Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Norwegian parliament reassembles on Wednesday , and on Friday the Prime Minister , Gro Harlem Brundtland , and her cabinet will present their resignations , to forestall a vote of no confidence . |
| 2 | The German explanation for the invasion of Belgium and Holland on 10 May 1940 — that it had been necessary in order to forestall a breach of neutrality by the enemy — carried less conviction than it had done in the Scandinavian operation . |
| 3 | One of them , it contends , is the ability to communicate a sense of urgency to people who work for you without haranguing and without being unpleasant . |
| 4 | This barrier becomes intensely noticeable when a member of one species needs urgently to communicate a matter of life or death to a member of another . |
| 5 | A few moments later he raised his head , to catch a gasp of breath and then to mutter softly in her ear , ‘ There has n't been a day — or night — in the last four years when I have n't missed you . |
| 6 | This took us through Bedford , Northampton , Daventry and Leamington Spa to Solihull where we all managed to catch a couple of hours ‘ shut eye ’ before heading into Birmingham . |
| 7 | And it is there in his conducting of Debussy 's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune , which the English Wagnerian Reginald Goodall once singled out as conducting that managed by some unique alchemy simultaneously to catch a sense of fire and ice , sultry heat and marble calm . |
| 8 | She quoted him : on one occasion when the Princess had waved him away , pleading a cold , he had breathed back at her , ‘ It would be a privilege to catch a cold of yours . ’ |
| 9 | I wondered if David had got this evening to catch a bottle of wine |
| 10 | This magnificent insect , as well as being rare , frequents the tops of oak trees , rarely descending to the forest glades , so binoculars are normally required to catch a sight of it . |
| 11 | He leaned out , perilously askew , just to catch a sight of Edward 's white face at the bottom of the ladder . |
| 12 | It 's been a popular strategy ever since The Rolling Stones played the small marquee at the 1963 National Jazz Festival in Richmond — the event that subsequently mutated into Reading — and provoked scenes of hysteria as hundreds of excited youths abandoned the main arena and jostled to catch a whiff of this liberating new air , leaving a bewildered Acker Bilk tootling his way into the footnotes of history . |
| 13 | So he peered , leaning forward to catch a whiff of scent , listening to the man 's quiet muttering . |
| 14 | We used to catch a lot of fish and it was always in them days you used to catch the trout in the Summer and you used to dry them on the on the dykes and hang them on the line like you could see haddocks and that drying . |
| 15 | In the Firthview cafe , apparently the location of some awful and localised ground subsidence since it was named , because it would have to be at least a storey taller to catch a view of the water , I had a cup of coffee and a game of Space Invaders . |
| 16 | Their ancestors had scorned and derided Vincent and now they were rich from Van Gogh postcards and souvenirs bought by people like Skye , who only came to catch a whisper of his ghost . |
| 17 | History is all around , and if you want to catch a spot of culture during your holiday try to see Knossos , Phaestos and Gortys , three of the most important archaeological sites in Europe . |
| 18 | But before you go rushing off to the river to catch a netful of chub , bear in mind that I have said only that chub are easy to catch compared to most other species . |
| 19 | To the aficionado , angling is both peaceful and exhilarating , to the uninitiated , sitting on a river bank on which you are more likely to catch a score of gnats than one trout , seems a long-winded way of getting a fish dinner . |
| 20 | Bright new bonnets on show at the fair : Brett Fraser says that , for once , the London Motorfair is the place to catch a glimpse of the latest ideas from the world 's car makers |
| 21 | The waiting silence was broken by , ‘ I 'd say the train is leaving Carrick now , ’ and they all went to the fields behind the house to catch a glimpse of the train as it passed . |
| 22 | He was famous , people flocked to catch a glimpse of him , they stood for hours in the freezing cold in the hope that he would choose their hand to shake — for no better reason than an accident of birth . |
| 23 | She glanced towards the window to catch a glimpse of Mrs Hollidaye 's car but the windows , though clear glass , gave on to an enclosed garden with bare rose bushes poking up like black twigs through the slush . |
| 24 | Kylie fever has sent the temperature soaring and thousands camp out to catch a glimpse of Kylie when she appears as a guest on DJ Simon Mayo 's Radio One Roadshow . |
| 25 | Les Hipkiss , a sprightly 62-year-old from Birmingham , queued for hours to catch a glimpse of the diminutive star . |
| 26 | Immediately on the right of the entrance , be sure to look through the small opening to catch a glimpse of part of the Romanesque façade which disappeared from view following work on the construction of Trivulzio 's mausoleum/chapel in the early sixteenth-century . |
| 27 | He looked right whatever he wore , so handsome that girls stood up to catch a glimpse of him when he walked into a café . |
| 28 | Before going any farther , I suggest you go through the opening to the left of the Spanish Hall to catch a glimpse of the small garden called Na Baště , ‘ on the Bastion ’ , with its grand oval staircase leading to the entrance of the Spanish Hall and its neo-Classical pavilion by Plečnik 's follower , Rottmayer . |
| 29 | The last time this happened I just managed to catch a glimpse of his two black eyes , going down for the third time , before I landed him . |
| 30 | Sandison tried to catch a glimpse of her feet but found it difficult . |