Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go in and sit down a sec . |
| 2 | If you can not get your shoes back on , bring along a pair of flip-flops or sandals that you can slip into and which wo n't aggravate your feet . |
| 3 | Twenty years ago liberal justices on the court laid down a series of laws against discriminatory employment practices . |
| 4 | And then you 've filled in a works situations |
| 5 | Today Oxford magistrates were told he had not told the authorities who was driving , or filled in a means test form . |
| 6 | The Cockney soap shot up the ratings after bringing in a series of controversial episodes , including rape , murder , gay love and suicide bids . |
| 7 | She snatched off a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and looked up at Maxim with myopic surprise . |
| 8 | ASUTRAMES drew up a series of demands in a 27-point petition addressed to the municipal government , The petition included the following Points : |
| 9 | Representatives of the Education Ministry and the ruling Democratic Liberal Party ( DLP ) immediately drew up a series of " campus stabilization measures " designed to improve security and restrict student political activity . |
| 10 | The plaintiff or petitioner drew up a series of charges for the defendant to answer and refute , but the burden of proof was on the plaintiff . |
| 11 | During the Thatcher years , James Hanson built up a £10bn business empire through a series of audacious takeovers and acquired a peerage in the process . |
| 12 | Carlos Palenque , a mestizo who built up a media empire by getting poor Indians to telephone their complaints to his radio and television shows , may win quite a few votes in the capital . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , SNI , armed with its new point-of-sale alliance with Sun ( UX No 436 ) , has picked up a $10m contract with US supermarket chain Kash n ’ Karry Food Stores . |
| 14 | Still most of them will have picked up a bob or two out of their transfers to Leeds . |
| 15 | Thus there build up a series of steps with sharp , cliff-like fronts ( Plate 10 ) . |
| 16 | Ace grinned , and drew out a pair of thin doughy wedges from the deep pockets of her duster coat . |
| 17 | Theodore Barber of Medfield State Hospital in Massachusetts has carried out a series of experiments which suggest that there is nothing a hypnotised subject will do that a motivated non-hypnotised person will not do as well . |
| 18 | Kaimann has carried out a series of randomizing experiments , based on a file of 48 950 records . |
| 19 | Previously the Central Bank had carried out a series of devaluations of the new cruzado , which on its introduction in January 1989 had exchanged at near equity with the United States dollar . |
| 20 | Ranjan Wijeratne , the Plantations Minister and Minister of State for Defence , claimed on July 26 that the LTTE had recently carried out a series of attacks on Sinhalese villages . |
| 21 | The ULFA , a Maoist group which had risen to prominence in 1990 , controlled large tracts of upper Assam and had carried out a series of assassinations , kidnappings and bomb attacks . |
| 22 | Bomb disposal experts have carried out a series of controlled explosions on a store of Second World War weapons and ammunition . |
| 23 | Police believe he 's the so-called ’ Fishermead rapist ’ , who 's carried out a series of attacks on the Fishermead estate . |
| 24 | Police are stepping up their hunt for a man who 's carried out a series of sexual attacks on women in the last seven months . |
| 25 | Police belive he 's the so-called Fishermead rapist , who 's carried out a series of attacks on and around the Fishermead Estate . |
| 26 | He told me later that he had only been a guard for fifteen months , also that the normal takings on this section of the line were approximately £10 , so he was only too pleased to work out a 26% discount for a group booking that realised BR £77.35 from our party . |
| 27 | ‘ Spoken like a true woman , ’ said Dr Neil , staring at the board , empty save for a few pieces clustered round a pair of kings in one corner . |
| 28 | MICKEY ROURKE 'S wife CARRIE OTIS has turned down a £500,000 cosmetics deal so she can spend more time with her hubby … |
| 29 | WIMBLEDON have turned down a £1.6million bid by Southampton for striker Dean Holdsworth . |
| 30 | Reda Adam , ten , and her father , a cycle repairman in Ismailia , also turned down a £25,000 reward from the owner , an Australian tourist . |