Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How do you spend the rest of your time when you 're not on or planning an expedition ? |
| 2 | Community nurses and health visitors are paid a mileage allowance but you will also want to know who pays for what if you should break down or have an accident , and whether you can claim an allowance against income tax for general depreciation . |
| 3 | Whether the day follows a pattern of group discussion alone or involves an element of competitiveness by dividing the overall group into smaller groups with set targets to achieve , you should bear in mind a few good rules . |
| 4 | Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ ‘ incubated ’ unnoticed and in documenting this fact we can do no better than quote an epidemiologist ( Hughes 1977 ) working within a similar heroin outbreak in Chicago during the early 1960s : ‘ In this epidemic there was a tragic time lag between the contagious stage during which heroin use spread and the stage when the epidemic 's full impact was felt and reacted to by the host community . ’ |
| 5 | Landgrebe , only the second graduate employed by the company , had taken over Peter Revers ' job when the latter went to New York and had responsibilities for scheduling and managing shops , but knew better than to express an opinion on artistic matters . |
| 6 | So that put an end to that … no more dances down at Cotherstone for me . |
| 7 | The hospital said I 'd better go in and sent an ambulance round for me . |
| 8 | The results were often not good , yet only in a few severe cases did HMI go in and make an impact with its report . |
| 9 | I never worried about her this last year , you know , because I knew you dropped in and kept an eye on her . |
| 10 | He pulls the top part of the metal cover further up , and the lower half sinks at the same time ; he reaches in and gathers an armful of logs , bringing them over to the hearth . |
| 11 | You go in and choose an evening wear |
| 12 | What happens is that on a high speed reach there is so much sideways pressure on the skeg that an area of low pressure around the skeg sucks air down and creates an air pocket around the fin. , therefore making it useless . |
| 13 | At three o'clock , when I had scanned every crack in the ridge , every curve of every dune , every patch of colour on the plain , I looked down and saw an ant , crawling into the wind . |
| 14 | With experienced viewers there was not only a high degree of involvement in watching the work ‘ … melt down and become an object with a life of its own ’ ( Hyman , 1968 ) but also a strength and honesty of feeling that outweighed any more general sense of like or dislike . |
| 15 | I need to get Jo to come down and make an appointment What 's the name please ? |
| 16 | Erm there 's a Mr in reception can you come down and make an appointment ? |
| 17 | ‘ If you 're not careful you 'll fall down and break an arm , ’ his mother said . |
| 18 | the people , because you know normally if a student comes to see me , I sit down and have an hour and half 's discussion |
| 19 | Is it any wonder she was ready to say so and make an end of it ? ’ |
| 20 | How many women want to sit down at two o'clock and give an hour and a half of their attention to a play of any sort whatsoever , let alone one about the life of somebody who collects Irish folk ballads ? |
| 21 | We are able to calculate the population for the late 17th century when a census was taken throughout Kent to enumerate the various religious bodies i.e. the number of Conformists , Catholics and Nonconformists , the return for Hailing showing 60 Conformists , no Catholics or Nonconformists , so allowing this figure was for adults only and allowing an average of 40 children for 60 adults this gives us a total of 100 . |
| 22 | This measurement focus considers financial resources only and uses an accrual basis of accounting . ’ |
| 23 | An adult , by itself , will be hard-pressed to repel a determined attack on its young , but in a massed colony , outraged parents join together and surround an intruder in a cloud , shrieking angrily , diving on it and harrying it in a continuous attack . |
| 24 | Telling herself she was an idiot , she pulled her thoughts together and made an effort to concentrate upon what he was saying , and as she listened to the pleasant tones of his deep voice she realised he was on the subject of white-water rafting . |
| 25 | Mr Brady and Ms Guile approached the landlord together and expressed an interest in taking up six months occupation of a two-roomed flat . |
| 26 | Carl Perkins and myself , with DJ and everybody , got together and did an album in April . |
| 27 | ‘ Those who had not been in the banqueting hall banded together and created an Emergency Council . ’ |
| 28 | In 1875 Richard D'Oyly Carte , an impresario , brought the immortal pair together and established an opera company to present the authorised versions of their works . |
| 29 | If we say that such-and-such a group of words are the " subject " or that some other group of words are the " predicate " in a copular verb phrase , we are , by such observations , recognizing the speaker 's intention to construct expressions which will identify certain properties and entities , and to assign some of the former to one of the latter , so as to let an audience know what entities are under attention and which properties are claimed to hold for which entities ; we take this to be the essence of what goes on in the use and understanding of linguistic expression ( whatever the purpose to which individual acts of communication are directed ) . |
| 30 | This will not be easy , and , where the seller has solved the problem of infringement by obtaining a licence , or redesigning the goods so as to put an end to the infringement , there may not be any other damage suffered in any event . |