Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then in between , I was to go round with him , say in the afternoons or some mornings , and he had heard about a fox somewhere . |
| 2 | Right , well let's just think for a minute exactly what you just said , can you repeat to me roughly what you 've just said ? |
| 3 | The concept clearly was meant to establish a College in the broad sense of a learned foundation , whereas what emerged almost inevitably , from the actual circumstances of its establishment and funding , degenerated into what was to remain for a century basically and predominantly a horse infirmary . |
| 4 | I do n't honestly know , he said er , he 's got to go in for his test , he said , and then I 'll have to see about a car so I do n't know whether they 're gon na buy him one or not |
| 5 | They stood there , breathless , as the steps came nearer , stopped for a moment outside then turned up the corridor . |
| 6 | At sixteen they had her married to a cousin who lived about a mile away . |
| 7 | Dovercourt in the thirties was an Essex coastal village favoured as a retirement home for those who enjoyed stiff breezes and bracing walks . |
| 8 | That 's probably why I want to go for a dump now . |
| 9 | If you decide to go for a ScreenShow then HGW offers a limited range of transition effects which you apply on a slide by slide basis . |
| 10 | Yet that person with AD may be ‘ positioned ’ differently , both by themselves and others , if they avoid the games because they perceive them as a mindless waste of time and prefer to go for a walk instead . |
| 11 | I decided to go for a walk westward along the side of the fjord . |
| 12 | More than 200 special guests gathered for a dinner nearby . |
| 13 | Thus when the dried food is gone , a favourite delicacy is given for a job well done . |
| 14 | PAKISTAN fast bowler Aqib Javed was exposed as a cheat yesterday — thanks to the Daily Mirror . |
| 15 | I lay for a while simply wrestling with the enormity of it . |
| 16 | Well she just asked about a bed so I told her that |
| 17 | I was n't sure I qualified as a surfer yet , but I hoped I might benefit from this general disposition . |
| 18 | This promises to make nursing as a career much more dynamic and pro-active , although the nursing role in caring for the sick and those people limited by disability will continue and develop in response to the needs expressed by society . |
| 19 | If he then writes a monograph about a " tribe " or a " people " or a " social system " and he wants to be recognized as a scientist rather than as an artist , he is under pressure to persuade himself ( and his readers ) that the events which he saw happening before his eyes were " typical " of what might be going on elsewhere in the system . |
| 20 | He was ambitious to be recognized as a physiologist as successful as his father . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's an experienced player now and I would be disappointed if he had n't matured as a player all round . ’ |
| 22 | He recently asked for a transfer though . |
| 23 | and I 'd rather so I so I put a description in , asked for a description yesterday , |
| 24 | In 1984 the WCFBA Plenary Assembly asked for a Synod entirely on the biblical apostolate in the Church . |
| 25 | She was lifted out of her perch above the engine and made for the customs shed where she asked for a mirror so that she could restore order to her wrecked coiffure before she went into Paris . |
| 26 | You cos you know Bonnie yeah , sh she erm got offered a er job in Glitters in Camden yeah it 's a shop in Camden , and sh she told Honey and Dan about it yeah and the next thing she knows yeah like the next day , she 's talking to Dan and Honey and Honey comes out and says oh I went down to Glitters and asked for a job right said right to Honey 's face I mean Bonnie 's face . |
| 27 | Mont Blanc , to be sure , has existed for a long time , and probably will exist for a while yet , but it does not work to stay in existence . |
| 28 | The proposal was that His Majesty would invite certain individuals as individuals to take upon their shoulders the burden of carrying on the Government and Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Samuel ( sic ) had stated that they were prepared to act accordingly … the Administration would not exist for a period longer than was necessary to dispose of the emergency , and when that purpose was achieved the political parties would resume their respective positions . |
| 29 | ‘ Seeing through a glass darkly ’ , he once told an ecumenical committee , ‘ is not the same thing as an ecumenical fog. , After the war he began to travel to meetings as a consultant . |
| 30 | The case for seeing through a glass darkly |