Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then a series of colours that took my fancy were thinned down with water and sprayed , or rather spattered using a mouth diffuser , over the colours I have previously applied . |
| 2 | CASS was also encouraging the development of part-time degrees , a policy which won an expression of DES approval for these and other CNAA efforts in this direction , since they would appeal to married women wishing to return to study ( and presumably helping to solve a shortage of school teachers ) . |
| 3 | I squeezed into a minute dining-room , where there were no TV sets and nervously tried to join a group of people . |
| 4 | In fact the dream that we all had about Great Britain acknowledging it 's theatre and funding it properly has suffered a lot of setbacks since the ‘ sixties ’ . |
| 5 | After the first eight days of action — during which 19 of his 31 officers were killed and seven wounded , and the battalion was reduced to 40 per cent of its original strength — he himself was badly wounded leading a counter-attack . |
| 6 | Arab peacemakers will presumably seek to find a successor to Muawad . |
| 7 | Arab peacemakers will presumably seek to find a successor to Muawad . |
| 8 | But this omission is a consequence of my claim that individualism is fundamentally designed to sustain a conception of individuals as agents . |
| 9 | Coun Dixon said the corporation 's support proves that Darlington is widely considered to have a housing crisis . |
| 10 | Dounreay has apparently given AECL a quotation and AECL is now considering it . |
| 11 | Sandwich was better situated to meet a threat from Scandinavia ; Wight , where Harold 's ships awaited William the Conqueror long and unsuccessfully in the summer of 1066 , implies a connection with the south or west , and perhaps particularly Normandy . |
| 12 | The corollary is that some areas will be better placed to initiate a shift away from the isolated role of special schools . |
| 13 | From his present position , Larsen would be better placed to keep a lookout for trouble and provide backup . |
| 14 | As Dysart 's employee and Mallender 's daughter , who could be better placed to smell a rat ? ’ |
| 15 | Yeah he said , but the girl that was with him said that you were very highly honoured to have a letter that length cos usually she gets dear oh I her name 's what her but dear whoever , got loads to tell you , love Mario . |
| 16 | So she said you 're highly honoured to have a letter that long . |
| 17 | Outside investors are apparently clamouring to have a share of the service , which is expected to launch later this year . |
| 18 | Baldwin merely intended to fly a policy kite at Plymouth . |
| 19 | This short chapter is only intended to offer a taste of the topic . |
| 20 | I did n't personally think having a piano on the back of a truck was much use either , but it looked good and gave the band somewhere to balance their beer cans . |
| 21 | Or , if that person buys you a gift voucher and you do n't necessarily want to have a treatment that states on the gift voucher , you can come and exchange it for products . |
| 22 | Mme Fournier was still in the car , she called out that she had only come to deliver a message . |
| 23 | If he only wants to use a part-pack , the operator pulls the lever to suck neat chemical into the transparent tube . |
| 24 | For all the talk about creating a club vibe , in Texas the audience have basically come to see a gig . |
| 25 | In this case , the agent only needs to see a ticket manifest ( a government-stamped document showing how many tickets are printed for the venue ) and a box office statement from the hall ( stating how many tickets were sold ) when checking the promoter 's expenses . |
| 26 | She only needs to make a token 1500 metres or 3,000 metres appearance in the main trials meeting , in Birmingham on June 27 and 28 , to claim her Olympic team place alongside world champion Liz McColgan . |
| 27 | And yet this awareness does not need to take any of our precious time ; it merely needs to become a part of what we are doing anyway . |
| 28 | It is not that she 's a political animal , just someone who has seen a lot of beautiful places in the world ; feels very fortunate to be in such a privileged position because of her successful TV and recording career , and so wants to put a bit back into a world which has so far been very kind to her . ’ |
| 29 | Too much bother to fetch a raincoat . |
| 30 | She encouraged the rich to take holidays within Iran , so tried to foster a sense of Iranian culture and a national pride among a people notoriously liable to succumb to self-pity and paranoia . |