Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHAT do the following have in common : a machine that can write the Bible on a pinhead ; a single-lens microscope that magnifies 1000 times ; a barometer that measures the difference in atmospheric pressure across the thickness of a book ; a 15-cm ( 6-inch ) telescope that fits into a jacket pocket ; and the first bicycle crossing of the uninhabited central region of Iceland ? |
| 2 | L lived some two miles from the burgled premises and during the morning of June 4 , police officers saw bin liners and a cardboard box being carried out of L's home and put into a car . |
| 3 | On these occasions you may be offered a job on the spot , so it is very important to have a good understanding of what you want and need from a job before you go . |
| 4 | We grow and develop as a result of those interactions . |
| 5 | Within hours he was unable to move , speak or breathe without a hospital ventilator . |
| 6 | There is also the further of point that the new tax extends not only to actual disposals but to deemed disposals where , after 17th December 1973 , a chargeable building is first let or occupied to a material extent after the commencement of relevant development , ie , there may thus be a charge to tax not only on realised gains but also on unrealised gains . |
| 7 | A RUGBY match that turned into a bloodbath could be investigated by police . |
| 8 | For example , it is suggested that : " The rooms should be grouped in a simple manner , easy for patients and visitors to find their way around ; the whole building should be on one level and should look as far as is possible both externally and internally like a house not a hospital : there should be a clearly defined main entry/exit point for patients , staff , visitors and supplies which should have a ramped approach and in which the main door should be lockable : WC and washing compartment should be shared between pairs of single bed rooms and should be readily accessible to the sitting and dining rooms ; the bathroom should be readily accessible to both day and night areas ; the WC and the bathroom should be equipped for wheelchairs and standing users : the sitting and dining rooms and the external enclosure should be accessible by wheelchair : rooms should be differentiated in colour and finish while remaining domestic in scale and character : an informal , welcoming and comfortable reception/waiting area is required at the entrance to provide shelter and waiting spaces for visitors : the area between main entrance and sub-section entrances is likely to be an extensive area of circulation and will be the hub of the building but it could also be , spaciously , rather than an enlarged corridor , a positive amenity and focus if designed as a conservatory , for example , to contain plants or even birds and fish providing a stimulus to patients ' visitors and staff , and , finally : the safe external enclosure ( to which I referred earlier , ) should take the form of a walled garden matching the materials of parent buildings , suitably softened with appropriate planting . |
| 9 | I swallow and speak in a tremor . |
| 10 | BLOCKED : Cut and mounted in a block of wood , these are convenient but do not last well . |
| 11 | I really like my new jacket and hat and scarf , and when we stop and chat with a couple of people from the house , they say how smart I look . |
| 12 | Casually stop and look in a shop window and see whether your suspect keeps walking or stops as well . |
| 13 | I stop and think for a moment — shocked by my act of sadism . |
| 14 | Cover and chill in a refrigerator for 30 minutes . |
| 15 | First of all , the Bass VI is a tuned-down guitar , one octave to be precise — EADGBE as opposed to a 6-string bass 's customary BEADGC . |
| 16 | The valley is watered by the River Dee which rises high on Blea Moor and is precocious in infancy , playing hide and seek behind a screen of trees , often disappearing in fissures of its limestone bed and emerging to daylight lower downstream . |
| 17 | I sit and fidget like a child . |
| 18 | ANIMALS suffer and die for a plethora of reasons ; many are arguably trivial . |
| 19 | People sometimes find that their housing requirements change and seek after a period to move on to different kinds of residence , particularly into flats of their own . |
| 20 | With branch lines axed , the only practical rail journeys begin or end in a city . |
| 21 | Er if , if you , if you had , you had to dig a little hole in , in the , in the , by the wall on the , on the pavement like that to hold about sixty four marbles say , and you 'd start off and say , give or give or take give or take as a lawyer , I used to have four marbles , and whoever was taken that was a lawyer of four marbles , I do n't know why . |
| 22 | First is a low-key step of gathering intelligence and planting seeds — just finding out where people stand and leaving behind a germ of the idea to let it blossom . |
| 23 | Watch and hear with a child 's senses . |
| 24 | Watch and hear with a child 's senses . |
| 25 | Examine and agree on a job description first and a contract of employment which you are satisfied with and understand . |
| 26 | Thinly slice and drop into a bowl of water and lemon juice to prevent discoloration . |
| 27 | The famed croaking is more likely to be heard in such tanks , as it 's at its most audible when males meet and display as a threat to other intruding males — or during the mating season as the male pursues the female . |
| 28 | And therefore grumbling couples complain in cars on their way to Harley Street from the Home Counties and beg one another not to let them drink too much : therefore Esther and Alix meet and laugh on a street corner a few hundred yards away : therefore stepchildren muster and stepparents-in-law assemble : therefore Liz Headleand 's mother sits alone , ever alone untelephoned , distant , incomprehending , incomprehended , remote , mad , long mad , imprisoned , secret , silent , silenced , listening to the silence of her house . |
| 29 | Anderson 's long turn , therefore , amounts to an extreme example of what Brown and Yule describe as 'speaking on a topic " , rather than 'speaking topically " ( Brown and Yule 1983 : 84 ) , in that it ignores the previous speaker 's utterance in order to develop a new topic . |
| 30 | But you and I both know that applying for a stay of more than six months takes time . |