Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I said some time ago that there was a mile to go and we had to go half a mile each , and the Community went more than its half a mile . |
| 2 | but it 's not though , it 's not , it 's her fault for being so bloody stupid and not telling us A , what we 're supposed to be doing and B , the fact that I was not having any lunch to go half an hour , what do you mean ? |
| 3 | ‘ That typewriter used to go half the night . |
| 4 | One morning he woke up to discover the entire ‘ ARCHITECTURE ’ section stacked so high around his desk he had to wait half the day before pupils managed to free him . |
| 5 | and we still have to wait half an hour ! |
| 6 | At meetings of the European Parliament 's Human Rights Committee ( at which even the French Communists stayed silent ) , Newens compared Ceauşescu 's plan to demolish half the villages in Romania and to relocate millions of people into standardized concrete blocks with the effects of redevelopment around Kings Cross on his own constituents . |
| 7 | I did manage to lose half a stone ( 7lb/3kg ) , but I was so hungry all the time that I would not keep the diet up for longer than a month . |
| 8 | Verdun was to lose half a foot in the pits and use the £300 compensation to buy an upright piano ( although he could not play it ) . |
| 9 | Goal for weight change To lose half a pound ( 0.25 kg ) of fat . |
| 10 | ( The following week the goal is again to lose half a pound of fat ( 0.25 kg ) , so she would hope on Week 2 to be below her starting weight by at least 1 lb ( 0.5 kg ) on most days ) . |
| 11 | It is very easy to lose half a letter of the headline , or a key element of the illustration , unless both typographer and art director are very careful ; and it is very easy , too , to find you have produced two separate , incomplete pages of advertising with no real link between them . |
| 12 | Unless a really short-field ( e.g. a precautionary ) landing is required , the manual recommends using only 45 ° , and to confirm this a panel warning light illuminates once that setting has been exceeded . |
| 13 | Shall lure it back to cancel half a line , |
| 14 | Shall lure it back to cancel half a line |
| 15 | To combat this the regulations stipulated that compensation would be paid in full to landowners , including any lost profit , should their land be taken away from them . |
| 16 | To try to combat this the police have organised an educational play warning of the dangers of talking to strangers . |
| 17 | To like this a lot you probably need to be able to handle silent movies — though dialogue suddenly breaks out in the final scene , powerfully underlining the film 's more serious side . |
| 18 | The wife , if she so wishes , will be able to claim half the allowance as of right . |
| 19 | . Senior Buckingham Palace aid confirmed last night the Duchess is entitled to claim half the sum now contained in that fund . |
| 20 | In order to accommodate this the basement is now given over to office space while the ground floor continues to carry monographs and catalogues of Western art . |
| 21 | Now some of them used to find that a bit irksome . |
| 22 | NACAB increasingly deals with clients who have run up large bills on their credit cards only to find that the repayments crippling . |
| 23 | NACAB increasingly deals with clients who have run up large bills on their credit cards only to find that the repayments crippling . |
| 24 | I remember ghastly evenings when we sat round willing him to write half a line or finish a stanza and he could n't do it , it would n't come out . |
| 25 | The seller offered to meet half the cost of repairing the dynamo . |
| 26 | Oh it was quite useful to find Half a Sixpence . |
| 27 | And — even assuming he could persuade her to drink it — was n't it , well , out of the ordinary to find half a litre of bleach in someone 's stomach ? |
| 28 | As an extension to its offer to provide half the cost of a microcomputer in every school , the department will back Prestel , British Telecom 's viewdata service , as a medium for carrying educational software . |
| 29 | A total of £3,000 was needed and the player offered to provide half the amount if Tottenham would supply the other half , which they proceeded to do . |
| 30 | To obtain this the lessor 's title must be strictly investigated and proved . |