Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get up after a bit and stick the stuff back in my pockets and start walking the way I came in . |
| 2 | If after a bite or sting the conscious level is impaired or if swelling is severe and rapid especially if it affects the mouth and throat or if breathing becomes difficult . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , a three-year-old boy , Hafeez Mahmood , has died after a hit and run accident at Smethwick in the West Midlands . |
| 4 | Remember to stretch while the muscles are still warm from working or directly after a bath and hold each position statically for at least 15 seconds . |
| 5 | Debieux was on remand after a smash and grab raid on a petrol station , and a high-speed chase in a stolen car . |
| 6 | I like it better when I 'm sent to look after a baby or play with a kid like Mike . |
| 7 | If the new system does offer real advantages then peer-group pressure might take over after a time and accelerate the change-over . |
| 8 | The pointer is automatically updated following a read or write operation . |
| 9 | The pointer is automatically updated following a read or write operation . |
| 10 | ‘ I was thinking if we could stop his cows from getting out of a field or save his hayricks when they were on fire , ’ said Heather , who loved reading stories and was always having make-believe adventures , with herself as the heroine . |
| 11 | You can remove poor Flora from that sink of a school and send her to some nice nuns . ’ |
| 12 | Equally you could follow the idea of a sample and knit each diamond in a different colour — a good way of using up those oddments ! |
| 13 | A PROUD mother told last night of her joy when she was handed her new-born baby boy only weeks after she had been the victim of a hit and run accident . |
| 14 | That would have been sufficient to deprive John Major of a majority and bring down his government . |
| 15 | The course would be a total entity in its own right , and not a subsidiary subject taken for one term by full-time students during the second year of a degree or graduate equivalent course in general musicianship . |
| 16 | Do it in front of a window or take the shade from a table-lamp if necessary . |
| 17 | A successful conclusion to this will enable the railway to obtain a Light Railway Order and extend services to Nordon , west of Corfe Castle where the foundations of a park and ride facility are beginning to appear . |
| 18 | Each night when we 'd finished our various tasks he would look at our hands by the light of a candle and probe with a needle for splinters . |
| 19 | Then out to his bed in a loft over the cowshed , leaving the family to draw in together in a cosy , alien-excluding unit around the flaming and hissing timber , to lie and smoke by the light of a candle and think o better days in the orphanage and wonder in unembittered fashion — for he had been happy there — about the mother who had abandoned him and the even shadowier lover who must have abandoned her . |
| 20 | As well as the sampler sweater mentioned earlier , you can add cables to the bodice of a garment and work the remaining yoke and sleeves in a simple small tuck pattern . |
| 21 | Some of this freehold land was no doubt held in small parcels but in the absence of a survey and map its full extent can not be known . |
| 22 | Others will say there are further matters which can destroy the very heart of a marriage and lead to irretrievable breakdown . |
| 23 | If it is the simple physical characteristics of a stimulus that play the key role in generalizations about behaviour , then we might expect to find patients who have lost the ability to lip-read and lost the ability to judge expression , but not patients who have lost only one of these two abilities while retaining the other . |
| 24 | You can either record this and play it back or stand in front of a friend and let them criticize and make helpful suggestions . |
| 25 | I isolate , eliminate or exaggerate parts of a scene and create my own version of the world . |
| 26 | Why did Euro Tunnel price its ‘ units ’ ( each unit consists of a share and warrant in both Euro Tunnel PLC and Euro Tunnel SA ) at 3.50 rather than 2 or 4 or any other price ? |
| 27 | One unconsidered move and too little or too much colour could give the complexion of a rustic the appearance of a corpse and transform the face of an angel into the countenance of a harlot . |
| 28 | But three minutes after the interval Leeds skipper Ellery Hanley took Schofield 's short pass to spin out of a tackle and go over for the try , goaled by Gallagher , which put Leeds in front for the first and only time in the game . |
| 29 | I WOULD rather take my children into the main bar or lounge of a pub and expect them to sit sensibly and reasonably quietly so that we can all relax , drink , talk and eat in a proper pub atmosphere . |
| 30 | While such views are common doctrine in grammars as far as finite forms are concerned , it will be proposed here that a support or person is also present in the infinitival form of the verb , even though the latter can neither be predicated grammatically of a subject nor take any personal endings . |