Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always cleanse , tone and moisturise and I put on a face masque every week . |
| 2 | They lend to an airport lounge the look of a grotesque , sprawling creche peopled by monster babies . |
| 3 | We get through a one-gallon tin a day , and sometimes more at the weekends , ’ he said . |
| 4 | When you think about a spreadsheet database the idea to have in mind is of an active list — one that can be asked to supply any of the details you have typed into it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He adds , " To help people in treating their problems may mean even to help them define their problem and select a strategy at stages where so far they are left alone by formalized services which require as a starting point a rather late stage of the process where the person in the need state consciously takes an action . " |