Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The sensor will react instantaneously to body heat and bring on a light outside your home whenever anyone approaches .
2 At half time you can change your tactics and bring on a substitute .
3 Sometimes it is possible to decide what particular activities bring on an attack of giddiness .
4 Sit down a minute , ’ said Simon .
5 Aggie drew in a long breath , bowed her head slightly and said , ‘ Aye , I know you did , love ; but come and sit down a minute . ’
6 Si sit down a minute love
7 Sit down a minute .
8 That 's it , now sit down a minute !
9 Sit down a minute
10 Sit down a minute .
11 Go in and sit down a sec .
12 However , the use of pig fat in the enfleurage process will be off-putting to the vegetarian who may have to forgo the pleasures of jasmine and tuberose or track down a supplier of the even more elusive vegetable oil absolutes .
13 We have as many lovely things here as on the Mountain of Butterflies but we lack only a prophet and the eyes and emotions to see them .
14 If you can not get your shoes back on , bring along a pair of flip-flops or sandals that you can slip into and which wo n't aggravate your feet .
15 Madeleine , however , had insisted he bring along a girl to make up a foursome and Primrose was the only girl available at the last minute .
16 Stripes can go a bit fuzzy , too , and most people bring along a selection of clothes .
17 Better still , bring along a coach from your parish .
18 Or more seriously bring along a book on figure drawing to help you and do n't be afraid to hold a pencil at arm 's length to measure proportions .
19 The source of meaningfulness of these ideas lies in the logical relationships that bind together a cluster of basic ideas into a coherent pattern Thus if the idea of numerical diversity presupposes the possibility of irreducible relations , the idea of irreducible relations , in its turn , presupposes the possibility of an objective order , and the idea of an objective order ( I shall argue ) is unintelligible without the idea of a plurality of points of view occupied by different selves .
20 6 Bind together a group of cinnamon sticks with Christmas ribbon and secure with a pin .
21 I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature .
22 We have n't got er I mean obviously a lot of the staff that are on these temporary contracts are from the adult team .
23 Well , it 's something er I mean obviously a lot of people like the idea of going over to the Swindon Oasis , now er we 've had at the back of our minds , if it was at all possible to er put something similar at Didcot , obviously nothing as grand as the Oasis , but something quite similar , and obviously they would come to Didcot and not bother to go over to Swindon .
24 Note that the target struck by the cauldron suffers a strength 5 hit , while remaining targets suffer only a strength 3 hit .
25 Flat Top , Mac and Taff tear down an alley .
26 That is another way of saying he wants his team to win , because they remain only a point clear , although after tonight they will still have a match in hand .
27 Lay down a number of clubs , say four as shown ( photo above ) , at different intervals on the practice green ( first make sure you are allowed to chip onto the practice green ) .
28 Mummy would have Mrs Thing bring in a trolley with cakes and sandwiches and tell her to play the piano for the Guests .
29 What I 'm , what I 'm saying is if , if you want to really stir people up , bring in a procedure within telling them what you 're doing , and then imple implement it at a later date and people will say , this is not quality .
30 We may decide let's be passive and move to battle decide is actually an important issue and wan na be aggressive and they actually bring in a relationship so important .
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