Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is pretty difficult to carry on a conversation like that , let alone write a scientific paper . |
| 2 | The benefit of planning permission to carry on a business from premises is normally lost by a subsequent change of use of those premises . |
| 3 | A few days later we passed the desiccated corpse of another brigand hanging on a gibbet beside the track . |
| 4 | They insisted she had insulted counter girls after she had been refused discount on a slinky black evening dress which she saw hanging on a rail in the fashionable Hyper Hyper clothes store in London 's Kensington High Street . |
| 5 | There was a gas boiler , comparatively modern , mounted above a deep square porcelain sink much stained and with a clean but crumpled tea towel hanging on a hook beside it . |
| 6 | Massingham walked over to Berowne 's jacket hanging on a hook at the back of the door and felt in the two outer and one inner pockets . |
| 7 | As was quite normal in those days Robert Burrows kept a strap hanging on a hook at the end of the dining table . |
| 8 | He took a handkerchief from the pocket of his trousers which were still hanging on a hook behind him . |
| 9 | Of course he had the sense to hurry when she was hanging on a line from New York . |
| 10 | His Dad kept it hanging on a nail in the shed and he 'd have noticed right away if it was missing . |
| 11 | The man went to a jacket hanging on a nail in the corner , and Produced a used envelope with pencilled writing on the outside . |
| 12 | The sensor will react instantaneously to body heat and bring on a light outside your home whenever anyone approaches . |
| 13 | However , the use of pig fat in the enfleurage process will be off-putting to the vegetarian who may have to forgo the pleasures of jasmine and tuberose or track down a supplier of the even more elusive vegetable oil absolutes . |
| 14 | Some of the episodes and dialogue are intentionally comic — as when the son helps a friendly local chief to shake off some warriors from a neighbouring tribe by bringing down a swarm of bees on them . |
| 15 | He further let it be known — in the most careless way imaginable , like a good gun bringing down a bird without breaking a conversational flow — that he was a bachelor , a man of wealth , a friend of the Prime Minister and , in an amiable manner , on the lookout for a secure investment in matrimony . |
| 16 | If you can not get your shoes back on , bring along a pair of flip-flops or sandals that you can slip into and which wo n't aggravate your feet . |
| 17 | Stripes can go a bit fuzzy , too , and most people bring along a selection of clothes . |
| 18 | Better still , bring along a coach from your parish . |
| 19 | Or more seriously bring along a book on figure drawing to help you and do n't be afraid to hold a pencil at arm 's length to measure proportions . |
| 20 | In a March speech at the Hotel Cecil he laid down a plan of submitting food taxes — the most controversial item — to a referendum . |
| 21 | The getaway driver , in a blue Ford , laid down a burst of suppressing fire , forcing the bodyguards to dive for cover . |
| 22 | The troops would n't leave the trenches , so the French generals laid down a barrage on them . |
| 23 | Mel Chin ( USA , b. 1951 ) laid down a field of plants which extract heavy metals from the ground by a process called hyperaccumulation , in his ‘ Revival field Netherlands : simultaneous replicated field experiments ’ . |
| 24 | Then you laid down a bed of branches . |
| 25 | In the same way , the laws of thermodynamics laid down a framework within which engines and refrigerators operate . |
| 26 | Major-General Frank Kitson , writing in 1977 , laid down a code of basic principles for the guidance of a government fighting terrorism . |
| 27 | ‘ Our great founder laid down a rule in his will that anyone who went to prison would not have to pay his subscription during the time that he was unable to use the club premises , and that any unused portion of his subscription should be held over until his release . ’ |
| 28 | THE LATE Jock Stein laid down a strategy for the World Cup when he said that a team could wear working clothes to qualify , but needed to find evening dress for the event itself . |
| 29 | It may happen when parents have indoctrinated their children , that is , laid down a set of beliefs without allowing the children freedom to think for themselves and to come up with their own reactions . |
| 30 | Twenty years ago liberal justices on the court laid down a series of laws against discriminatory employment practices . |