Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By impacting with neighbouring particles they vibrate about a locus , and only appear to remain in a fixed position . |
| 2 | The arguments given above when taken together seem to lead to a contradiction . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm promising you a gracious occasion , so try to behave with a bit of savoir faire . |
| 4 | Confusion seems to reign in many areas of your life at present , so try to get on an even keel . |
| 5 | ‘ Secondly , Philip hopes Edward will lay claim to Scotland and so become immersed in a tangled and lengthy war . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You know , Hank , if you really want to write for a living you should go to London and Edinburgh , go to Europe , too — perhaps try working for a newspaper or magazine . |
| 7 | Why are we so ready to treat as a minor operation an alteration which involves a major transformation in the cat 's lifestyle and personality ? |
| 8 | On some moorlands the chemicals which were washed down have solidified into a thin ‘ cement-like ’ layer , or iron pan . |
| 9 | Many of these animals not only have to contend with a changing landscape due to human development ( ! ) but also human greed . |
| 10 | No as soon as it gets anywhere past the top , you only have to have about a four inch dick . |
| 11 | It was miraculous to find so young a girl , of Juliet 's own age , with a depth of passion which could by rights only have belonged to an older woman ; the problem of casting the ideal was solved . |
| 12 | Have you ever said , ‘ I think I was meant to be big ’ or ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2 lbs ( 0.9kg ) ’ or ‘ I ca n't diet ’ ? |
| 13 | ‘ I was a big baby — I 'm obviously meant to be this size ’ , ‘ all my family are big ’ , ‘ I 've tried every diet , they just do n't seem to work for me ’ , ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2lbs ( 0.9kg ) ! ’ |
| 14 | You only have to look at a prole in this book and it rolls over to have its tummy tickled . |
| 15 | ‘ You only have to look at a picture of him when he resigned and compare it with one from six months beforehand . |
| 16 | ‘ I know that , ’ Candy returned ruefully , ‘ and it 's always been the bane of my life that you can eat your way through a tuckshop without gaining a pound while I only have to look at a picture of a cream cake to make the scales groan . ’ |
| 17 | You only need to type in a close approximation of the word and leave it to the spell-checker to sort out . |
| 18 | We put this to you as an answer to all slimmers who say they only need to look at a single cake or bar of chocolate to put on a substantial amount of fat . |
| 19 | Savings resulting from the Energy Efficiency Office 's programmes alone have led to a current annual energy saving worth more than £500 million a year . |
| 20 | We rightly have to live in an environment of audits , commissions , Ombudsman and legal review in the course of our conduct . |
| 21 | Sainsbury knows that young people planning their careers rarely put working in a supermarket at the top of their list . |
| 22 | Now I just want to look at a simple class of demand function , right , which we could write , if I can get a pen that works we write the demand function as P equals A over Q to the beta . |
| 23 | Just imagine going into a court of law to argue a case depending on its provisions . |
| 24 | The Indians , whose faith in Australian umpires waned throughout the tour , were aggrieved again when Marsh , short of his ground , was not given out ( Prabhakar soon let fly with a second — no-balled — bouncer ) . |
| 25 | But we just happen to live in a history in which the Allies won the war and Madonna was on the cover of Cosmopolitan . |
| 26 | Young males that regularly harass a particular harem owner finally get accepted as a member of the harem . |
| 27 | So you get paid till half past twelve Christmas Eve look , so it 's thirteen seventy five till twelve that we normally get paid on a Friday . |
| 28 | ‘ Just keep looking for a more credible suspect with a motive you have n't found yet , I suggest . ’ |
| 29 | That is , why is it that some people rather than others who experience the type of disparity described above become committed to a movement for moral reform ? |
| 30 | Secondly , democratic parliaments around the world generally try to operate on a two-party basis . |