Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The families sit through a trial and feel short-changed by the sentence handed down . ’
2 With an interpreter we met for a drink and he told me that because his home was in East Germany he had been forbidden to travel abroad until quite recently when he became an old-age Pensioner ; this voyage was his first taste of freedom .
3 However the one thing that you must never do is to go between a cow and her calf and I made this mistake one morning and I had to take to my heals and run .
4 WIDNES allrounder Richard Hignett plays as a batsman when Cheshire open their Minor Counties championship programme against Cornwall at Stalybridge today .
5 Then you would remain as a group and could observe your own customs , those which do not conflict with our law . ’
6 I 've heard about a cockatoo but you 're talking about the hens cockerels .
7 But whether Rider Haggard wanted to move his mysterious veiled woman somewhat further from the realm of allegory near which she certainly appeared to reside in She and Ayesha , or whether he was merely exercising the husbandry of a writer who had created in Quatermain a remarkably useful narrator and wanted to make the fullest use of him , the fact remains that the ‘ She ’ of She and Allan is more shrewdly realised as a woman than in the two preceding books , even if her self- centred mysticism is still as grandiose and woolly as it was .
8 But I do n't think there 'll be any to spare for a day or two .
9 Naturally I did n't think for a minute that my life and spirit could stimulate her .
10 I do n't think for a minute that I can work them out in movies .
11 I did n't think for a minute that if we ever met again you would so bitterly slap it back in my face with no regard for my feelings . ’
12 ‘ When I got back and found your note I did n't think for a minute that it was because you thought I was the father of the child .
13 It 's a frustrating affair though — do n't think for a second that you can breeze through this game ; think yourself lucky if you get past the first few levels !
14 The effect is to make you think for a second that the church is only half there , that there must once have been a second side to it , to the right of the tower .
15 ‘ Well , now that we 've decided that nothing is going to happen tonight that does n't happen every Saturday night in Pepe 's Bar , tell me — why on earth can you even think for a second that Miguel is falling for me ? ’
16 But do n't think for a moment that I 'm duped by my own little lies . ’
17 I 'd love to help her , and I know every one of us would ; but I do n't think for a moment that Miss Miggs would let us pay her fare , even if we could raise so much money . ’
18 And I do n't think for a moment that I 'm alone in feeling this way .
19 Do n't think for a moment that the women are all on the creative side of the business .
20 He could feel the vibrations in his bones ; juddering the cradle he was strapped into , making him think for a moment that the tiny vehicle was going to shake itself to pieces .
21 I do not think for a moment that the Letter of Aristeas should be taken as a Festal Scroll , something like the Book of Esther , to be read in the Alexandrian synagogues every year on the day on which ( as we know from Philo ) the Alexandrian Jews commemorated the translation ( De vita Mosis 2.41 ) .
22 on the other hand , a school with a high rate of staff turnover can not usually afford to wait for a consensus and readiness that may never come ; and a staff hand-picked in a new school , or for a new school situation such as amalgamation or unstreaming , is usually in a mood for bigger adventures .
23 For this reason , instead of joining in the stampede for the latest and newest , I suggest it would be more prudent to wait for a year or two to see if the strawberry blonde holds her place as a glamour queen , or in reality is a blowzy old dame hobbling into the has-beens in the back row of the chorus , where she will find plenty to keep her company .
24 It may be necessary to wait for a place or take a place somewhere else ( either permanently or temporarily ) .
25 Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature .
26 I also think that erm it 's up to erm us — I mean if you think of us as a whole travel industry — to really take a look at what we are providing and compare it with what is provided in other countries ; the standards of service , how long do you have to wait for a meal when you 're sitting down to eat in a restaurant , what are people used to in France and Germany and the USA ?
27 Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount .
28 Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side .
29 It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more .
30 When spring had come , the village filled for a week or so with men from the Tibetan villages further north .
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