Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He appeared to recognize Stephen as quickly as Stephen recognized him , but the dark wedge face registered this only in a tightening of the mouth and a jerk of the chin . |
| 2 | To a large extent , Bolinger 's division between those adjectives that qualify referents and those that qualify sense is presented as if it were a classification of adjectives as word types , that is , as one might find them categorized in the dictionary , thereby giving an impression that Bolinger might regard this almost as a lexical division , similar to that dividing adjectives that can qualify animates from the rest . |
| 3 | Who wants that apart from a few wildly unrepresentative fanatics ? |
| 4 | The boatman inspected this critically for a moment , but then , unlike Owen , seemed satisfied . |
| 5 | Whereas ‘ Red Hot And Blue ’ had a hefty thematic strain , ie Cole Porter songs revisited , nothing really holds this together except a certain sagging trendiness . |
| 6 | To know this much about a student is better than nothing . |
| 7 | When the smoke really thins out , thin blue smoke , rap on it , give the whole tin a shake and it 'll suddenly burst into thick smoke for a few minutes and it may do that again for a second time . |
| 8 | She could n't do that again for a while , she had to be on duty over Christmas as it was . |
| 9 | I promised myself I 'd never smoke again and I did n't often do that twice in a morning . |
| 10 | But I , does but when you say that now though , cos I , he slagged Kirsty off to me , he just said oh she 's just really pretentious and she 'll , she 'll talk to you and then as soon as someone cooler comes in the room she 'll turn round and she 'll completely ignore you and you 're left and she 'll do that like at a dinner party or something and you 're left standing there feeling a real id you know , you know that feeling do n't you when you 're talking to someone and suddenly they desert you and you 're all on your own in a room ? |
| 11 | Now you know , wi with lots of experts in this field and so we 're we only simply put that forward as a , a general suggestion whether it should be one-third from them and two- thirds from the pension funds , you know , I do n't think is a matter of great importance to us , but we do think that the should perhaps be a bit spread , spread a bit more widely than just into the pension funds . |
| 12 | Printer port or something I 've never seen that before on a menu |
| 13 | Haney and Ullmer ( 1970 ) note that the modern American generation will have viewed , on average , 15,000 hours of television , attended 500 motion pictures and spent approximately 11,000 hours in class by the end of their school careers , and put this forward as a reason for using television and film very much more in the classroom . |
| 14 | Move right to a corner and climb this steeply to a ledge — belay here . |
| 15 | Having said this now about a hostile environment . |
| 16 | It seems obvious that you should buy the most powerful motherboard that you can afford but do n't make the mistake of buying something out of keeping with the re-used components or you will be looking to replace those too in a few months ! |
| 17 | yeah I 've seen those before like a |
| 18 | I 've been told that before by a hypnotherapist . |
| 19 | where did you see this then in a magazine or something ? |
| 20 | Weber admits that a common market situation may provide a basis for collective class action but he sees this only as a possibility . |
| 21 | But the thing is we were all really I mean thing I 'd we 've all nearly in a state of undress anyway . |
| 22 | There once was a bear , an ugly and deformed creature , who hit from the world and lived all alone in a wood . |
| 23 | Does he not think that , with a general election coming , if he is confident in his position , the least that he could do would be to put that forward in a general election so that at least people will have an opportunity to give a view before they are committed by the right hon. Gentleman 's signature of a treaty of this magnitude ? |
| 24 | The public transport network should also be improved to encourage people to use this instead of a car and a park and ride system might be introduced to keep traffic out of the centre . |
| 25 | PaT hope to do this partly by a Private Members Bill in the autumn which will : |
| 26 | Hyde mentions a program that can automatically provide precis of news stories , but does not point out that it can attempt to do this only for a restricted range of stories . |
| 27 | My legs get all tingly after a bit on account of how I 'm sitting , but I do n't move . |
| 28 | We will develop this further at a later stage . |
| 29 | Suddenly he shoved this aside with a groan , snatched up a clean sheet of paper , he wrote : |
| 30 | I state this only as a general and not as an invariable premise because of the possibility of cases in which the court would not authorise treatment of a distressing nature which offered only a small hope of preserving life . |