Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could neither remain unemployed for eighteen months nor begin a new job now and break off after only a year . |
| 2 | ‘ Hang on in there a minute , my lovely . |
| 3 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |
| 4 | Well I 'll book it up erm , find out at least a week before hand . |
| 5 | Leave on for about an hour , then shampoo thoroughly . |
| 6 | So all through the anxious days of incubation until the dull-plumaged infants are fully fledged , he and the hen move about without even a whisper . |
| 7 | Oh , yes , because rings come in to quite a bit of wear do n't they ? |
| 8 | He said : ‘ We have dominated our last two games and come out with only a couple of points . |
| 9 | The purchaser will have conducted its own investigation of the vendor 's business in the negotiations which lead up to either an agreement in principle or a more formal acknowledgement of agreement by the use of heads of terms ( see Chapter 1 , page 9 ) . |