Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In case we do have a hard winter however , it might be worth potting up a few and over-wintering them , if you have n't already saved some of last year 's generously produced and well-ripened seed . |
| 2 | Some of these claims can be considered , and either allowed or disallowed , only by looking at the work as a whole ; others can be at least understood after reading only a few lines : |
| 3 | This bright red bus is large and suitable for serving quite a few children . |
| 4 | ‘ Being used as cheap labour to break Alejandro 's ponies , ’ said Luke , taking Perdita 's suitcases from her , ‘ in return for picking up a few tips from the master . ’ |
| 5 | One question which has concerned psycholinguists for many years is why there exist in English ( and in other languages ) several alternative syntactic options ( or paraphrases ) for expressing essentially the same information . |
| 6 | Figure 3.3 shows that the Japanese ‘ transplants ’ in the USA have significantly better productivity and quality than their local rivals , despite using roughly the same wage rates for US labour . |
| 7 | But one day he made the mistake , at least from his point of view , of bringing along a few tapes of his favourite soul and reggae music . |
| 8 | It now makes perfect sense to give a remedy that is capable of bringing about the same or very similar healing responses , that is symptoms , to the healing response which is occurring in the patient as shown by his individual symptoms . |
| 9 | So again , erm a way of picking up a few marks , quite a few . |
| 10 | So we did n't have to go all the way to Lime Street , Liverpool , Chapman , with his characteristic attention to such details , had arranged for the train to make a special stop at Edgehill Station , to give us a better chance of getting home the same night . |
| 11 | Particularly where you 've more or less got the idea of it but you think you just want to sort of tidy up a few details an |
| 12 | No one was doing anything and I thought , ‘ Well , hell , I 'm guilty of doing exactly the same thing as everybody else is doing . |
| 13 | It costs $15 for adults and $7 for children for the excitement of running not a few miles . |
| 14 | Tonks was incensed about the Vichy venture , as were the NZRFU folk at home , everyone was embarrassed that they had no way of knowing where the All Black party were , what was involved in the game , and where next the travelling group might surface . |
| 15 | I did not , to be honest , think I would have much success — it 's not the sort of thing that I would have known all those years ago — but the idea of ringing up a few of my former colleagues was just irresistible . |
| 16 | And just sort of write down a few expression and then think ah that 's not right or yes that 's |
| 17 | But erm if we could sort of shout out a few of the brilliant ideas . |
| 18 | Dollo 's Law is really just a statement about the statistical improbability of following exactly the same evolutionary trajectory twice ( or , indeed , any particular trajectory ) , in either direction . |
| 19 | Do you really think that was a coincidence-gravity pulling on the Shuttle harder like that so both of you end up doing exactly the same thing ? |
| 20 | That kind of thing irked her , as did the difference in pay between women and men for doing practically the same work . |
| 21 | But they 're paid half as much as their continental colleagues for doing exactly the same job . |
| 22 | Before picking out a few of the research findings , which highlight short-comings , I should say that there was a great deal to commend and admire about the response to the Act from individual schools and authorities in very difficult circumstances , not the least of which was the failure of central government to provide any additional resources . |
| 23 | Channichthyid fish of antarctic waters , for example the icefish Champsocephalus aceratus , are unusual in possessing only a few erythrocytes ( red blood corpuscles ) as larvae and none as adults ; related species have much reduced erythrocyte counts throughout life . |
| 24 | At the time of weddings , a group of women and children came across the fields with baskets and scarves full of sweets and rice which they touched down under the holy tree to be blessed , before going back the same way they 'd come . |
| 25 | With bigger overheads , these have to charge economical fees and can often be undercut by the medium agencies in doing exactly the same programme of work . |
| 26 | Because comparison is generally more important in science than the determination of an absolute value , we are generally involved in observing either the same sample at two different points of time between which X occurs , or two different samples at the same point in time , only one having been subjected to X. |
| 27 | This year was unusual in having quite a few cool , cloudy days and some rain , though the final week was sunny and quite hot . |
| 28 | Spurs then started knocking the ball around nicely from the back and succeeded in creating quite a few gaps . |
| 29 | So much depends upon individual circumstances that little would be gained from cataloguing here the many court cases on this subject over the past century or so . |
| 30 | Clare asked Carolyn , casually , if she was interested in taking on a few hours a week . |