joe was in good form , though the time for his retirement was drawing near , and he was already beginning to feel a bit lost and abandoned by people who once fawned on him . |
| 12 | He could easily have got a foot stuck and he would have drowned . |
| 13 | Some of its humour happened to remind him of his friend Mike Nichols , who had just begun making a career directing plays on Broadway with the hit Neil Simon comedy Barefoot in the Park and Murray Schisgal 's Luv . |
| 14 | We 're not picking on you we 're just trying to get a conversation going here like , but it 's very hard when you just sit there and say nothing . |
| 15 | To the commuter , the new red , white and blue house colours just had to represent a commitment to strive for quality . |
| 16 | On the strength of the parcels sent back to him by his brothers-in-law , and what Gould described as his ‘ own exceedingly rich collection , perhaps the finest extant ’ , he had already begun to publish a volume entitled A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia and the Adjacent Islands . |
| 17 | The 6.00 news , this is Annie Webster , Police investigating a triple murder in Buckinghamshire are tonight trying to persuade a man hiding in nearby woods not to kill himself , Paul Chandler reports : |
| 18 | Police investigating a triple murder in Buckinghamshire are tonight trying to persuade a man hiding in nearby woods not to kill himself . |
| 19 | And police investigating a triple murder in Buckinghamshire are tonight trying to persuade a man hiding in nearby woods not to kill himself . |
| 20 | They just stood watching a fireworks display across the bridge at the Expo . |
| 21 | It was part of the evidence he was collecting against himself : he locked at Blighty furtively in the barber 's ; he tried drawing women , sometimes in the nude , always with big busts , in a drawing-book he kept hidden at home ; he desperately wanted to kiss a girl to find out what it was like . |
| 22 | Then you just have to pay a charge do n't you ? |
| 23 | We just need to get a letter set up on the stand alone system . |
| 24 | Not for him the histrionics which always seemed to accompany a Mansell win last year . |
| 25 | One was once seen to use a stone to kill a monitor lizard , but this was probably a mistake ! |
| 26 | A woman of Daisy 's age would hardly expect to have a man invited for her , Sophia decided . |
| 27 | Men still hated to see a woman succeed . |
| 28 | The King hardly needed to have a net laid for him , but had he done so it would have been difficult to assemble , almost in his own backyard , a more obvious team of trappers . |
| 29 | Librarians are gradually beginning to apply a systems approach in which different types of sign are used to illustrate different functions such as orientation , direction , identification , instruction , prohibition or regulation and current awareness . |
| 30 | In neither case , it was submitted , was the society contractually bound to provide a report prepared with due skill and care . |