Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is no question of us condemning a referee here . |
| 2 | The effect was to suggest that what mattered most was the urgent need to communicate a message rather than the need to construct a polished work of musical art . |
| 3 | Preventive vaccines are introduced into an immunologically naive system , whereas therapeutic vaccines encounter a system already immunologically primed . |
| 4 | They took on and beat a side currently leading London Division II South — a league above Alton . |
| 5 | If she 's er if she 's sorted a village out , that 'll be great |
| 6 | Barratt makes a helpless gesture , as if trying to catch a word out of the air . |
| 7 | After a photographic session near the Palace Gates I was just about at the end of my tether and was thankful to catch a taxi back to Liverpool Street Station and home . |
| 8 | He was attacked and robbed while waiting to catch a taxi home from a dance . |
| 9 | He was about to catch a taxi home from Swindon town centre at just after midnight , when he stopped at public toilets . |
| 10 | Had they seen Saturday 's encounter , the Kiwis might have been tempted to catch a plane home . |
| 11 | It appears he waited and waited to pluck up courage to catch a plane home . |
| 12 | Next morning over breakfast I decide to go back into Þingeyri to catch a plane back to Ísafjöđ3ur in the hope that I can get a boat or bus from there . |
| 13 | Next day I am taken to Höfn to catch a plane back to Reykjavik , leaving the others to continue to Mÿvatn and the north . |
| 14 | They referred to him as ‘ David ’ and emphasised that he had to catch a plane back to London at midnight . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm going to catch a boat back to the mainland and I 'll be in my hotel where you can call me when you 've got a clean shirt for me . ’ |
| 16 | He took Adam on to Sudbury for him to catch a train there and at that point they parted . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose you 've got to catch a train back to Brighton now ? ’ he 'd say hopefully . |
| 18 | At Clapham Junction , he alighted from the train and crossed by the footbridge to the platform from which to catch a train back . |
| 19 | In Times Square an off-duty law enforcement officer felt a knife against his throat as he went to catch a train home at 11.15pm . |
| 20 | Either way it meant a walk to Snodland or Cuxton to catch a train so walking that extra was no trouble . |
| 21 | Does TNC compose a solution too prematurely ? |
| 22 | On paper it has the price , performance and specification to worry a car as good as the Vauxhall Carlton GSi 3000 24v . |
| 23 | Animals obey orders , the guard-dog does its duty , but as we saw in Chapter 5 , such attributions involve a language-game only reminiscent of the human paradigm . |
| 24 | ( You can drink the milk yourself if you are breast-feeding a baby under one year old . ) |
| 25 | I 'm going to pinch a leek now . |
| 26 | Fortunately , with weight shift , moving forwards causes a nose-up rather than a nose-down effect so that at least it does not accentuate the pitching movement and make the sensation worse . |
| 27 | This causes a reaction even after they have been entangled for the rabbits are inclined to bite at the net if they are left within it for too long . |
| 28 | Design is about the way a product not only looks , but also functions , and for anybody in manufacturing industry or retailing to say they do n't take an interest in it would be perfectly ludicrous , because at the end of the day it is design that causes a product either to be successful or unsuccessful . |
| 29 | The beginnings of a smile lurked deep in his eyes , setting Isabel 's heart racing when she ventured a glance up at him . |
| 30 | It was disclosed a week ago that the Frenchman Laurent Fignon had failed a test after a race in The Netherlands last month . |