Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | The fate map should be regarded rather like a train timetable — it tells you only what will normally happen . |
| 32 | The fibres of a healing tendon are initially arranged microscopically in a criss-cross pattern with little strength associated with this scar tissue . |
| 33 | The taxi had stopped eventually at a crossroads in a suburb , and the target had paid it off and walked straight to a man who waited on the pavement . |
| 34 | As usual it will be less well-off smokers who suffer most as a disproportionate amount of their income will be swallowed up in tax . ’ |
| 35 | Has a repeated ‘ kik ’ note , and a ‘ song ’ rendered as ‘ wait , wait ’ uttered slowly on a rising or falling scale . |
| 36 | 2 The defender drives upward with a full knee spring out of the attacker 's reach . |
| 37 | It was a masterpiece of international cinema which brought Korda all the financial backing he could need and a dream deal with United Artists that led eventually to a partnership in the American company . |
| 38 | When interrogated by the FBI in his British jail , Fuchs identified photographs of one of his contacts , Harry Gold , who named a trail of others which led eventually to an obscure machine-shop manager of Russian parentage , Julius Rosenberg , and his wife Ethel . |
| 39 | Instead of towing amplified sweet nothings ahead of the school , they might do better to sit astern with a few well-chosen selections from The Osmonds ' Greatest Hits , or Singalongamax . |
| 40 | At An Lochan Uaine the route leaves the main track , turns right at a post marked blue , climbs the hillside and contours along with views across the valley . |
| 41 | However , at the end of the film , the car driven by Mark ( Sean Connery ) drives right down to the end of the road , and instead of falling into the ( non-existent ) harbour , turns right into a previously unsuspected street or quay along its edge and disappears from view . |
| 42 | The American boy stared at his empty glass , which he had drained nervously at a gulp , and looked uncertainly towards the figure of his mother fast disappearing among the crowd . |
| 43 | Let us think rather of a twin track approach , in which custody is reserved for those who commit serious offences . |
| 44 | At the end of the incubation period , the gel piece is transferred into a new plastic tray containing 300 ml of freshly made DMS-stop buffer ( 0.5 M β-mercaptoethanol , 150 mM Tris-HCl , pH 7.3 , 5 mM EDTA ) and shaken vigorously on a rocking platform for 10' at 37°C ( at this temperature DMS is rapidly hydrolysed accelerating its inactivation ) . |
| 45 | The only giggle ( not a niggle , this time ) I 've had is that , in common with most of the new GST range , the BoP box is filled mostly with a chunk of pink polystyrene — a case of more is less ? |
| 46 | There is clearly mutual benefit to be gained from this acquisition , for both our UK and US companies , and we look forward to this area of our business competing effectively on an international basis . ’ |
| 47 | I have of late had two letters from him , in which he has shown such an easy and familiar way of expressing his thoughts , such a delight for improvement and so much exactness and dilligence in the making of observations that I look upon him to go onward with a curiosity and genious superior to most of his occupation . |
| 48 | They found the babies who were left for longer began to make crawling movements towards the breast after 20 minutes , and after 50 minutes virtually all had suckled correctly at the breast — and were more likely to breastfeed successfully as a result afterwards . |
| 49 | One could perhaps say that the pronoun here refers successfully via a discourse-deictic reference to a prior NP . |
| 50 | In recent years , employment prospects have been excellent and geographers have been placed successfully in a wide range of employment in research , industry , commerce , government , and the professions , either entering directly or by using their first degrees as a foundation for further qualifications . |
| 51 | So that er , Woodrow could experience a full sense of self , to actually relate back to his himself , which er , Wilson er , experienced only as a child . |
| 52 | It would be dry and acid , revealed only to a chosen few . |
| 53 | By the same token , back payments of income support were to be limited only to a three-year period starting in April 1988 . |
| 54 | Yachts wishing to use the canal are limited only by a maximum mast height of 80ft ( 24.5m ) . |
| 55 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
| 56 | On April 8 a representative of the Somali Patriotic Movement ( SPM ) said in Nairobi that ceasefire negotiations were to continue regardless of an incident that day when USC members clashed with forces of the SPM and of the Somali Salvation Democratic Front ( SSDF ) at Afgoye , 30 km west of Mogadishu , the capital . |
| 57 | She sensed that the barometer of their fraught relationship had plummeted to an all-time freeze and , at last , tormented beyond endurance , she stopped typing halfway through a schedule and went into his office . |
| 58 | ‘ Should n't think so for a minute , knowing him . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ I should n't think so for a moment , ’ said Rufus , whose speech grew more precise when he was drunk . |
| 60 | ‘ I should n't think so for a moment . ’ |