Example sentences of "and [vb base] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I 'm going to take another triangular bandage and I 'm going to open it up and make just a little fold , this is going to go on her forehead and that little fold just helps with keeping it firm and stopping the bandage slip , now , just put it around the forehead like that , okay ? |
| 2 | Ann Winterton , Tory MP for Congleton , called for a full legal review and a policy decision by the Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , to examine the options and bring forward a new law . |
| 3 | Your recollections will no doubt revive a lot of memories for many of our older readers and provide quite a few talking points for younger ones . |
| 4 | England 's best known bridge was built across the Thames in 1888–94 , and cost over a million pounds . |
| 5 | The tattoo was a moment 's impulse and cost just a few pounds , but now it 's taking up the time and resources of the NHS . |
| 6 | I knew he hoped to take the treasure , cut every honest throat on that island , find and board the Hispaniola at night , and sail away a rich man and a murderer . |
| 7 | It was nice to fill up with Perrier till your bladder was bursting , then go in the gents and let forth a good stream . |
| 8 | It is even cheaper to pool your resources with four or five other bands and put together a composite album . |
| 9 | How soon do we abandon it and put together a new plan ? |
| 10 | Since then while Oxford have continued to struggle Sunderland have sacked their manager and put together a winning streak which has brought the fans back . |
| 11 | ‘ Lately I 've been getting a hankering to play country music again , so I 've got together with a friend and put together a fun band called Modern Farmer . |
| 12 | This allows us to drop all other energy levels from the analysis , and consider only a two-level atom . |
| 13 | You will , in theory , be able to walk into a dealer 's showroom and drive away a road-ready car without even having to take a spanner to it . |
| 14 | That said , an integrated package will fulfil the basic needs of most people , except for the most demanding power user , and hog only a minuscule fraction of your hard disk compared to the 15Mb monsters now in fashion . |
| 15 | Models are not the real thing , and what looked like the something from the future world of Dan Dare on the cover of the new Eagle comic was to be and feel quite a different slab of concrete . |
| 16 | A simple solution is to use an old film canister and carry just a few hooks leaving the open box at home out of harm 's way . |
| 17 | As the population grew land rents soared , multiplying sixfold between Emancipation and the turn of the century , thereby enabling the nobility to cream off and fritter away a huge surplus from peasant labour . |
| 18 | And the disingenuous becomes invidious when this is set against an attempt to locate blame for economic dislocation on its victims , cast inner city residents as ‘ a poor social mix ’ ( Trippier , 1989 , p19 ) , and offer instead a radical recasting of multi-national capital as the means of saving the inner cities . |
| 19 | They would however presumably agree that since the great majority of manufacturing firms are small businesses and employ only a small number of people , there would still be scope in manufacture for a considerable extension of the industrial co-operative sector . |
| 20 | But they were unsystematic and not sustained , and form only a minor qualification to the general proposition : it was the concerted efforts of Barbarossa in the 1150s and 1160s which first seriously checked the spirit of independent prosperity . |
| 21 | After that you 'd think that Cov would man-mark Wallace out of the game and throw forward a few players . |
| 22 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 23 | BARE ROOTED : This means the trees have been pulled up by their roots and have only a small chance of survival if planted out . |
| 24 | Light chemical washes simply task the edge off the harsher colours , reproducing a degree of the tonal mellowness that comes with age , and have only a minimal effect on the integrity of the pile . |
| 25 | I am now in Capt. Friend 's office and have only a short time to write before the post leaves . |