Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the first years or so of paying into an endowment fund , most of your money will be paid straight to the lender or broker who arranged the policy . |
| 2 | He knocked and went in without waiting for an answer . |
| 3 | Then I went in without waiting for an invitation . |
| 4 | ‘ Shall I cut it ? ’ he said , and sliced eagerly in without waiting for an answer . |
| 5 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 6 | As I said , mine 's only on ringing with an external call , is n't it . |
| 7 | To save the shot , you can then do one of two things : reframe the shot to exclude the sky , perhaps by moving to an angle where the sky is obscured by a building ; or , correct for the backlight either by pressing the backlight button or by making a manual adjustment to the iris ( depending on which facility is provided on your machine ) . |
| 8 | His words suggest that Twain 's book brought back Eliot 's childhood not merely by functioning as an aide-mémoire . |
| 9 | The fourth point , the idea that science is intrinsically masculine , can be sustained only by clinging to an irredeemably narrow conception of science and scientific thinking . |
| 10 | Shortly after appearing on an independent television programme to discuss his views ( no BBC programme invited him on ) , Altrincham was hit in the face by a furious official of the League of Empire Loyalists . |
| 11 | There was no mistaking the menace in his demeanour as he advanced towards her , and Fran took several hasty steps backwards before coming to an abrupt halt against the wall . |
| 12 | Well , after the er publishers had approached me and , and asked me if I would be interested in doing this book er the next thing to do was actually get hold of all the Ordinance Survey maps for Oxfordshire , er you know , quite a big county , so er once we 'd done that er the next thing to do was to actually just work out exactly where we wanted the walks to be , and they 've obviously , for commercial reasons they 've got to be fairly evenly spread throughout the county , but you can tell quite quickly and quite easily by looking at an Ordinance Survey map , you know , where all the paths are , they 're all clearly marked , er public footpaths , public bridleways , that sort of thing , and the next step was to actually create from the maps , circular walks to fit in with the requirement . |
| 13 | ‘ May we , Mr Connon ? ’ said Dalziel , setting off without waiting for an answer . |
| 14 | Special fabric paint is applied using a stencil brush and then the design is fixed permanently by pressing with an iron . |
| 15 | Sullivan and Thomas ( 1981 ) take this concern one stage further by commenting upon an even more extreme form of school curriculum isolation . |
| 16 | Repeated non-availability or failures to show up after agreeing to an engagement are likely to result in a discontinuation of offers of work , and in this sense casual working requires an acceptance of many of the same disciplines as apply to working in a regular fashion . |
| 17 | This is because cousin has a general meaning which covers all the more specific possibilities ( not only with regard to sex , but also with regard to an indefinitely large number of other matters , such as height , age , eye-colour , etc . ) . |
| 18 | His beautifully shaped mouth gave an infinitesimal twitch , and she relaxed slightly before rushing into an explanation . |
| 19 | The reluctant Vicomtesse now propped the broken mirror on a shelf and poked fingers at her hair which she had piled loosely before decorating with an ostrich feather . |
| 20 | Sometimes he/she will do this for an individual assessment event ( e.g. in commenting on an essay ) : |
| 21 | Her husband Alex is now in hiding after an abortive escape attempt . |
| 22 | However , far from responding in an organised manner , ‘ the police broke ranks and used their batons indiscriminately ’ ( ibid.:29 ) . |
| 23 | The descriptions , far from gesturing to an external or subjective reality , merely affirm their own status as verbally constructed artefacts . |
| 24 | Alexander opened the box and took the contents out without waiting for an answer . |
| 25 | ‘ Gravy ? ’ asked Shirley , and poured it on without waiting for an answer . |
| 26 | He babbled on without waiting for an answer . |
| 27 | Ward ( 1979 ) noted with alarm the signs of what he called ‘ Frontier man 's fright ’ whereby after working in an area for some time without apparent response from professional colleagues in related disciplines there is a tendency to desert it just as its true worth is to be recognized by others : |
| 28 | Regulatory control , however , is concerned for the most part with organizational deviance , and with many activities in which compliance does not reside simply in refraining from an act , but in positively doing something to remedy a state of affairs . |
| 29 | They were treated in this way because birds might be able to acquire the skill simply by coming across an already opened milk bottle . |
| 30 | It was almost like performing to an empty house . |