Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colleagues are impressed ( and sometimes alarmed ) by her willingness to link large philosophical issues with day to day matters ; for example , high state expenditure and taxation mean less for the ordinary citizens to spend as they choose . |
| 2 | Turn into a lightly floured board and knead gently for a few minutes . |
| 3 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 4 | 5 Return the turkey or chicken pieces to the pan and cook gently for a few minutes . |
| 5 | Add the bacon and venison and cook quickly for a few minutes , stirring frequently , to seal the meat . |
| 6 | Add the ginger , garlic and Curry Powder , fry gently for a few minutes . |
| 7 | But if we wait patiently for a few picoseconds until the charges rearrange themselves there will be no further motion and the problem belongs to the realm of electrostatics . |
| 8 | When a dog does start to show signs of becoming difficult about a visit to the surgery , you may want to arrange with your vet simply to walk up to the waiting room , pause here for a few moments and then return home . |
| 9 | Stop anywhere for a few minutes on a summer 's day and you are likely to end up as an unpaid extra in next year 's calendar or on a biscuit tin . |
| 10 | just lie here for a few moments . |
| 11 | Look too for the green/silvery leaves of sea purslane which has green/yellow flowers borne on short , branched spikes . |
| 12 | In more and more grounds , fences and grilles have been built around the ‘ ends ’ and the areas set aside for the visiting supporters , further highlighting the sense of territory . |
| 13 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 14 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 15 | Finishing the script , I would leave it for the typist and go home for a few hours ' nap until rehearsal time at two o'clock . |
| 16 | Go home for a few hours . |
| 17 | Stay there for a few minutes and you will begin to experience one of several sensations : it may be a slight breeze , or perhaps a tingling sensation , heat ( especially in the palms ) , static or even a magnetic pull . |
| 18 | In contrast to some other low-income countries in Africa , most children do eventually get to primary school and stay there for a few years . |
| 19 | If you opt instead to send relatives and friends money to spend as they wish on their children , it 's worth shopping around as costs differ considerably for the various methods . |
| 20 | If you opt instead to send relatives and friends money to spend as they wish on their children , it 's worth shopping around as costs differ considerably for the various methods . |
| 21 | If you opt instead to send relatives and friends money to spend as they wish on their children , it 's worth shopping around as costs differ considerably for the various methods . |
| 22 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 23 | A common result of this is that when the philosophers deny autonomy to women , they do so for the same sorts of reason that they deny it to children and cite lack of rationality , capriciousness and vulnerability among their characteristics . |
| 24 | G.M. Fairbairn ( 'H' , V6427 ) , Sgt. E.B. Inman ( 'J' , V6460 ) , and their crews being lost — a grim indicator of what lay ahead for the anti-shipping units . |
| 25 | The next stretch northward for a hundred miles or more showed the variety of the Romanian countryside . |