Example sentences of "[vb base] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I may be old-fashioned , ’ Alec sighed , ‘ but I hate experimenting in a lonely spot like this . ’ |
| 2 | On the back of Wall Street 's overnight strength , the FT-SE 100 cash index rose 33 points at the outset and , with the futures index opening at a hefty premium , looked poised to turn in a record-setting performance . |
| 3 | However , not to discourage those who seek absolute perfection , we suggest starting with a secondhand camera of 6 x 6cm ( 2 1/4 X 2 1/4 in ) format and roll film . |
| 4 | In a dialect poem of 1730 on the West Riding the master clothier and his wife appear breakfasting at a common table with their family , a few journeymen , servants and apprentices before setting down to weave together from " five at morn till eight at neet " . |
| 5 | Vividly picture going on a wonderful shopping spree , buying everything you have ever dreamt of , with great joy and exuberance . |
| 6 | ‘ Polly , stop behaving like a demented Tory at Calais ! |
| 7 | For example , it may instruct its members to go-slow or work-to-rule or it may call for selective strikes ( in which certain groups of workers stop working for a specified time period ) ; or all the union members may be called out on a one-day strike . |
| 8 | Larry Hawkins , president of Chicago 's Institute for Athletics and Education , thinks he has an answer : stop battering on a closed door , and try an open one . |
| 9 | In February 1990 , while I was still Minister for Housing , I wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer : ‘ There must be a danger now of a demand squeeze turning into a real threat to supply-side confidence . |
| 10 | Bury ( 1988 ) provides some interesting ideas about how the debate can be moved forward by designing research projects which examine ageing from a longitudinal perspective . |
| 11 | Individuals begin training in a martial art for many different reasons , for fitness , for self-defence or purely for the discipline that it offers . |
| 12 | The same applies in the labour market where workers made unemployed do not immediately reduce their asking wage and take up a new job — instead , they spend some ( possibly quite considerable ) time searching for a new job at the old wage . |
| 13 | In my view this country is filled with immense new moral forces which have been dammed back for ten years by the great dead bulk of the Labour Party Machine lying like a fallen tree across the road to progress . |
| 14 | Because , deep down , the majority of college lecturers are probably frustrated actors who enjoy performing before a live audience and who , therefore , want to keep the academic lecture as a means of boosting their flagging egos . |
| 15 | On such a morning , I remember dressing in a freezing bedroom , then coming down to the kitchen with its brightly flaming coal fire , dad having been up much earlier to coax the sleeping embers to life . |
| 16 | The Office 's constitution changed in 1877 , control passing to a Meteorological Council . |
| 17 | Too few libraries train according to a pre-arranged plan and many are not only unable to justify the methods used for the processes taught but may actually be unaware of what these methods and processes are . |
| 18 | I well remember going as a new convert into a Baptist church for the first time : how strange I found that row of five deacons ' chairs which dominated the scene , and even stranger the little cups for communion . |
| 19 | How do f what do you think of the cos you know for you know Speaking as a senior citizen , do you what do you think of the facilities loca lo here ? |
| 20 | I remember playing in a reserve game with six internationals at Coventry before a 25,000 crowd . ’ |
| 21 | I remember sitting in a cold school hall studying for my O-levels by candlelight . |
| 22 | I 've said how much I like programming from a simple map printed on top of this type of unit ( BOSS 's ME-6 and ME-10 operate in a similar way ) , and the A4 really could n't be simpler . |
| 23 | ‘ I remember thinking for a long time afterwards that it must have been Uncle Titch 's , ’ said William , and Preston stared at him in astonishment , shocked not so much by the thought of Uncle Titch and Mary Moxton in carnal embrace as by this sudden insight into William 's dark imaginings . |
| 24 | Here Rousseau himself demonstrates in his oscillating interpretations a history that can not be linear , nor operate according to a single temporality , disturbing instead , the time of the line or the line of time ’ : |
| 25 | Patients undergoing surgery sometimes find talking to a spiritual counsellor provides psychological comfort , even if they do not usually practise a religion . |
| 26 | In 1989 outline planning for a similar development there by Bellway was refused by Middlesbrough Council 's economic development and planning committee . |
| 27 | If your courage fails when it comes to devising and playing music try collaborating with a fellow teacher . |
| 28 | It already exists — try driving with a defective headlight and you 'll find out . |
| 29 | Other infections strike resulting from a motley bunch of bacteria — some carried by cats , birds , or cattle — which normally cause humans little problem . |
| 30 | That 's going to be hell on earth if you keep dissolving into a mushy heap every time he so much as looks at you . ’ |