Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come and sit down for a minute while the lasagne finishes cooking . ’ |
| 2 | Right , just sit down for a minute and let's , Michael read his first . |
| 3 | You either sit down for a meal or get ready for bed and the phone goes . ’ |
| 4 | Sit down with a pen and paper and make a list of the things you have wanted to do in the past few years . |
| 5 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
| 6 | Moreover the fractal transform technique provides perceptual resolution independence : zoom in to a picture and instead of getting a blocky , pixellated image , the software gives a realistic effect by actually adding detail in that was n't in the original . |
| 7 | Using something tangible like photographs keeps the memory load down to a minimum and eases the stress of always having to think of something to say . |
| 8 | Or grind down to a powder if you want to add it to smooth sauces . |
| 9 | Home in on a cause that you can do something about . |
| 10 | They were awake before dawn and for the second time they heard the chorus begin as a trickle and grow swiftly to a torrent as the birds welcomed the great Trumpeter . |
| 11 | If these lines come into contact with others of ‘ foreign ’ material such as a polyester , then they melt through in a trice and your kite is away , floating down on the breeze leaving you with two rather expensive short ends . |
| 12 | The experts at Poly know that we want more from a perm than just curl so they have formulated a product that does much more . |
| 13 | They will be correct when they explain the advantages of new fabrics , they will also be correct to laugh when you explain what you already use , and you will be bewitched when you try on something fantastic , comfortable and attractive that they slip surreptitiously from a hanger while they talk . |
| 14 | And those that do , grow up in a sub-culture that is a disgrace to England ; unable to read or write , born to crime as a way of life , most of them have never even seen the inside of a church . |
| 15 | Does detail build up to a whole or is detail obtained by microscoping the whole ? |
| 16 | Classifications of most landforms are in a sense unsatisfactory , because there is usually an infinite variety of forms , some of which fit well into a classification and others only with extreme difficulty . |
| 17 | In the morning the visitors would be on the quay to see them return , slip neatly into a mooring and begin the unloading and selling of the night 's catch . |
| 18 | But I left the first of her three Sunday night shows feeling vaguely let down after a set that mixed the great with the gaffs . |
| 19 | The gens is a group of people who act together on an egalitarian and communal basis . |
| 20 | Tired and exhausted mentally and physically ; break down in a sweat and become excited and irritable . |
| 21 | The curds are lifted onto muslin-covered racks and cut through with a knife before they are left to drain . |
| 22 | Relax outside in a deckchair whilst the youngsters explore the rockpools or play in the sandpit . |
| 23 | I speak not as a lawyer but as a politician . |
| 24 | ‘ It must be awful being old and put away in a home because no one will have you at home and look after you . ’ |
| 25 | Although they embody a real-world claim about how agents are motivated , they function more like a paradigm than a generalization . |
| 26 | People will help themselves and save you a lot of work , as will buying paper plates for everyone to use and making the buffet a finger buffet with lots of little bits and pieces of food , and nothing that has to be served onto a plate with a spoon or cut up with a knife and fork . |
| 27 | the theories of accumulation on a world scale , or the capitalist world state , or lineages of absolutism depend ( a ) on the same displaced percipient and historicist observer who had been an Orientalist or colonial traveller three generations ago ; ( b ) they depend also on a homogenising and incorporating world historical scheme that assimilated non-synchronous developments , histories , cultures , and peoples to it ; and ( c ) they block and keep down latent epistemological critiques of the institutional , cultural and disciplinary instruments linking the incorporative practice of world history with partial knowledges like Orientalism on the one hand , and on the other , with continued ‘ Western ’ hegemony of the non-European , peripheral world . |
| 28 | Ye ken , ye walk up tae a door and it opens of its ain accord . |
| 29 | Tip on the concrete and level out with a rake until it is just about the level of the formwork |
| 30 | You walk around in a skirt and wear a bra , how was I to know ? ’ |