Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some children were sent to widowed grandmothers to live with them for company , or just sleep a few nights , like the seaman 's daughter on the Western Isles who , when all the men were away at the fishing , ‘ used to sleep with granny … bringing the water from the well and bringing in the peat , tidying up the floor and singing songs , for granny she was a very musical lady , yes she was . ’ |
| 2 | The contrast painted between the intense , vibrant , imaginative life of the child outside school ( where at the end of the day the eight-year-old collapses into deep sleep a few seconds after rushing round ‘ being a lorry ’ ) and the drab , pointless monotony of his classes is as striking as it is disturbing . |
| 3 | The blue-rinsed grandmother from Iowa — ‘ just passing through Lunnun to catch a few shows ’ ( like anglers collect trout ) — I had drawn as a dancing partner clapped louder than anybody . |
| 4 | In order to catch a few babies , trappers will frequently kill whole families and the orphan chimps often die in transit . |
| 5 | Robert tried to marshal a few facts about twelfth-century Iran . |
| 6 | An exercise that is always valuable , is to rewrite a few articles that you have read . |
| 7 | As I pointed out in the original review , this causes a few problems like the inability to switch players . |
| 8 | In the last phase of the shot the effect of impact causes a few cycles of vibration at a frequency of about 30 Hz . |
| 9 | Oh shit you 've won a thousand pounds |
| 10 | Now , I 've won a thousand pounds in the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | Have I won a thousand pounds ? |
| 12 | Has anyone rung up and told me I 've won a million pounds ? |
| 13 | Since then , Ireland have not won a Five Nations match and their best result was a 21–21 draw with Wales at Cardiff in 1991 . |
| 14 | Computer Sciences Corp has won a multi-year facilities management contract from Sun Microsystems Inc that is expected to generate $27m a year : under the agreement , Sun will temporarily transfer all its mainframe data centre activities in Milpitas , California to a Computer Sciences data centre in San Diego , enabling Sun to convert its mainframe systems , which oversee its worldwide manufacturing operations , to a client-server environment , with help from Computer Sciences , and the El Segundo company will run Sun 's day-to-day operations , supporting applications maintenance for its Manufacturing Resource Planning software , while the client-server system is developed and installed . |
| 15 | If he gave up now it would be like walking a hundred miles and then refusing to take the very last single step that would complete the journey . |
| 16 | If possible , either the hall porter or receptionist will escort the guests to their room offering to carry any hand luggage and walking a few steps ahead to open any doors . |
| 17 | Andrew was always with her , walking a few steps out of her reach . |
| 18 | ‘ Put it this way , I was approached a few months ago by a couple of guys in one of my clubs who said that they wanted to see the gaffer . |
| 19 | But although Wordsworth contributed a few lines , he quickly realized that attempts at collaboration were once again bound to fail : ‘ … |
| 20 | It also provided a few snippets of absurd press . |
| 21 | In the near future I intend to expand this unholy alliance into a much larger tank and to try a few experiments with the set-up and some new species which I 'll no doubt relate if they 're successful . |
| 22 | Based on the Teesside Development Corporation 's ‘ renaissance ’ project along the river banks and old docklands , the museum is expected to attract a million visitors a year from its opening in 1995 . |
| 23 | Alcatel Network Systems UK Ltd says it is launching a mobile communications system for UK freight services to link vehicles via satellite to their home base using its Euteltracs mobile system which provides two-way text communications between a mobile unit and its base , and position tracking and group messaging ; the service is similar to electronic mail and airtime costs are similar to cellular phone costs ; a mobile kit comprising antenna , the communications unit and keyboard should sell for £4,000 ; the system uses Qualcomm Inc 's technology . |
| 24 | He was also able to report that under the new chief executive , David Michels , the group had regained control of its runaway balance sheet position by selling its Ashbourne nursing home division , launching a well-received rights issue and restructuring the banking arrangements with a considerable reduction in the number of banks . |
| 25 | Recently my own son was attacked a few yards from Princes Street . |
| 26 | things are looking clearer now than they did you know a few weeks ago . |
| 27 | I still do n't know a few ideas though |
| 28 | We still grow some of the varieties listed a hundred years ago many of which had already been improved by the 1890s , some favourites like ‘ White Lisbon ’ spring onions and ‘ Scarlet Globe ’ and ‘ French Breakfast ’ radishes were also established . |
| 29 | In an address to Young Unionists , the Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP slammed SDLP and Eire politicians who claimed it cost a million pounds each day to secure the border . |
| 30 | One mechanical method of generating a range of switching angles is to use a fine resolution optical encoder producing several position pulses per step , but this is prohibitively expensive for small step.angle motors ; a 200 steps per revolution motor would need a 1600 counts per revolution encoder to give a choice of 8 switching angles . |