Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subject : ‘ Youre going home in a Swedish Ambulance ’ |
| 2 | The basic assumption of geometric perspective is that although parallel lines never meet , they appear to do so at a vanishing point , on a distant backcloth . |
| 3 | And then a rite of reconciliation for those who 've lapsed from church membership , or from the practice of their religion , and want to start again in a purposeful manner . |
| 4 | I 'm quite keen to make a distinction between what you might call victimless crimes and crimes with victims , and that it is , it seems to me , we want to move away from an older pattern in which the university had its ideas of how people should behave and tried to make them conform to those ideas , towards a much more complaint activated system of response , so that it 's the kind of behaviour find objectionable that the authorities may get drawn into looking at . |
| 5 | I propose to begin therefore with a terminological clarification . |
| 6 | She wanted to eat her cake and have it , put Georg away in a little box for the future , when she 'd finished having a good time . |
| 7 | Samuel Rhodes , the viola player of the Quartet , has had a larger size instrument made which enables the normal viola range to extend downwards by a fourth . |
| 8 | I hope to stay here for a long time . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I hope to get home at a reasonable time tonight , but it rather depends on what Kegan wants . |
| 10 | Val Williams points out that the busy and accomplished women Edis portrays ‘ seem to function forever in an organised unflurried context … her control of light and shade invests interiors with a luminosity which sometimes serves almost to sanctify the participants in her photographs ’ . |
| 11 | The watching Masai begin to walk away after a long , contemplative moment . |
| 12 | First , the European Parliament , supported by the Netherlands , wished to acquire more substantial powers for itself , especially over the EEC budget , and so begin to look more like a genuine legislature . |
| 13 | ‘ If we comb through our stories and one encounters with wild whales and dolphins , we find that they seem to hang together along a shining thread — that whales and dolphins know what they are doing , that their actions are purposeful , and stunningly specific to the occasion , that they intend us no harm , that they are aware . |
| 14 | There 's a feeling of belonging and caring ; the demonstrators seem bonded together by a common link . |
| 15 | This result conforms to the trend established in previous surveys which shows that Scottish exports follow that of the UK but tend to do so in an exaggerated fashion . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Critical or significant lesions do occur however in a high percentage of patients . |
| 19 | Cover with plenty of cold water and leave to soak overnight in a cool place . |
| 20 | You use semicolons and colons to indicate specific relationships between sentences that you wish to connect together into a larger , composite sentence . |
| 21 | ’ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If that is all you 've got even with a double lock , locking action it is very easy to open up . |
| 26 | The point is that we will never know what God can do with us until we 've ventured forward with a little faith . |
| 27 | I share the spoils with Sunil , to whom I 've spoken vaguely about an eccentric rich friend . |
| 28 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | Companies do not , always , on the basis of existing collaboration , wish to move directly to a purpose-built building . |