Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Words about words tend to float off into a mysterious space of their own — though I hope most of those we have used have been firmly pinned down . |
| 2 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 3 | Well done , excellent , erm , as you can see , in some ways quite a complex er , issue , and it 's one of those things really , I think to fully understand this , you got to sit down with a pencil and paper and work it through yourself . |
| 4 | Some of you might be thinking , well , I 'm never going to advocate , I never intend to go anywhere near a court . |
| 5 | And he said : ‘ Do you want to go forward on a charge on that ? ’ |
| 6 | Now I was talking to your Doctor who was wondering whether we might want to go out for a few beers at some point |
| 7 | ‘ Thank you , but I do n't want to go out for a meal tonight . ’ |
| 8 | Do the Bank want to go back to a time when a male official could not get married until he was earning £150 per annum and by the time he was earning that sum he was past having an interest in marriage . |
| 9 | I could have returned to Ipswich but I did n't want to go back like a beggar . |
| 10 | ‘ But we did n't want to go in with a heavy commitment at first ; we took a PC and wrote our own very simple software to deal with incoming orders . ’ |
| 11 | And we 've got a very big computerized telephone system , so that if it does n't answer sit there with a stopwatch timing each phone I presume , it 's all automatically done and they get a print out at the end of every month giving the average time of the , the phone the , the , the phone takes to be answered . |
| 12 | I daresay they 'll wonder why on earth you agreed to go out with a chap like me . " |
| 13 | Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win . |
| 14 | Unfortunately my original Precision got ripped off in a place called Redondo Beach . |
| 15 | I had arranged to go out in a crab boat to get JTR 's coastal sketches . |
| 16 | I 've had two or three I think , very rarely do we find them and shapers tend to go out on a limb they tend to want to lead they tend to want to control they want people to follow their way they do tend to be the people that dig in and say you know this is the way we do it . |
| 17 | The effect is somewhat studio-bound — Oppitz steers a beautifully controlled course through treacherous terrain , never taking a tumble , but never freewheeling either , and never daring to swing recklessly around a corner . |
| 18 | You do n't want to work hard for a year establishing your act , get offered a tour , and then find that your drummer wo n't give up his milk round . |
| 19 | The forty seven year old aircraft failed to come out of a loop during a flying display at Woodford aerodrome near Manchester in June . |
| 20 | Why should a female want to pair up with a male that already has several females when there are bachelors around ? |
| 21 | The hoarse words were intended to come out as a joke , but instead they held a raw note of emotion which seemed to hang in the air between them . |
| 22 | Despite all the things that happen to us , such as religious conversion , dreams , accidents , bereavement , psychological shock — all those things that pull us out of everyday reality — we tend to slip back to a belief that there is a bedrock of common sense and sensibility at the heart of things . |
| 23 | It is more like a slow process of sifting , in which , by a long series of stages , and with many pauses , grains of one kind tend to come together in a heap ’ . |
| 24 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 25 | You 're obviously more cautious than you were before , and erm a lot of kids now they tend to stand back for a while just in case 'cause you can never judge how fast they 're really going to go through there . |
| 26 | Did you want to stand up for a minute ? |
| 27 | DEC is struggling to come up with a clear , forthright statement on its Unix policy for a worldwide briefing it 's planning on holding February 10 . |
| 28 | so of course that would 've come out at a later stage , yeah , you know there 's a lot of business miles involved in flying to all these er places . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 30 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |