Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man with skin like an old passion fruit lay asleep under a butterwood tree , a machete in his loosed grip . |
| 2 | Send also any balance NI contributions or tax due with a payslip , to the Inland Revenue Accounts Office . |
| 3 | Right I 'm not , not having those pennies , change that for a ten . |
| 4 | half a bottle all over his I mean that with a any way , but all over his fucking private parts shave them |
| 5 | Viccei lay low in a safe house in Hampstead , north London , for one month before being caught by the Flying Squad . |
| 6 | Wash with unperfumed soap , pat dry with a soft towel then apply a little unperfumed talc . |
| 7 | The governments of nuclear-armed countries rightly perceive this as a threat to their defence strategies and decide to send all the stones back to Mars . |
| 8 | I sit high on a table with a white paper sheet on it . |
| 9 | They have to the Atari , right you load this in a word processing in a path games are venture and the sound is much better than Amiga on the Amiga er the graphics are better on the Amiga and but the Atari ST is slightly easier to program . |
| 10 | The surface will initially be scraped by a small bulldozer , and the volunteers will then bring in the foundations , consisting of highway planings , on dumpers , and lay this to a depth of about 8 inches . |
| 11 | But the non-aligned states remain interested in a demilitarisation of the Mediterranean . |
| 12 | Publishers frequently cite this as a reason for not really getting behind the sale , and putting better titles into it . |
| 13 | Er the position of the county council is that we remain unconvinced of a need for such a policy . |
| 14 | ‘ You referred earlier to the death of Ramsey Everett and there you have my meaning , for the exact circumstances of his death remain elusive in a truly Tyrrellian fashion . ’ |
| 15 | Combine this with a seat at the water 's edge and you have a lovely place to sit and admire the distant views and your new-look garden . |
| 16 | Combine this with a padded tongue and further support around the lower foot area and you end up with a darn comfy shoe . |
| 17 | Combine this with a lesson with Jennie Loriston-Clarke , Britain 's top dressage rider , and it surely becomes any aspiring dressage rider 's dream come true . |
| 18 | Grain surpluses pile up in disused hangars , while pesticide and machinery sales- ’ men grow rich on a tide of public subsidies . |
| 19 | Spread 10 small crackers with the mixture and top each with a cooked peeled prawn and sprinkle with a few alfalfa sprouts . |
| 20 | Top each with a smaller green ball for the head . |
| 21 | A cruel generalisation , but probably justified , would be to suggest that the large majority of curricula in Africa are designed for an ideal situation — namely a uniform six-year-old entry , relatively homogeneous in age and culture , equal in sex and of average size ( say 30–45 in a class ) who attend regularly , repeat seldom and complete their primary course . |
| 22 | Very often you will be disappointed — ‘ … you want that for a seven year old car . |
| 23 | Ooh he want , he want that for a test ? |
| 24 | They differ in the ways in which they approach the economy along three dimensions and emphasize each to a different extent : |
| 25 | We want some for a little jacket mum |
| 26 | I suggest this as a purely private exercise . |
| 27 | Returning to Gorer 's work , this situation adds point to the feeling among most of his respondents that give-and-take , understanding and discussion , mutual trust and help etc. rank high in a happy marriage . |
| 28 | Program this on a computer with which you are familiar . |
| 29 | Fly high on a wing and a prayer : Simon Calder gives 10 commandments for making the most of US unlimited airpasses |
| 30 | I say this with a heavy heart . |