Example sentences of "and [vb base] [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theda gasped , glancing down at her hurting hand and back up to find a malevolent twist in the old lady 's wasted features . |
| 2 | Tip in the rubble or ballast and tamp down to form a firm base , leaving sufficient depth for mortar and slabs |
| 3 | Add the onion and fry together fur a further minute . |
| 4 | So here we go , boot toecaps are suitably polished , draw the leg back slowly and stand by to put a large boot into architects . |
| 5 | The parallelism may be less transparent : in 22 foot and scrutinise have a parallel relation to bill , and in 23 foot and add up have a parallel relation to bill . |
| 6 | If you run It backward you will see the pieces suddenly gather themselves together off the floor and jump back to form a whole cup on the table . |
| 7 | The visiting party , who were the first and last ever to get a good look at the crater of Perboewetan , found it to be about 1,000 metres in diameter and about fifty metres deep , with a small pit , also about fifty metres deep , in the centre of the crater floor ; it was from this pit that the steam cloud was escaping with a great roar . |
| 8 | The appointment , held until 1670 , associated him with an energetic department and Duncombe here acquired a modest reputation for administrative skills . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , these are the key principles held by those who see themselves more as multiculturalists , and continue explicitly to take a critical distance from antiracism ( cf. |
| 10 | In other words , let us avoid a priori assertions about human nature and try instead to perform a systematic explication of indigenous ideas concerning human nature and social and cosmological relationships . |
| 11 | Then , slowly , in spasms , the skies dilute like saturated watercolours and bleed away to let a pale frail lemon sun shine through . |
| 12 | While PCs can have 9-pin and/or 25-pin serial ports , you should only find 25-pin ports on external modems — internal modems fit into an expansion slot and do n't require a physical serial port socket . |
| 13 | And do n't come a bloody car park do n't put the board up . |
| 14 | Being in love leaves this huge hole in your self , and if you 're adolescent , and do n't have a clear concept of yourself , then you are just a hole , an outline . |
| 15 | And do n't let a million postcards tell you otherwise . |
| 16 | That way , you know where to find them and do n't risk a lengthy search at the last minute , which may be boring and off-putting for both of you . |
| 17 | If you too believe you 're being exploited and do n't get a decent wage why not give us a call and tell us about it . |
| 18 | Dioxins are also suspected to migrate into drinks made with chlorine-bleached coffee filter papers and tea bags , although MAFF states that the amounts extracted are very low and do not present a significant danger . |
| 19 | Jacobite seditious words , by their nature , express the belief that James should be King and not William ; often the speeches recorded in the legal documents are short and cryptic , and do not offer a full explanation of how that belief came to be arrived at . |
| 20 | In particular , they are not associated with non-gonococcal urethritis and do not produce a typical vaginal discharge . |
| 21 | Textbooks have a register of their own and do not provide a suitable model for imitating in your essay-writing . |
| 22 | They rely for their action on enhancing the mechanical action of manual scrubbing and do not have a true chemical activity . |
| 23 | Certain tender varieties of narcissi , like ‘ Paper White ’ and ‘ Grand Soleil d'Or ’ , are naturally early flowering and do not need a natural or artificial cool period in order to flower quickly and healthily indoors , but they can not be planted outside afterwards . |
| 24 | Such organisations are flexible and constantly changing : they adapt to the environment in order to create or maintain the conditions necessary for success in the task , and do not become a mere part of the machinery as , for example , project teams are disbanded as soon as their task has been completed . |
| 25 | There is a major issue here , but I want to note it and move on to consider a different aspect of how race and class intersect . |
| 26 | This developing insight should allow the designer to specify the design problem , and choose when to apply a modular approach or an optimizing approach at later stages in the design process . |
| 27 | The more poppy numbers such as Come Back Baby and Slide Away have a fuller sound with the addition of violin and drums . |
| 28 | Leaving aside the famous names , which will inevitably be more costly , great numbers of obscure and humble folk have chosen this friendly and attractive method of identifying their precious books and have thereby secured a small niche in the history of bibliophily . |
| 29 | Units are available on flexible leasing arrangements and have already proved a great success . |
| 30 | CACI have identified 2380 areas of concentrated retail activity and have thus created a comprehensive picture of retailing in Great Britain . |