Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So you got to try out a few of these nice new cars yourself . ’ |
| 2 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 3 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |
| 4 | More tips next month , and if anyone wants to send in a few , go ahead — you might even get your name in print ! |
| 5 | When the grunge gets too much , at least 1992 's relentless targeting of the American underground has flushed out a few dissonant rumbles . |
| 6 | Kayley Desmond , 14 months , had suffered three respiratory attacks where she suddenly stopped breathing over a few hours , Nurse Maxine Motley told Nottingham Crown Court . |
| 7 | The film 's message — the continuing success of this homespun cottage industry with a modern technological core — seemed borne out a few months later when the company won a Queen 's Award for Export ; over a three-year period they had increased exports six-fold . |
| 8 | The Prince 's Youth Business Trust , which gives grants and loans to disadvantaged young people hoping to start their own businesses , is looking for volunteer business advisers prepared to give up a few hours a month to help the youngsters get their projects off the ground . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , Colin was a terrific help once we 'd thrashed out a few problems , ’ she said modestly . |
| 10 | Write briefly how you , as a receptionist , would deal with the situation where guests complain that their room has not been cleaned and they have had to wait over a half an hour for room service . |
| 11 | ‘ We would like to go over a few points relating to the Livesey murder , ’ Bragg said evenly . |
| 12 | What I would like to do with the financi financial commentary , is because it is , is an historic document , I would like to pull out a few plums which we can team brief . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think that professionalism as such should have a place within the playing side of the Association , ’ states the Dungiven clubman , ‘ We play for pure enjoyment and recreation and if along the way we manage to pick up a few honours , then that 's great . |
| 14 | Before concluding I would just like to put down a few words on permission and such like . |
| 15 | I shall begin to put out a few delicate hints . |
| 16 | Those who have read Mr Clark 's prose with mounting impatience might like to point out a few lessons to him : 1 ) mention the book early on ; 2 ) avoid the clichés ; 3 ) forswear dodgy phrases , like ‘ pied-piper 's trail of opportunity discarded ’ , which really mean very little . |
| 17 | Eventually when he 'd exhausted his immediately available epithets and had to pause to think up a few more off-beat ones , I interrupted . |
| 18 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 19 | A year or two ago I would have believed him , and maybe the truth would have come out a few months later . |
| 20 | the P.N.M. would have to sort out a few more issues of contention ; a Federated West Indies for instance ; constitutional reform ; should they let the U.S. retain its naval base at Chaguaramas ? and , are we a socialist movement ? |
| 21 | I will try to set up a few … safeguards in case our fears are proved true . ’ |
| 22 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 23 | I DECIDED to hand over a half share in my bungalow to my daughter now , and leave the other half share in my will to my grandchildren . |
| 24 | Together , by getting their fingers in the rat-holes , they managed to tug up a few feet of rotten chestnut boarding , tindery at the edges . |
| 25 | Or go back to HQ , and try to think up a few lines of enquiry for the staff there to pursue — men and women looking progressively more unwashed and unkempt and incompetent as the small hours of the morning gradually wore on . |
| 26 | Moreover , between tending the wounded , the doctor managed to fend off a few shots at snipers . |
| 27 | You seem to have filled in a few blank spaces for me . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 've roughed out a few questions but they 're only a guide . ’ |
| 29 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 30 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |