Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simply nervous trainers tend to stand in one spot , feeted feet rooted like a tree to the ground . |
| 2 | He looked half determined , half afraid , as if I was a lion which he as assistant keeper was helping to escort from one zoo to another . |
| 3 | Many former rebels were expected to remain within two government development zones covering 25,000 sq km in the south region bordering the San Juan River , to be policed by 300 armed former contras . |
| 4 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 5 | I do n't know , maybe the time was better for making music than it is now , there was less touring , not this hysterical feeling that everyone needs to jump from one place to another , or the lure of too many good orchestras — maybe it 's true that there are now more good orchestras than good conductors . |
| 6 | In this discussion we want to concentrate on one aspect of marking : how the source file can be sent electronically to the marker and how the marker can make use of this electronic form . |
| 7 | This is an acceptable solution if we expect to concentrate on one form of arithmetic for a number of instructions , but if we are using several forms ( for example , floating-point calculations with address computation in fixed-point format ) then we have to change the contents of the mode register continually . |
| 8 | The ninety acres of entrancing if formalized beauty of the park , crossed by paths so convenient that they might have been purposefully designed to lead from one centre of power to another , must , he thought , have heard more secrets than any other part of London . |
| 9 | In this paper , I want to look at one kind of way in which some feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be ‘ autonomous ’ , and at the implications this has for ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 10 | Today 's athlete has to specialise in one discipline in one sport in order to achieve success at the highest level . |
| 11 | It may be impracticable and unrealistic in segmentation terms for a company to try to incorporate into one product all the benefits and costs sought by all potential customers . |
| 12 | A number of deaf men attempted to enlist for the Army , but many were rejected on grounds of deafness , including four who tried to enlist in one day at an enlisting station in Wales . |
| 13 | The effort of getting up the third and fourth flights , which I tried to manage in one go , muddled me somehow . |
| 14 | Inevitably , this reputation as a man of letters militated against his artistic reputation ; in England , you are expected to excel at one thing only , if that . |
| 15 | The relative contributions may be expected to vary from one city to another . |
| 16 | A valuable way of concealing them is to have bars , stripes or blobs of colour that appear to overflow from one section to the next , as though someone has splashed ink across the animal . |
| 17 | We want to settle in one school for a good period of time , because we have discovered how important are relationships , with both colleagues and classes , that have been built up and stood the test of time . |
| 18 | Like many conglomerates before them , South African giants , such as Anglo American , Rembrandt and Anglovaal , want to stay in one piece . |
| 19 | You will need to spray at three day intervals at least three or four times , but preferably over a period of several weeks to control any new pests as soon as they hatch , before they can reproduce . |
| 20 | He agreed to talk to I Lawrie regarding existing plans . |
| 21 | If the subject is instructed to attend to one ear and ignore the sounds coming into the other ear , all the sounds in the attended ear will produce an enhanced N100 component in the ERP . |
| 22 | The Muslims believe that the spot marks Adam 's punishment for disobedience and that here he was made to stand on one foot for a very long time . |
| 23 | All I had to do was stand around pretending to pull on one end of a tug-of war rope while a load of peers pulled on the other , as Jerry stood by attracting the tabloids ' photographers . |
| 24 | Here your training intensity is such that you are pushed to work for one minute , let alone the 20 required for aerobic training ! |
| 25 | In one instance a contract was made to sell to one purchaser a quantity of a given type of wine which exactly equalled the seller 's stock of it . |
| 26 | If a narrative can be said to progress from one equilibrium to another , with the initial stability disrupted by a particular event or force , then ‘ race ’ is frequently the power which produces disequilibrium in racial problem films of this period . |
| 27 | AND PLANS TO EMBARK ON THREE REFERENCE TECHNOLOGY SEARCHES THIS YEAR |
| 28 | Well , oh gosh , the team seemed to play in one way like , nine man rugby scrum , scrum and scrum half and that 's about it is n't it , probably was how we planned it . |
| 29 | The term ‘ ecology ’ could be used as an umbrella to cover a wide range of research traditions that did not interact at the detailed level , but which could be seen to deal with one aspect or another of the relationship between living things and their environment . |
| 30 | Everything seemed to point in one direction , but he was far from happy . |