Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also have broad noses and sideways facing nostrils , and tend to sit in a hunched position when at rest . |
| 2 | ‘ I may be old-fashioned , ’ Alec sighed , ‘ but I hate experimenting in a lonely spot like this . ’ |
| 3 | It is the way we intend to proceed in a whole range of different market areas . ’ |
| 4 | Tubifex is collected by scooping up the mud patch containing the worms , and then washing the mud away to leave clean worms which tend to gather in a tight ball . |
| 5 | By impacting with neighbouring particles they vibrate about a locus , and only appear to remain in a fixed position . |
| 6 | There are members of the European parliament who s s support Strasbourg as a meeting place clearly , but the majority do not , the majority want to meet in a single city and in so doing the majority have accepted that there should be a new European parliament building in Brussels and that European parliament building now operates . |
| 7 | If you are between 8 and 14 and want to participate in a dark journey of the imagination come to the VALLEY OF DOOM . |
| 8 | If you are between 8 and 14 and want to participate in a dark journey of the imagination come to the VALLEY OF DOOM . |
| 9 | All Muricaceans ( see Appendix 1 for the classification ) that have been studied closely appear to feed in a similar manner ( Carriker , 1981 ) . |
| 10 | Darley Anderson has sold television rights to Martina Cole 's bestselling Dangerous Lady ( which Headline bought in a two-book deal for £150,000 ) . |
| 11 | This sense of purpose and of confinement to " legitimate " objectives is briefy conveyed in a single sentence describing events at Malmesbury : " They seized all the corn ; sold it at 5s [ 25p ] a bushel , and gave the money to the right owners . " |
| 12 | That you still want to compete in a young man 's race , even though it might kill you ? ’ |
| 13 | And obviously you want go in a little bit before that just in case somebody comes . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to live in a big house , with lots of rooms . ’ |
| 15 | Murid , cricetid and microtine molars are structurally different from each other , but their incisors are more similar and appear to alter in a similar way when subjected to digestive corrosion . |
| 16 | ‘ Hmm , maybe , ’ replied Rachel thoughtfully , then , changing the subject , she said , ‘ I think I 'll go to lunch now , then later this afternoon I want to get in a quick swim . ’ |
| 17 | ( c ) Position conflicts : the position you take in one piece of litigation may be at odds with the position you want to take in a subsequent action ( for example , in advancing the cause of a plaintiff you may adopt a position that puts you in difficulty with some defence clients who are less than impressed with the vigour with which you espouse the plaintiff 's cause ) . |
| 18 | I feel I can encapsulate the feeling in the music and then say what I want to say in a direct manner . |
| 19 | The inability , so far , to properly confront issues of race is largely due to the huge number of white volunteers who simply find it too painful to accept that , because of their culture and upbringing , they tend to behave in a racist manner . |
| 20 | Lawyers tend to play in a zero-sum game ; doctors do not . |
| 21 | ‘ Many people tend to specialise in a certain topic such as sport or pop music but I concentrate on general knowledge . ’ |
| 22 | And , if my memory serves me right , you stand to rake in a tidy sum on that . |
| 23 | Mozart 's work is exquisitely crafted : the instruments seem to engage in a continuous dialogue by turns thoughtful and considered , passionately enraptured ( as in the hauntingly beautiful C minor slow movement ) , and — in the rondo finale — playful , each soloist spurring the other on to more daring feats of imitation . |
| 24 | Individuals begin training in a martial art for many different reasons , for fitness , for self-defence or purely for the discipline that it offers . |
| 25 | Lacking only her native forest ( now probably half chewed away by acid rain ) , and the dorf ( whose last inhabitants ' bones still lie jumbled in a secret pit ) our Anya has found herself a little home from home . |
| 26 | Just as certain behavioural habits develop , such as vomiting after every meal , so women with bulimia can develop habitual thoughts and begin to think in a bulimic way . |
| 27 | Once through the Suez Canal and into the Red Sea the ‘ black out ’ rule was relaxed somewhat and you children then enjoyed the warmth and the swimming pool , and the kindly Scots captain who greeted Mig every morning with ‘ Hoo 's Maggie the morn ? ’ and the nice stewardess who had taught Mig to reply in a Scots voice , ‘ Maggie 's fine , thank you for spierin' ( asking ) . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Is nice , ’ said Adam , lapsing into broken English like foreigners tend to do in a strange land . |
| 29 | erm and then you can , I mean , well it gives you the opportunity to , you know bang in a bloody jazz band or whatever you wan na do in there somewhere |
| 30 | ‘ Too often both policy makers and practitioners get trapped in a vicious circle ’ which involves research as well . |