Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wants to go back to the base camp before we push on towards Finland . |
| 2 | What we concentrate on in Britain , is earth observation . |
| 3 | And how pathetically ironic that a bunch of Americans , who normally carp on about freedom of speech and the First Amendment , resort to crushing records which contain perfectly innocent torch songs when they defend to the hilt the right of misogynist swine like 2 Live Crew to peddle their filth with impunity . |
| 4 | Invert on to wire rack and cool completely . |
| 5 | They drag on from generation to generation and emigration to Britain makes very little difference . |
| 6 | I let Nat have my dogs and sit in with Tony . |
| 7 | ‘ The Mediterranean peoples rarely sit down to dinner much before nine . ’ |
| 8 | He offers no explanation , as they sit down to dinner , and Anne and Millie talk about other things . |
| 9 | When world leaders sit down to dinner at home they prefer simple fare , according to the people who cook for them . |
| 10 | I feed her and get her washed and undressed and ready for bed and then these two sit down to tea . |
| 11 | After the working day they sit down to supper and the master sets the tasks for the morrow : Quoth Maister — Lads , work hard I pray , Cloth mun be peark 'd next market-day , And Tom mun go tomorn to t'spinners , And Will mun seek about for t'swingers ; And Jack tomorn , by time be rising , And go t'sizing mill for sizing , And get your web and warping done That ye may get it into loom . |
| 12 | They compose themselves as the laibon appears and suggests we sit down for tea . |
| 13 | Fairfax and Claudia sit down on camp chairs . |
| 14 | Sit down on daddy 's lap . |
| 15 | I sit down with Paul Franklin every now and then and we swap licks — just basically show each other what we know . |
| 16 | The new arrangements should provide more occasions when mental health workers sit down with individuals to discuss their care in a structured way . |
| 17 | When you sit down with Tony , punch in your code word , he 'll punch in his , and you 'll retrieve the data we loaded in . |
| 18 | Can you two go and sit down with daddy please cos this is getting silly . |
| 19 | Go and sit down with daddy please . |
| 20 | NIGEL MANSELL 'S old boss Frank Williams will be waiting on the sidelines today as motor sport 's top brass sit down in Paris to find a way of saving next year 's Grand Prix calendar and prevent his Williams team from paying a massive fine . |
| 21 | Two o'clock — I then sit down in front of the television with a pen and piece of paper and watch the schools programme which I like because you can have a rest from writing and reading . |
| 22 | I wait until my husband 's doing the late shift , and I wait until the children have gone to bed , and I sit down in front of the television . |
| 23 | if you go into the room sit down in front of the typewriter and the exam begins , and you do it you could pass easy , well I 've done it and I 've passed ! |
| 24 | Hippies sit down round camp fires and smoke nasty substances . |
| 25 | The policemen push down on Tepilit 's shoulders as the judge takes his seat to indicate that he , too , should sit . |
| 26 | Wealden ironmasters , and even more so their men , are elusive figures , but a Wadhurst miller , taxed at £4 on land , looks much like John Barharn of Woodlands and Butts who in 1521 purchased Brooklands forge along with Bartley Mill . |
| 27 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 28 | CLAMP DOWN ON CAR COSTS |
| 29 | This is a useful aid to accurate manual focusing : zoom in to telephoto , set the focus , and then zoom back out to frame the shot the way you want it . |
| 30 | According to the book of legends you have just shown us , Arthur came here to drink from the Grail , whilst one of his knights , Sir Bedivere , reputedly took Excalibur down to Narepool which is only three miles from Glastonbury . |