Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He opens three cans deftly with a penknife and pours the lot — mushroom soup , wieners , white beans — into a pot which he places on the fire while holding a small flashlight in his mouth . |
| 2 | And at seven thirty , Karen found herself sipping sherry in a borrowed frock and shaking fingers politely with a lawyer and his wife , whom she disliked quite intensely after fifty seconds . |
| 3 | Reproachfully , Rosa dipped into the deep pot of olives and served a scoop of the waxy jade pebbles on to a dish and set it near Tommaso . |
| 4 | She dipped her fingers delicately into a dish and , to my astonishment , popped a morsel of food into my mouth instead of into her own . |
| 5 | The speed of transmission varies from 6 minutes down to a matter of seconds per A4 page , depending on the type of fax machine used . |
| 6 | Another possibility for the seminar is that if you want to bring some notes along to a sort of , if you show me a if you dream up hypothetical questions and then put a plan to answer them so that I can skim down it in about a minute or two . |
| 7 | In mid-December the settlers were forced to leave one of the houses in after a court ruled against the eviction of the Arab occupants . |
| 8 | ( A table of retail indices together with a table showing the value of the £ at various dates will be found in Appendix E. ) |
| 9 | The payback on Visa and Access is growing as people try to keep running debts down to a minimum . |
| 10 | If injury or sickness is sustained and medical attention is received , you should if possible , pay and obtain receipted accounts together with a certificate showing the nature of the injury or sickness . |
| 11 | I was pleasantly surprised at how light the detector was , for when I have the free time to get out , I like to put as many hours in at a stretch as possible . |
| 12 | His fingers stirred lazily against her skin , and she clamped her teeth together over a gasp . |
| 13 | Jay trembled and clamped her teeth together on a chill sip of wine , the kiss of alcohol meaningless on the tight-lipped blues . |
| 14 | Life With Lyle by Sandy Lyle 's caddie , Dave Musgrove , breaks the mould , being a record , kept by Musgrove , of their times together during a period when Lyle won three events in America , including the US Masters , and three events in Europe , including the World Match Play Championship . |
| 15 | If you just knit two yarns together without a plating feeder , sometimes one yarn will be on the purl side and sometimes the other . |
| 16 | As a first step in turning out a molecule of sugar ( which has six carbon atoms in it ) they are content to link three CO2 molecules together into a proto-carbohydrate . |
| 17 | Civilization , that is , human societies , goes further than just linking family groups together through a set of work tasks that they have in common . |
| 18 | Sexual intercourse which is forced by a threat to strangle the victim or to beat her senseless ranks only as a Category 3 offence if no weapon is used . |
| 19 | finish that picture I want to put your pyjamas on in a minute |
| 20 | But there 's some nice pictures on in a bit . |
| 21 | Pin the angled offcuts from the legs on to a scrap piece of wood to make an excellent cradle for planing and also for clamping blocks . |
| 22 | At lunchtime , when everyone was brewing up , the navigator plotted all those little legs on to a map . |
| 23 | We did indeed use our cars rather like a TV set . |
| 24 | Lift the triangles on to a baking sheet . |
| 25 | If you 're desperate for storage space it 's often possible to build units right around a window so that the window acquires a recessed effect and becomes an essential part of the arrangement . |
| 26 | Having first transferred the shapes on to a piece of tracing paper , I find it easiest to almost trace the designs on to the cake , piercing through the outlines into the icing at regular intervals with a special cake scriber , or a sharp pin . |
| 27 | Since it may be appropriate to vote funds piecemeal to a project in order to control the financial risk involved , several columns for estimates should be provided . |
| 28 | Since it may be appropriate to vote funds piecemeal to a project in order to control the financial risk involved , several columns for estimates should be provided . |
| 29 | What Alianor had failed to realize was that , under the sombre cloak , she was wearing a new and quite beautiful pale-pink gown trimmed with dark fur — a gown such as few maidservants would set eyes on in a lifetime , much less wear . |
| 30 | With Holderness being very flat land it was often swampy and wet , so people originally tended to build their homes somewhere on a hill . |