Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Like Dorigo and Stuart Pearce , I like to weigh in with a few goals and in pre-season I joked with the lads that I 'd get 15 this year . |
| 32 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 33 | The Fishguard-based crabber Inspire went down in a calm sea when a huge wave swamped it . |
| 34 | This ‘ bad faith ’ operates among the doctors and pharmacists who allow their knowledge and skill to be abused ; among the politicians who wish to see themselves as community benefactors , while knowing full well that they are nothing of the sort ; and even among the poor who are so often critical of the medical ‘ care ’ they receive yet continue to hold out for a medical solution to their social and economic problems . |
| 35 | Drain the grid by touching the edge to filter paper , allow to dry partially under an incandescent lamp , and then place on filter paper in a Petri dish to complete drying . |
| 36 | Smaller animals tend to have higher metabolic rates , just as the engines of small cars tend to turn over at a higher rate than those of larger cars . |
| 37 | Only the Russians and some German Social Democrats keep banging on about a neutral Germany . |
| 38 | And then then risk the life of one of the best rabbits we 've got , just to play nursey while you go wandering about like a moon-struck field-mouse . |
| 39 | Do n't indulge in the verbosity of the amateur , or try to hang on to an inappropriate bit of writing just because you wrote it . |
| 40 | Try jumping down from a low platform , landing with bent knees . |
| 41 | ‘ Like a dog you keep chained up in a dark room . |
| 42 | It is not surprising that Dr L regarded the humanities with some contempt , arguing that students go to sign on for a medieval history course in the arts faculty and |
| 43 | Is there a certain time when you always love to sit down with a relaxing drink and something to eat ? |
| 44 | I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range . |
| 45 | I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Critical or significant lesions do occur however in a high percentage of patients . |
| 50 | Cover with plenty of cold water and leave to soak overnight in a cool place . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | With the help of counsellors , residents here prepare to go back to a normal life … without drink . |
| 54 | You use semicolons and colons to indicate specific relationships between sentences that you wish to connect together into a larger , composite sentence . |
| 55 | ‘ You 've fallen in with a right bad pair there , chief . |
| 56 | ’ It would n't be an overstatement to say we 've carried near on a hundred tons of material of one sort or another up this driveway to our house , whereas it could have been done in a couple of days with permission to drive up . ’ |
| 57 | Lee was prodding at the hide with a stick , Caspar leaping about like a mad thing . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | ‘ We 've come up with a few names . |
| 60 | The young ( you can see it in their faces ) , the stegosaurus rugged no-hopers , the parrot-crested blankies — they 've come up with an appropriate response to this , which is : nothing . |