Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton was forced to close down its executive search division in 1980 , when serious problems surfaced as a result of trying to carry on a recruiting business whilst at the same time having 3000 management consultancy clients on their books , who were more or less off-limits from the point of view of providing candidates for headhunting . |
| 2 | Once authorisation to carry on a banking business has been granted by the home member state to a bank in accordance with the Community 's essential requirements , the Community legislative approach is to require the host country in which the bank may wish to provide cross-border services or establish a branch to recognise the validity of that authorisation , and to allow it to do so without making additional ‘ authorisation ’ requirements to the bank . |
| 3 | His best friend did not go to the funeral because he had already decided to go on a day trip to France ! |
| 4 | ARSENAL manager George Graham has been given the green light to go on a Christmas spending spree . |
| 5 | N : Looking at my nappies hanging on a washing line in our kitchen |
| 6 | Si sit down a minute love |
| 7 | Along this trench , oceanic crust with ophiolites and " turbidites " coming from the south-east was probably consumed down a Benioff zone . |
| 8 | Those objections have been overridden , not least because USAir has lost $1 billion in the past three years and urgently needs BA 's cash , although the US transportation secretary , Federico Pena , laid down a warning marker on the type of negotiations to come when asked about British resistance to allowing US airlines to land at Heathrow Airport . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's redlining it at 6,000 , ’ he said , referring to the straining Tachometer , while firing down a bus lane in first gear at about forty . |
| 10 | Or a man with her husband 's build parading down a Paris runway in Calvin Klein 's latest skivvies . |
| 11 | Grégoire 's ability to take a clock to pieces and put it together again , to strip down a car engine , to harness a horse and ride it well , to know and to cherish the names and characteristics of plants and of animals — all these abilities meant nothing to Hugo at all . |
| 12 | One question I did ask at the Fire and Public Protection Committees what happens when you do n't , when we bring in a unity authority status . |
| 13 | The passage and the cavern were formed where a stream of water used to flow along a bedding plane between layers of limestone . |
| 14 | Tracey and her supervisor together with Mrs Brown have already filled in a Care Plan Assessment Form . |
| 15 | Today Oxford magistrates were told he had not told the authorities who was driving , or filled in a means test form . |
| 16 | Furthermore even in a fused profession , the barristers in chambers in the Inns of Court and elsewhere would undoubtedly enter into partnership as specialist trial advocates and do agency work for other solicitors , whose own staff were unable to act as advocates in every case or where the complexity of the case justified bringing in a specialist advocate . |
| 17 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 18 | Harry was scarcely acquainted with his horse and could offer no reassurance ; neither did he think of bringing in a companion horse for the mare . |
| 19 | TITIA Sutherland 's OUT OF THE SHADOWS ( Black Swan £5.99 ) deals tenderly with the relationship of a girl and an ageing woman , as well as bringing in a ghost story and wartime tragedy . |
| 20 | Ralph Meeker snapped an old man 's priceless Caruso record in half in Kiss Me Deadly , Richard Conte tortured Cornel Wilde by turning up a hearing aid and shouting into it in The Big Combo , Ingrid Bergman drank the poisoned Brazilian coffee in Notorious , Charles Laughton plunged down a lift shaft in The Big Clock , Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth shot it out in a hall of mirrors in Lady from Shanghai , Edmond O'Brien lurched into a police station to report his own murder in D.O.A. , Tony Curtis was brutally beaten by a corrupt cop in Sweet Smell of Success , Laurence Harvey jumped in the lake in The Manchurian Candidate . |
| 21 | She had no time to spare for embarrassment , due to shoes totally unsuitable for climbing down a cliff path . |
| 22 | Each morning trucks from the factory bumped along a dust road and turned down on to the low gravel bank where we were moored . |
| 23 | A man driving down a country road is stopped , and a spike is driven into his head . |
| 24 | When you ring , Butlin 's will make a provisional booking and request that you send in a booking form , available in a Butlin 's Holiday Worlds brochure . |
| 25 | In A Landscape with Simple Figures , the teacher is advised first to demonstrate the drawing with charcoal on a large sheet of white paper ; the landscape , illustrating figures walking down a country road , is shown in the manual for her to copy . |
| 26 | With memories of sailing planing dinghies still fresh in his mind , he wanted a boat that would surf down a tradewind roller with the tiller humming easily in his hand . |
| 27 | Police Constable Harry Evans is driving along a country road when he sees strange lights in the sky and an object larger than a bus hovering in the road ahead of him . |
| 28 | Willie was in the town garage , giving good advice to someone stripping down a motor bike . |
| 29 | Dungannon nearly increased their lead when Jonathon Hastings charged down a Highfield kick in midfield . |
| 30 | Relax deeply , then imagine yourself walking along a country lane . |