Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not want to carry on a lengthy conversation with this garrulous dumb woman ; she wanted to go to bed and hug Edward Bear . |
| 2 | For some reason we do not think in such simplistic terms and did not dismiss the Director of Licensing at the CAA from office when the pilot of a Vanguard trying to land in a snowstorm at Basle failed to carry out a successful instrument approach and killed all those poor housewives out on a day shopping trip . |
| 3 | It is , however , something to keep in the back of your mind on a shoot , and if you intend to carry out a post-production edit , pace can be a major factor in determining how you organise the assembly of your shots . |
| 4 | They might prefer to work out a general letter and simply insert the details such as where they saw the job advertised and the name given to the vacancy advertised . |
| 5 | She sit down on the chair but she 'll want to stand up a little bit cause we got bins underneath and she wants to put her feet on the bins |
| 6 | I got to work up a good sweat . |
| 7 | The Economy Ministers of Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay met on July 20 in the Uruguayan capital , Montevideo , and agreed to work out a joint set of rules to combat the dumping and sale of subsidised goods by non-members of their prospective common market agreed under the Mercosur Treaty of March 1991 [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 8 | Darren Pearce 's Sapphire 1.8 LX has racked up a remarkable 112,000 miles in four years without missing a beat — and without regular servicing |
| 9 | Mr Wade said : ‘ Quite clearly , the ambulance service needs to carry out a full investigation . ’ |
| 10 | Although he has Aussie Mike Farrell returning to grind out a certain 1,000 league runs for him , new skipper of Marske , Alan Hugill , faces an uphill struggle having lost the valuable services of all-rounder John Drake who will be studying at Chester College and wicket keeper Graham Foggin who is working in the Bahamas . |
| 11 | Fist fights at the team 's base camp at Dunblane Hydro , a bender in Perth where two players were caught pissing up a close next to the town 's ‘ Shanghai Takeaway ’ , a euphoric send-off at Hampden Park , followed by defeat against Peru , a disgraceful match with Iran , a drug scandal and a piece of eleventh-hour magic which nearly overwhelmed the beaten finalists Holland . |
| 12 | Neal Zaslaw has pointed out a semantic correspondence to this : in German usage , the difference between ‘ old-fashioned church practices ’ and opera/concert practice ( dual-system ) was manifest in the two words tactieren ( literally , ‘ giving the tactus ’ ) and dirigieren . |
| 13 | This situation — where one man , eminent as he is , nevertheless has to carry out a huge amount of work effectively on his own , mirrors the two previous demutualisations — is a situation many believe should not have been repeated . |
| 14 | The Rangers Service has to carry out a fine balancing act — too many visitors could destroy the very habitat the rangers are trying to conserve . |
| 15 | If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing . |
| 16 | Poor bus services have already been identified by new town bosses who want to carry out a full traffic survey with interested bodies , including Lothian Regional Council . |
| 17 | As well as observing the score 's incredible organization of its thematic riches — ‘ I tried to work out a little table of leitmotifs and I got past 70 , which is amazing in an opera ’ — Maazel discovered in rehearsal just how well thought out Puccini 's orchestration actually is . |
| 18 | The session was short , the smile fading from the face of the accused as Mrs Balanchine described in detail how the car had come storming around a blind corner and swung in close to the wall where they were waiting to cross . |
| 19 | A girl came in and tried to haggle over a nineteenth-century vase , but Rachaela told her Mrs Mantini fixed the prices fairly and never reduced items . |
| 20 | Mirroring Sun Microsystems Inc 's efforts in this area ( UX No 386 ) Hewlett-Packard Co has rolled out a new range of ISDN connectivity enabling standalone workstations to communicate over public or private ISDN networks . |
| 21 | To see this is to recognize the stylistic value of Golding 's choice : that his version of the event is of movements perceived in space and time , from which the reader has to work out a normal understanding of what is happening . |
| 22 | In February 1870 , while the new French government of Emile Ollivier tried to hammer out a revised constitution for the reformed Empire , Bismarck opened up his campaign to persuade Leopold that he ought seriously to consider becoming King of Spain . |
| 23 | Tadpole US has picked up a new president , Kenneth Cannizzaro , previously the firm 's director of business development : he 's responsible for operations and market expansion in the Americas and the Pacific Rim . |
| 24 | The BBC has picked up a similar trend . |
| 25 | Michael Roberts has picked up a two-week ban in South Africa for the second time this winter . |
| 26 | Keith Campbell , from north Belfast , has picked up a top award from computer firm Digital after coming first in the BTEC National Diploma in a computer studies course at Belfast Institute School of Informatics . |
| 27 | It has carried out a five-year study which it says shows no significant increase in radiation is reaching the earth 's surface . |
| 28 | The Royal Brompton has carried out a mere four heart-lung transplants this year . |
| 29 | Stemberger ( 1984 ) has carried out a recent study of lexical errors produced by normal adult native speakers of English in natural speech settings . |
| 30 | The Girls and Mathematics Unit has carried out a substantial number of project on girls ' classroom performance in Mathematics , spanning nursery to secondary schools . |