Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb base] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police inquiries so far have drawn a blank . |
| 2 | Her colour 's dreadful ; Anya 's little sleeping draught may have been harmless , but the day and night just past have taken a toll . |
| 3 | In movements such as ‘ hi-tech ’ , objects most clearly come to exhibit a principle of utility quite detached from any consideration of actual purpose , as the style is applied ( as was streamlining in its day ) indiscriminately to steam irons or armchairs . |
| 4 | Marketing folk here always like to promote a face as well as a product . |
| 5 | The whole notion of bed blocking seems to imply that older people enter hospital and then wilfully continue to occupy a bed which , in the views of staff , they no longer require . |
| 6 | The little rodents make brave , taunting rushes at the deadly reptiles and sometimes even risk delivering a lightning bite to their bodies . |
| 7 | Because the process is extremely flexible , customers no longer need to buy a minimum of one tonne of alloy . |
| 8 | Too much bother to fetch a raincoat . |
| 9 | People have said , I 'm taking driving lessons , but I never ever want to drive a car again in my life , afterwards . |
| 10 | Erm , may I make a comment on neighbourhood watch , I went to er a job the other day , it was a theatre , I was off duty and er I got tapped on the shoulder by my local neighbourhood watch co-ordinator who said , nine months ago I resigned , I wrote a letter to headquarters , I wrote a letter to the divisional commander , and I wrote a letter to the local constable , and nobody 's replied to me and they still keep sending me papers are you gon na get your act together , now I I have brought this up before , we never ever have let a neighbourhood watch scheme lapse , it 's nothing to do with you , this is all before you came |
| 11 | Erm , Richards view having seen some of these reports now , for the continuous surveys , is that we actually really do need a T G I procedure and then another procedure , very simple , just stating how the continuous surveys are different for Access , B T , health . |
| 12 | As he later admitted in an interview with CA Magazine , ‘ I said to someone at the time , I never again want to conduct a debate lasting three years without once being able to raise my voice ’ . |