Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is characteristic of the popular movement in the mid-seventeenth century that someone who helped to formulate an effective compromise on a crucial and contentious constitutional issue should remain so obscure a figure . |
| 2 | Cool enough to wear a jacket at night . ’ |
| 3 | Still , I decided , there was n't much fear of Mrs Chapman accepting so insulting an offer . |
| 4 | And erm , he throws the corn on the cob , he goes inside gets a drink , eats some food cos there 's loads of food cos you know and he goes outside and he goes quick , quick , quick loads of food , loads of food , quick , come on , come on , come on , loads of food ! |
| 5 | IN : The new Commons stage will be graced by the actress , Miss Glenda Jackson , 55 , who produced sufficiently convincing a performance in her debut as an active Labour politician to stir Hampstead and Highgate . |
| 6 | Botswana , Malawi , Zambia and Zimbabwe have joined together to form an ivory marketing cartel . |
| 7 | Mistrust even more two leaves that have been joined together to fabricate a bifolium . |
| 8 | In May 1916 all the main peace organizations joined together to launch a petition calling for peace by negotiation . |
| 9 | Frequently too , people who live in a particular geographic location combine together to form a pressure group if their neighbourhood has been earmarked by government for the siting of , for example , a new motorway or nuclear power station or the dumping of nuclear waste which is considered to constitute a substantial threat to their safety and health . |
| 10 | The one who took the lead looked big enough and mean enough to relish a ruck if there was a chance of one . |
| 11 | Becker 's case was notable because he was captured by the widely-circulated photographs , but he argued that he had intended only to fire a warning shot . |
| 12 | If anything , he was a little nervous about his ability to sustain so demanding a role for fifty-two weeks . |
| 13 | Mr Mitterrand has rarely missed an occasion to underline Germany 's obligation to make amends by arranging joint ceremonies on Franco-German battlefields . |
| 14 | This chapter has traced the main phases in the history of International Relations as a discipline and has thereby set an agenda for the rest of the book . |
| 15 | And survival of the fittest has since become a slogan , it is nothing more , a slogan associated with Darwin . |
| 16 | Since that case was decided , the nature of constitutional guarantees has subtly changed in the constitution of the United Kingdom , which has since become a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights , Article 11 of which guarantees to citizens of the signatory countries a right to freedom of assembly . |
| 17 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |
| 18 | The group has since announced a reduction in staff of one-fifth and it has moved over completely to computer setting and direct input by journalists . |
| 19 | He had a large kidneyectomy for a slow-growing tumour in March last year and has since developed a secondary in his right lung . |
| 20 | Last year Dillons got John Mortimer on a holiday weekend , which was not good timing , but it has since made a niche for itself with local books . |
| 21 | Dr Alan Solomon graduated in Mathematics from Cambridge University , and has since pursued a career in Defence , Textiles , Oil and the Stock Exchange . |
| 22 | He formed the Foundation for Economic Trends ( FET ) that same year , which has since coordinated a stream of public actions designed to embarrass science and the corporations . |
| 23 | Founded by Reg Bolton in nineteen seventy six , he has since established a number of children 's circus groups throughout the country . |
| 24 | She has since told a dose friend : ‘ The night before the wedding I was very calm , deathly calm . |
| 25 | Barry has since acquired a video recording of the race and still gloats over it even now . |
| 26 | The reason for the move is that Phil took redundancy from BP when they announced that they were closing their Glasgow office and has since found a job with a Swedish oil company in London . |
| 27 | The other survivor , Bennett , crawled back and has since lain a cripple . |
| 28 | This has since had a spin-off effect as the BBC will be filming the centre and will give credit to Rentokil Retail Cleaning at Bristol . |
| 29 | Mr Adley has since had a letter from the deposed Mrs Thatcher , welcoming the eventual restoration of relations with Syria . |
| 30 | Richard Parkyn , a chartered accountant from Tiverton in Devon who has suffered from diabetes since childhood , has successfully completed a 750-mile bike ride from John O'Groats to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in just 10 days despite having his bike stolen in Kidderminster and suffering from increasingly sore knees . |