Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb base] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Eventually they can turn professional if they 're good enough and earn a fair bob or two . |
| 2 | As a preliminary to the ceremony , the Northern Ireland Royal Marine Band will march through Middlesbrough at 2pm and give a performance on the Russell Street boulevard . |
| 3 | But , Prof Richard De La Rue , of the university 's department of electronics and electrical engineering , and his team hope to go 20 times better and develop a cable which will transmit ten billion pulses , or two million simultaneous telephone calls . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , come inside and have a cup of tea , ’ she said , and showed me into the front room of the house . |
| 5 | ‘ Come inside and have a cup of tea , ’ suggested Jenny . |
| 6 | Bleeding from the nose is quite common in pregnancy ; pinch the nose gently and hold a cold , wet handkerchief to it . |
| 7 | Then check it is clear below and attempt a straight stall , followed by a few stalls in very gentle turns . |
| 8 | Join The Women 's Press Bookclub as an annual member on the coupon below and receive a free copy of Not A Man To Match Her : A Feminist View of Britain 's First Woman Prime Minister by Wendy Webster ( The Women 's Press , £6.95 ) . |
| 9 | Her camp confirms the lengths to which Kylie is prepared to go to maintain the environment-friendly campaign and reveals she REFUSES to handle everyday plastics , because they can not be broken down naturally and pose a threat to the habitat . |
| 10 | The Conservatives may have tried to go it alone and form a minority government , but some kind of party-splitting coalition government could well have been more likely . |
| 11 | His card message system gave him the freedom to go out alone and hail a taxi , showing the driver the appropriate card for the place he wanted to visit . |
| 12 | One woman whose mother was coming to live with her and her husband solved her problem by saying quite firmly beforehand , ‘ Now Tom and I like to eat supper alone and have a couple of hours ’ quiet talk together in the evening before we settle down to watch television , Mother . |
| 13 | The patient should also be seen alone and have a careful history and physical examination taken . |
| 14 | I would like the article to come from you personally and include a short biographical note at the end . |
| 15 | ‘ Should we pop out for an hour or so and take a late breakfast ? ’ |
| 16 | We can stop every mile or so and toss a coin . ’ |
| 17 | From the parking area above , you can easily walk down at either end of the crag , but it 's much more fun to follow the path leftwards and make a free 25 metres abseil through the blow-hole in the roof of the enormous cave of Baume Percée . |
| 18 | Imagine c is the angle between the hands of a small wristwatch at 3 o'clock and angle a is the angle between the hands of a large clock at the same time . |
| 19 | Eat slightly less and exercise a little more ; aim to bring it back to normal within a week or two . |
| 20 | Mr Clarke 's remarks followed a call by John Major for a public campaign against lawlessness in which he said the time had come to ‘ understand a little less and condemn a little more ’ . |
| 21 | Because of the slimness of their bodies it means a shoal of bream , particularly when resting between feeding times , can pack quite tightly together and become a much smaller target than they would present if rotundly shaped . |
| 22 | If only she could fit the jigsaw together and get a clear picture of this man who so intrigued her . |
| 23 | To assemble the flowers , secure several white petals together and stick a tiny ball of yellow coloured fondant on top . |
| 24 | get it together and invent a pill for men . |
| 25 | I would only add that although the behaviour of some of our major construction companies is a little short of criminal in some cases , no amount of legislation will change things unless subcontractors are prepared to band together and take a much firmer stance against some of their tactics ( they could start by employing members of the Institute perhaps ) . |
| 26 | Cream 1 oz margarine and 1 oz sugar together and line a round of fireproof dish . |
| 27 | I 've always thought that you get a bunch of songs together and if they 're good songs , you 're really lucky and if they all fit together and make a great album you 're really , really lucky . |
| 28 | He told friends : ‘ I hope we can get back together and make a fresh start . ’ |
| 29 | Yeah , oh we erm , bits of paper with patterns on them , like stain glass windows and the colouring , we colour them in and we stick them together and make a lantern |
| 30 | However the new department will pull all this together and provide a public front , hopefully making it more accessible to new initiatives , ’ said Hearn . |