Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Is there a certain time when you always love to sit down with a relaxing drink and something to eat ? |
| 32 | In the evolutionary version , the payoffs are changes in fitness ; hence , although they may be difficult to measure , they do fall naturally on a linear scale . |
| 33 | Weary constituency and trade union delegates , queuing for a cup of tea and a sandwich , constantly risk ending up with a signed copy of someone 's memoirs . |
| 34 | If standard steps are followed on each occasion , it should be easier to prevent mistakes occurring and ensure that the terms are incorporated into all contracts ; in addition , if the normal procedures do break down on a particular occasion , it may be possible to rely on the previous course of dealing . |
| 35 | Critical or significant lesions do occur however in a high percentage of patients . |
| 36 | Cover with plenty of cold water and leave to soak overnight in a cool place . |
| 37 | And of course what very often happens these days , with such a high level of unemployment , is if it 's a fine that 's decided upon — and I think something like in three-quarters of the cases dealt with by Magistrates do end up with a fine — that it has to be scaled down because of the erm poor circumstance , poor financial circumstance in which the defendant is . |
| 38 | With children , I mean , you sometimes find that children have that kind of dream , they do find a bathroom and then they do wake up in a wet bed . |
| 39 | With the help of counsellors , residents here prepare to go back to a normal life … without drink . |
| 40 | ‘ You 've fallen in with a right bad pair there , chief . |
| 41 | Lee was prodding at the hide with a stick , Caspar leaping about like a mad thing . |
| 42 | And they 've come up with a splendid route , over 80 miles of miles of deep valley walks , riverside and forest walks ending with a cliff top section at Filey . |
| 43 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 44 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 45 | Having been through the usual bass/guitar/drum formative years , they 've moved sideways to a shiny guitar/keyboard sound which draws on the good bits of the early '80s , without being retro . |
| 46 | If that is all you 've got even with a double lock , locking action it is very easy to open up . |
| 47 | You 've got off to a good start , Deirdra , so keep writing — and reading ! |
| 48 | They 've got off to a good start with a pair of eighteen carat gold and turquoise earrings donated by the Elizabeth Gage company of London . |
| 49 | All through this they 've cried out for a modern definition . |
| 50 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 51 | If you prefer to start out as a pay-as-you-go rower , try the Nottingham-based National Water Sports Centre 's Rowing Club . |
| 52 | Obviously there are other aspects of intelligent behaviour , some of which Bali may discourage ; perhaps a time will come when he tells himself ‘ I 've run away from a big world to a little one , I was wrong ’ . |
| 53 | No , Chief has n't set any questions , erm , the other change to this has been to remove the fire 's special interest and we 've put in as a separate paper , so that we can bring them up to date . |
| 54 | Companies do not , always , on the basis of existing collaboration , wish to move directly to a purpose-built building . |
| 55 | It sounds like you 've ended up with a reasonable machine in the end , though , and Works is a good integrated software package . |
| 56 | ‘ Instead of which you 've ended up with a half-grown female in a hat like a tea-cosy . |
| 57 | There 's little hope of much change from a fiver once you 've splashed out on a basic box of 12 . |
| 58 | This is appropriate , for the story that the letters not so much tell as adumbrate comes through with a wistful fragrance that is very affecting if one reads slowly . |
| 59 | That does n't mean we have to go around in a great lather of gratitude all the time . |
| 60 | Well we got the rock and roll ones first well they have , them two have to go together in a certain place cos them are all the rock and roll ones and them are not . |