Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] with a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Curriculum sections of the ERA , essentially centralising and directive in character , sit uneasily with a variety of other arrangements which undermine the Local Education Authority as intermediary between centre ( DES ) and periphery ( school ) : ‘ opting out ’ , City Technology Colleges ( CTCs ) , open enrolment , local management of schools ( LMS ) . |
| 2 | About 9.30 I sit down with a cup of coffee to read the paper . |
| 3 | If you fancy trying it yourself around harvest time in September , then gather together a few pounds of the bluey-black sloe berries , prick them all over with a fork , smother them in about 6oz of sugar and top up with a litre of gin . |
| 4 | When they do not work effectively , the unmitigated anger may well seep out in constant irritation over relatively trivial things or , as it seems to other people , may suddenly and unexpectedly break out with a degree of force inappropriate to the circumstances . |
| 5 | Savanna animals cool off with a kind of organic radiator by evaporating water from the moist linings of the nasal chambers . |
| 6 | In a two page epilogue the author merely states that nowadays students begin not with a description of chemicals and reactions but by learning Schrödinger 's equation and the shapes of orbitals . |
| 7 | ‘ My mam says he 's prob'ly in prison or run off with a bit of stuff , ’ said one of the hostiles in the playground one milk-break . |
| 8 | Later they meet up with a couple of girls whose telephone numbers Michael finds in his pocket , and as a crazy night out they all have dinner at the Ritz . |
| 9 | Twice a week I meet up with a group of other young mothers for a baby afternoon and — ’ |
| 10 | The two Britishers , Cyril ( McKern ) and Amos ( Alec Guinness ) are making a pilgrimage to the battlefields that scarred their lives , and meet up with a group of Americans : D-Day veteran Waldo ( John Randolph ) , his daughter Beverley ( Geraldine Chaplin ) and an enigmatic widow Lisa ( Lauren Bacall ) . |
| 11 | They stay submerged for ages , until you begin to think you 've only imagined you saw one go in — and then they pop up with a beakful of food . |
| 12 | So if perceptions of party chances vary sharply with a succession of contradictory polls , it indicates that these perceptions are influenced by the published figures rather than by actual political preferences . |
| 13 | Now , you , stand here with a bucket of water and keep the cloth wet ! ’ |
| 14 | The sharp style of leather and suede is an essential this season ; stand by with a wardrobe of contemporary classics including shirts , jeans and western-style jackets in black , rich brown and tan . |
| 15 | Secure loosely with a piece of string or an elastic band and put on to a microwave-safe roasting rack over a disk containing 3 tbsp stock . |
| 16 | A hard disk is required with about two Mb free space , if you have that and an EGA monitor together with a love of gardening , then you should have this program also . |
| 17 | Cultivated gentlemen could , with the help of a very good builder , sometimes get by with a minimum of help from the architect , for these books provided inspiration , theory and practical guidance . |
| 18 | Single notes or octaves ring out with a kind of starry brilliance . |
| 19 | Hack out with a couple of schoolmaster horses — one to lead the way and the other as a back-up ’ . |
| 20 | You will probably , therefore , end up with a selection of varying pictures which could well be useful . |
| 21 | so and you just end up with a list of names or something like that |
| 22 | Now here when you end up with a lot of having arguments and listening to a lot of arguments a lot of them are like win lose . |
| 23 | They might — conceivably — end up with a picture of Doris Day singing Ten cents a dance from the film Love Me or Leave Me . |
| 24 | If women go out with a bunch of girlfriends or men disappear with ‘ the lads ’ , they too tell their partners when , approximately , they 'll be home . |
| 25 | See like erm l l l lorries and all like that , caravans , I mean I , caravans , we used to load the small ones and er we used to have two bars go underneath with a bit of wood on top and we used to have one hand on one end while they cos that was a damn nuisance . |
| 26 | Sometimes I go into a public-house and sit there with a glass of lemonade in my hand , eavesdropping , hoping to hear some treasonable conversation . |
| 27 | go and buy one and dash in with a cup of tea and he I hoped no one called and no one |
| 28 | In noting with regret that this is the final disc in Cappella Nova 's Carver series , I do so with a degree of puzzlement . |
| 29 | We start off with a set of a priori possibilities , namely the set of constructible patterns , and one known achievable state , namely the initial position . |
| 30 | If there are problems getting the cable to the right place , start off with a piece of weighted string , which you can ‘ fish ’ through the hole you have cut , and then use this to pull the cable through . |