Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankie tells the audience how the Producers had wanted him to make an entrance by sliding down a fireman 's pole ! |
| 2 | Teachers have to struggle to break down a pupil 's conceptions of what is ‘ beautiful ’ , ‘ lovely ’ and nice to watch in order to release the real potential . |
| 3 | Eating dinner , Trent watched Louis run his knife down a fish 's backbone , parting the flesh with the concentration and obsessively meticulous neatness of a surgeon . |
| 4 | SHOPPERS cashed in when a power cut shut down a supermarket 's electronic tills . |
| 5 | The next day the RUC tried to block a 4,000 strong Paisleyite protest march from the centre of Belfast , but the marchers broke through and rampaged through the centre of the city breaking shop windows , stoning the Catholic-owned International Hotel and going on to Sandy Row where they tried to burn down a bookie 's shop which employed Catholics . |
| 6 | Pupils were invited to join the poll , casting as many votes as they wished simply by writing down a teacher 's name again and again . |
| 7 | ‘ It is not the prerogative of the police to close down a coroner 's investigation . ’ |
| 8 | At the start of the filming we bring in a students ' orchestra and we rehearse for three days , six sessions in all . |
| 9 | They might have just threw in a bit er more from paper three . |
| 10 | We were perhaps selected by someone with a sense of humour who thought that we might be the right couple to bring in a Queen 's Speech which increases the penalties for mutiny in prisons . |
| 11 | If your employee is sick during the last eight weeks before leaving and you have paid SSP for more than three days you have to fill in a Leaver 's statement SSP(L) . |
| 12 | We had n't issued a certificate because the school or college had n't told SCOTVEC of the outcome of the module by filling in a Form NC6 . ’ |
| 13 | He was struck by the way in which Muni had depicted the suffering , the bewilderment , and the anger of a simple man , by the way in which the atmosphere and pressures of a strike-bound community had been created , and above all by the reality of the violence , which was a thing ‘ that shrieks along a man 's nerves and settles in his stomach ’ . |
| 14 | This should enable computers to give highly detailed information : how many people live within a radius of a certain point , for example , or how many live along a river 's flood plain . |
| 15 | When he was in Norfolk he had to fill in an alien 's registration form . |
| 16 | It is probably fair that venture capitalists have more say over a company 's affairs than a conventional bank lender with the comfort of a secured arrangement . |
| 17 | But I had never questioned the effect that jack plugs exert over a guitar 's sound , let alone done an actual listening test to prove or disprove the Johnson theory . |
| 18 | They propose to take away the courts ' most important sanction — the power to take over a union 's assets . |
| 19 | One way in which we can look over a writer 's shoulder , and observe the process of composition , is by examining alterations made both in manuscript , and in revised editions of a work . |
| 20 | In the punishment cells last week , Rudakov , who is the Political Officer , kicked over a man 's slop bucket and the water ran all over the floor . |
| 21 | She fumbled for the torch , and thumbed over the button with a chilly hand , and the cone of light spilled over a man 's body , face-down in the shallow water , glistening under the abrupt brightness in violent projections of black and white . |
| 22 | Penry walked slowly down the remaining stairs and crossed the room towards her , stumbling over a rug en route . |
| 23 | The sceptics at GM reckoned it could never work — the motor would overheat and no battery could store enough energy to turn over a car 's engine . |
| 24 | An advertising agency normally takes over a client 's advertising for a fee , or for a percentage of the amount of money the client spends on television time or space in newspapers , magazines or poster sites . |
| 25 | A businessman is threatening to sue over a bank 's advice |
| 26 | By day the alleys that ran into a scruffy hinterland were rat-hole rubbish traps but now they seemed romantic lanes where lovers might meet under the bracket lamps and as the sun departed , watch the moon ride over a Grimms ' fairy tale huddle of pinnacled rooftops . |
| 27 | He was a tourist peering over a painter 's shoulder as he scanned my unread stack of books . |
| 28 | His bulk , thin but long , was hard for them to get up their spiral stairs , so they left him on the sofa below , on the floor that lay over an ironmonger 's shop . |
| 29 | Coping strategies which are sometimes suggested , like making a mental agreement with yourself or even an actual arrangement with the other party , to stand over an arm 's length away and promise not to move from your spot , are sensible if the temperature really soars . |
| 30 | For example , disputes often arise over an adolescent 's room , the parent might say : ‘ I want you to keep your room clean and tidy . |