Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] in a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Perhaps we 'll keel over in a moment . ’ |
| 32 | It 's not the sort of thing you can dash off in a couple of months . |
| 33 | Once the bus stopped , however , he was immediately up and out , using the ten minutes available to sketch in the ingredients of a scene which he would later work up in a hotel room . |
| 34 | I can not sum up in a few sentences what will be the substance itself of my book . |
| 35 | For no apparent reason it was hanging on my head like lank seaweed ; I could n't make it puff out in a way that hid my ears properly . |
| 36 | There are many , priests too , who would wipe out in a day all the familiar things about Mother Church that endear her to us all , even the precepts and practices that are the reason she has survived for all these nineteen hundred years . |
| 37 | You 're telling me you wan na run around in a pair of shorts |
| 38 | ‘ Because I ca n't run round in a car with English number plates , ’ she explained . |
| 39 | This may not seem important , but small irritations can build up in a Home and become real barriers to good communication . |
| 40 | I 'd sooner wind up in a debtors ’ prison ! ’ |
| 41 | You could fit in in a number of ways . |
| 42 | Slowly she discovered tricks of the trade such as weighting her hems so that they did n't blow up in a breeze and she gradually acquired a coterie of designers , including Catherine Walker , David Sassoon and Victor Edelstein , whom she now relies upon . |
| 43 | ‘ There are too many people around who think it 's easy to make sandwiches and will set up in a garden shed , almost , ’ said Jim Winship , director of the British Sandwich Association . |
| 44 | Businessmen should not set up in a market where they will be powerless to enforce their credit terms . |
| 45 | He could see the longer teeth at the sides of her mouth and the folds of wet black skin that at any moment would draw back in a threatening snarl . |
| 46 | To avoid potential disputes the parties should set out in a letter , preferably attached to the sale agreement , any specific adjustments that will need to be made for the purpose of the completion statement . |
| 47 | Ms Lamont , who will take over as chairwoman in March , will set out in a speech to the group its objectives for the 1990s and urge female supporters to continue the fight to shape the party 's agenda to reflect their concerns . |
| 48 | Sometimes he would lay out in a row the seven or eight letters from the seven or eight men who he would most like to meet and talk to when he got to heaven . |
| 49 | If we try to relate the stratigraphical column , in all its fantastic detail , to these general theories , we will inevitably soon bog down in a welter of information . |
| 50 | I very much regret that both the Syrians and the Lebanese stayed away from the multilaterals and that , although present , the Palestinians did not join in in a positive way . |
| 51 | It 's just over 3,300 metres high , so that the top part is snow-covered for much of the year , and the fortunate Sicilians can ride up in a cable car from the warmth of the lower slopes to ski there . |
| 52 | Prototype materials were tried out in these schools with the help of field curriculum workers ( mobile teacher trainers whose story we shall take up in a later chapter ) and later refined and distributed in final form to a further eight hundred schools with a similar scale of supervision , in the hope that these would serve as a nucleus in each state for further dissemination to other schools . |
| 53 | Tell you who I might phone up in a minute |
| 54 | you 're gon na have to come out cos I 'm gon na hoover up in a minute |
| 55 | When you do speak to your target people , it is important to emphasize that all you want is the person 's opinion and that you will phone back in a couple of weeks to find out what they think . |
| 56 | On the reverse Jarrett had written : I 'll call back in a couple of hours . |
| 57 | And I also have a bunch of instruments that I might try out in a song ; you get to know what each one will do , but you still have to try two or three to see which has the best voice for the tune . ’ |
| 58 | Angie and I would ride around in a scarlet limo with a television in the back and a bar and a huge 20 stone black guy as our bodyguard in the front . |
| 59 | He told me he was n't planning to see Mum straightaway but that he 'd call round in a couple of days to comfort her . |
| 60 | Rufus had always heard that nothing can go on in a village without the gossips knowing . |