Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a teenager , Souness trained with Celtic and was waiting with a friend to catch a late bus home . |
| 2 | Taking a long-distance call still causes a certain turbulence here . |
| 3 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 4 | Of the two Opens Sandy never looked like winning until the end ; Seve had it won a long way away . |
| 5 | Anyway Leicester have won a free kick midway inside the Forest half . |
| 6 | BELOW You can develop the sit and stay routine with the dog off the leash , walking a considerable distance away before calling the dog to you . |
| 7 | In Edinburgh at the time , there were various schools which might come under this heading , including the Merchant Company schools which provided a good education originally for children of humble backgrounds , but increasingly for middle-class children . |
| 8 | Given that the re-editing of the film reduced the number of title cards from 300 to 80 , it is reasonable to assume that Woolf 's intervention considerably improved the film , and that Woolf 's commercial experience provided a valuable lesson both for Hitchcock and Balcon . |
| 9 | I like to try a different pace very year to see what it 's like . |
| 10 | For example , launching a new perfume worldwide now costs an extravagant $50m . |
| 11 | Several teacher 's books suggest a final move away from the situation portrayed on the video to other , similar situations . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , Eadwine 's overtures to Eadbald for the hand of his sister Aethelburh ( HE 11 , 9 ) suggest a northern ruler already prestigious in his own right . |
| 13 | We shall know a great deal more about such matters in two or three years ' time , if money can be raised to commission an end-of-the-century version of The Architect and his Office . |
| 14 | Well , at least one good thing would come out of this trip , she decided philosophically — she would know a great deal more about Denmark 's capital city by the time she returned to England . |
| 15 | Workmen alerted police after noticing a red car apparently abandoned in the quarry on the Horseshoe Pass between Llangollen and Ruthin . |
| 16 | It would need a major rethink both on operational employment and training . |
| 17 | ‘ Forgive me , Chieh Hsia , ’ he had said , ‘ but you will need a new general now . ’ |
| 18 | do we need a small towel actually in the overnight bag ? |
| 19 | ‘ You 'll need a considerable sum yet to complete this project . |
| 20 | Provide a sinking food specially for your catfish . |
| 21 | ARTS provision in north-east Essex entered a new era yesterday with the first meeting of a trust to promote painting and sculpture in the area . |
| 22 | THE UGLY industrial dispute at Timex entered a new chapter yesterday with the abrupt departure of company president Peter Hall . |
| 23 | THE UGLY industrial dispute at Timex entered a new chapter yesterday with the abrupt departure of company president Peter Hall . |
| 24 | Stephen entered a short time later , looking anxious . |
| 25 | Mrs Austin claimed 1,000 people had signed a petition opposing the new building work and promised a fiery meeting tonight . |
| 26 | The Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , promised a considered review rather than a knee-jerk reaction to the atrocity after his hour-long meeting yesterday with Warrington 's two Labour MPs , Doug Hoyle and Mike Hall . |
| 27 | The second language list , which included those languages other than the ‘ major ’ EC languages , should rather be seen as representing a major step forward in the recognition of the importance of , for example , Urdu . |
| 28 | How dreadful it would be if you hooked a big fish only to lose it through poking around with an inadequate net . |
| 29 | On broader questions , like physics-and-biology , our understanding is considerably less and complementarity is in danger of becoming a descriptive catchword rather than an interpretative principle . |
| 30 | The deal , which was agreed by the two airlines in January after BA had pulled out of its original proposed $750 million link-up with USAir in December , confirms the strong negotiating position BA has always been in and puts its aim of becoming a global airline firmly back on course . |