Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is real wilderness — we met no-one else in a day 's walking . |
| 2 | If you 're trying to catch somebody immediately after a crime , you grab every man you can and smother the area . |
| 3 | Impact printers are the largest group and consist of three main sub categories ; dot matrix , daisy wheel and ink jet and , apart from the latter which actually fires its ink these operate by pressing something hard through a ribbon in order to leave an impression on the sheet of paper . |
| 4 | ‘ I built one specifically to a seven-note design and the loco carried it from Paddington to Sheffield . |
| 5 | Kuijken ( ) , as ever , puts musical values first , and in this he reminds me very much of a firstgeneration ‘ authentic ’ recording made by the Collegium Aureum under Schmidt-Garden ( not yet available on CD ) , which similarly involved one textually in a way which few versions can match , even if one is left with the impression that many of the musical solutions may have registered almost as comfortably on modern instruments . |
| 6 | There are already two hundred thousand Chinese living in Cholon and you can buy everything there from a pipe of opium to a slant-eyed " singing girl . " " |
| 7 | Certainly evasion was rife in 1381 , as can be seen from the marked discrepancies between the numbers paying the tax in that year and the figures for 1377 [ A.4 ] , and there is no reason to believe that the payments in the earlier year , although more complete , provide anything close to a total record of the population . |
| 8 | And the reason I call it a candid portrait is because I do n't think that the he may have seen somebody there with a camera , but he certainly was n't posing for the camera . |
| 9 | Then he 'd have to go off and do something else for a while before he could stomach being with him again . |
| 10 | I think you need to go and do something else for a little while I said cos if you keep looking over thinking you ca n't do it , have a break and go back to it afterwards you just get really despondent |
| 11 | After 10 years at top level , it 's a pity that Ben still has n't understood that you can never be the best climber sin the world , because there is always someone who will do something better in a given area of the sport . |
| 12 | The main job is to begin fitting everything together into a single , coherent whole . |
| 13 | To hire one possibly for a specific specific job but |
| 14 | Yet a balanced assessment of Ramsay 's oeuvre leads one invariably to a agree with Horace Walpole 's judgment that Ramsay ‘ is all delicacy . |
| 15 | They reflect money balances and just as a mirror image shows everything literally as a mirror image , everything is the opposite way round , so too are the balances in the mirror accounts in relation to the balances in the NOSTRO and VOSTRO accounts . |
| 16 | Erm we have n't got anybody here with a beard so we ca n't demonstrate and anyway it would be a dangerous experiment if we did , but supposing you tried to strangle me and I 've got a big beard you know , a kind of Karl Marx style beard well a big beard , er you get your hands round my neck and what can I do ? |
| 17 | The mark of a good network is excellent data throughput , and a fast cached local bus IDE card should knock everything else into a cocked hat , even giving that speed demon , SCSI , a run for its money . |
| 18 | If one of the big parties wins something close to a majority of seats , it may have two ways of avoiding dependence on either Catalans or Basques . |
| 19 | I made one yesterday in a meat tin and so Lynn had a lump and I got a lump and you here . |
| 20 | This year represents something close to a dismantling of the American presidential campaign . |
| 21 | It might be impossible to draw everyone together for a single meeting but all need to be kept in touch with what 's going on and their opinions sought . |
| 22 | I remember nothing there except a girl in the top class , who was fair-haired and had a bright complexion , and I see her now in my mind 's eye outstretched , lying upon her back on the floor . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a name I seem to be stuck with , but it really would be nice to be called something else for a change , says actor Nigel Havers , best known for his role in the ITV series of the same name . |
| 24 | ‘ I hope , ’ said Rain over her shoulder , ‘ we do n't meet anyone else with a gun . ’ |
| 25 | This may in fact may have been the prime interest of most of those gathered at Enham , who seem to have been attending something very like a French peace meeting . |
| 26 | His European diplomacy had been a triumph ; he had sealed something very like a partnership with Mikhail Gorbachev ; he had reason to think that a deal on the Uruguay round of the GATT would be completed by Christmas . |
| 27 | Durance himself may manage something once in a while , but there is no one who can help him achieve those masterpieces in the way that Jourdain did . |
| 28 | Come to think of it , I remember reading something recently about a new exhibition of his , going on tour . |
| 29 | And this is precisely what he has done , to present everyone else with a fait accompli . |
| 30 | Please remember that non-attendance deprives someone else of a place . |