Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the scent was so fresh , it was obvious the beasts would be unwilling to leave for a while , so Grant decided to ignore them and push on with the next stage of their operation . |
| 2 | Just over two million of our pupils sit down to a knife-and-fork meal at midday . |
| 3 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 4 | On Saturday nights around 30 people sit down to a four-course SE Asian banquet . |
| 5 | Every Sunday the family get up early for an enormous American breakfast — pancakes , ham , waffles with maple syrup , and then later on in the afternoon they all sit down to an English roast . |
| 6 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
| 7 | Then lie or sit down on the nearest piece of furniture , try to keep warm and wait calmly for help to arrive . |
| 8 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |
| 9 | Just wait until the last day , when you come , you sit down on the fucking stool and each leg goes like that ! |
| 10 | Basically , I just sit down with a little Pignose amp and a tape recorder and play all night . ’ |
| 11 | Thank you for your interest , comrade , sit down in the listening corner and I shall begin . |
| 12 | Over supper we sit down in the low evening sun and watch the hills change from one blue to another , to mauve , to grey , to black . |
| 13 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 14 | Back down in the secret gareden there 's still plenty to explore , including more tunnels — some of which are not empty … |
| 15 | Sweetman turned a furious smeared face at us , then drove his garish boat hard at Wavebreaker 's hull to gouge a long scratch down to the bare metal . |
| 16 | The BBCBASIC(Z80) programs that use these routines should move HIMEM down to the same value before they PROC_load the assembly code routines into the address at which they were originally assembled . |
| 17 | The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly as the marchers and their supporters wind down after a hard day . |
| 18 | But the Signpost Hotel Guide survey of 300 hotel owners showed that fewer people are bothering use a false name when they book in for an illicit weekend . |
| 19 | The story of some of these presses is a fascinating one to follow , as the printers surreptitiously pull off their pamphlets and broadsides in some kitchen or remote country house , load up and press on to the next location , with an eye ever over their shoulder for the pursuers . |
| 20 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 21 | These issues I touch on in the latter part of the chapter . |
| 22 | The heroes you have kind of linger on from a prior period when only a few records passed through your life , when you had the time to get fixated , spend weeks living inside a record . |
| 23 | For the large flag , paint a straw with silver food colouring and when dry , glue on to the large paper triangle . |
| 24 | She thought of the dream she had sometimes in which she was leaning over a bridge and watching herself drown , watching herself slip down under the clear water and not giving a damn . |
| 25 | but the melt down of a cast-iron relationship |
| 26 | When we 're talking to the people on the phone we home in on a thousand pound . |
| 27 | Home in on a particular aspect . |
| 28 | Head down to the local travel agent and check out the availability of sun-drenched spring breaks at resorts catering to families with small children ; |
| 29 | Dyson looked at old Eddy , head down behind the dusty newspaper files , nothing visible of him but his tousled white hair . |
| 30 | If you clamber down to the low water mark when the tide is receding ( the ‘ ebb ’ tide ) , you will find dry land appear before you and rivulets of water flowing out towards the sea . |