Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two letter of thanks were then read — the first from Edith Harlow thanking all the teachers for the lovely handbag , matching gloves and cheque which were presented to her at the Essex Rally together with a jewel box , cheque , flowers and an iced cake all given by Essex teachers and class members . |
| 2 | Descend easily to a point level with the base of the stack . |
| 3 | The stunned reaction to ‘ Vitriola ’ provides a worrying moment , as Lesley 's vocal contortions fly headfirst into a brick wall of bemusement . |
| 4 | Send now for a Tile Information Pack . |
| 5 | Interviewers and cameramen with slavering lips and wolfish grins ( all Americans are dogs ) press forward over a film set piled high with gaunt striped-pyjama 'd corpses . |
| 6 | This route would have been wishful thinking to the classical organic chemist hut the reaction proceeds readily in the presence of rhodium , one of the rarest metals , and of iodine , which act together as a catalyst system . |
| 7 | Put together with a faith vision of the contemporary social world as inherently secularist and radically subversive of Roman catholic values , the combination is significantly reactionary and ethnocentric . |
| 8 | Cutting should be about 9in long , cut just below a leaf joint at the bottom , and just above a leaf joint at the top . |
| 9 | Cut just below a leaf joint , and trim off the bottom leaves together with the stipules ( the small scalelike growths at the base of each leafstalk ) . |
| 10 | Twenty-five years ago , a building contract was regarded by surveyors , clients and contractors alike as something to be signed , put away in a filing cabinet and brought out only in the unlikely event of a dispute . |
| 11 | If , for example , a firm were to amend its sales budget half-way through a budget period the personnel responsible for production need to know this amended sales budget so they can plan and make provisions to ensure the products are available for sale . |
| 12 | So er I mean you can actually say to your children , well okay you know if I , we die tomorrow in a road accident , there 'd be a liability to tax , erm and say the estate 's worth two hundred thousand , then fifty thousand would be liable to tax at forty pence in the pound , so there 'd be twenty thousand pound debt to pay to the revenue . |
| 13 | Sylvester Stallone has just filmed Cliffhanger , described as ‘ Die Hard on a mountain top ’ , and before then audiences will see Wesley Snipes take on hijackers in Passenger 57 . |
| 14 | We have included in our proposal this year twenty thousand revenue effects of a hundred thousand pounds capital bid on traffic calming and other similar measures , something which is very popular around the city , as long as you ask people what they want first and which in previous years we put forward as a revenue bid . |
| 15 | The specific route being investigated by the County Council is a modification of the blue route put forward in a consultation exercise at the beginning of nineteen seventy nine . |
| 16 | They look rather like a music CD but they are kept permanently inside small plastic cartridges for protection . |
| 17 | After all , mass-produced will always be mass-produced , but the whole point of mass-produced electrics is that you can walk into a store , pick the very best example from a row of several , spend a little money on a great setup , and maybe some pickups , and still save enough over a custom guitar to buy yourself an extremely nice amplifier . |
| 18 | They already open only on a part time basis . |
| 19 | it look just like a ski resort all the bright jackets and the woolly hats and it was lovely , I mean they made it into , into an absolute skating ring for driving on |
| 20 | ‘ Guido was right , you look just like a Botticelli nymph ! ’ |
| 21 | Contracts should be structured so that if the company does n't release any recordings during a certain contract year , the artist has the option to terminate the agreement and look elsewhere for a record deal . |
| 22 | You sound more like a Noel Blake man ! |
| 23 | ‘ And while you 're getting out of there , you run straight into a patrol car and they arrest you after a chase . |
| 24 | And then look forward to a winter date with the man in the flesh at the Ulster Hall on October 19 . |
| 25 | Alternatively , chop the ginger and coriander together in a food processor — this will produce a vibrant , bright green filling . |
| 26 | The system as a whole has to be " smashed " and set aside by a vanguard party of intellectuals which leads the working class in extra-and anti-parliamentary action towards socialism ( see also Chapter 7 ) . |
| 27 | We land just after one o'clock and get straight into a Jag jam-sandwich ( so a ford at both ends — ha ! ) . |
| 28 | There are 14 tie rods which pass laterally through a Merlin crankcase ; two through each of the seven main caps . |
| 29 | Wrap tightly in a polythene bag until ready to roll . |
| 30 | One driver told the interviewer : ‘ I 'm always thinking that they 're sat back in the office thinking ‘ Where has he got to ’ , and it puts you on edge so I always drive faster in a company car because time is against me . ’ |