Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 'How about repeating that line , like a chorus … |
2 | Peel potatoes , place in a pan with sufficient water to cover , bring to the boil then simmer for abut 3 mins , until tender . |
3 | You see what I mean about feeling sorry for him ? |
4 | Those differences in income with age which remain after considering each type of household separately can mainly be explained in terms of two factors . |
5 | It is clear that the Committee " s project of combating the " diseased " majority cultures and sustaining a healthy sense of Englishness by mobilizing literature in education , has little place for serving industrial needs . |
6 | I want for to do that |
7 | We come here to what seems to me to be the central dilemma in second language pedagogy : the conditions appropriate for acquiring communicative resources are different from the conditions of their use . |
8 | ‘ within the hearing or sight of a person ’ This can be proved by observing the reactions of passers-by or persons to whom the insults etc. were directed , e.g. ‘ I saw two old ladies hurry past looking disgusted and saying , ‘ You ought to be locked up ’ ' . |
9 | Roughly chop the potatoes and cook in boiling salted water for 10 to 15 min or until soft . |
10 | Cook in boiling salted water until tender , about 12 min . |
11 | Cook in boiling salted water for 10 min , or until tender . |
12 | There s concern from backbenchers that the Government did n't wait for todays report before making last weeks announcement . |
13 | For the genealogist , however , the principal value of the returns lies in the help they provide in tracing elusive ancestors . |
14 | Certain daily newspapers delight in exposing wasteful practices in governmental departments , quasi-governmental agencies and soon . |
15 | You should have been a guerrilla leader , Sara , you delight in winning small skirmishes . " |
16 | We got about six sentences too deep in our conversation for her to institute personal questions about my background , without appearing offensive ( she had to treat me as a person now and not a peon ) , even for Asians who delight in asking pertinent questions as to age , income , etc. , unthinkable for more backward Europeans . |
17 | Wild sows appear to be aware of this danger , and often hesitate before lowering each foot to the group . |
18 | Elements of the new approach include looking at the cost of environmental degradation of an area in terms of : its effect on house prices ; the cost of alternative methods of transport ; the value local people place on maintaining environmental features intact ; and an assessment of the cost of replacement , for example moving a colony of badgers . |
19 | We build at getting better things , where if we do n't actually watch it , we build at getting worse at things . |
20 | We build at getting better things , where if we do n't actually watch it , we build at getting worse at things . |
21 | And you involve by making sure you draw the required visible response from the audience . |
22 | If yu want fe overstand dis open wide |
23 | Moreover , many clostridia generate H 2 from pyruvate via ferredoxin , whereas enterobacteria evolve the gas through cleavage of pyruvate by puruvate formate lyase . |
24 | Your third option is to make up what you want by adding small decorative mouldings to plain stock , gluing and pinning them on as appropriate to create the cross-section you want . |
25 | She says they fly by sprinkling magic dust on their antlers . |
26 | I would have thought that support for marketing new ideas in the difficult early stages is an excellent investment of taxpayers ’ money . |
27 | Amdahl Tuxedo Transaction Manager 4.2 , based on the Unix System Laboratories Inc product , offers support for migrating some transaction processing applications to UTS from IBM Corp MVS systems while maintaining links to corporate databases in the MVS/CICS environment . |
28 | If this is the justification we seek for abandoning medical sex classification and resorting to a legal method , then it can not defend itself from reproach . |
29 | Erm she said about , you know , the thickness or the bulging er the information and worry about giving personal details and , and that was good , that was fine . |
30 | Orange Free State have won South Africa 's Nissan Shield limited-overs title after beating Eastern Province by four wickets . |