Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Words about words tend to float off into a mysterious space of their own — though I hope most of those we have used have been firmly pinned down .
2 Some of you might be thinking , well , I 'm never going to advocate , I never intend to go anywhere near a court .
3 I 've had two or three I think , very rarely do we find them and shapers tend to go out on a limb they tend to want to lead they tend to want to control they want people to follow their way they do tend to be the people that dig in and say you know this is the way we do it .
4 Well , on the centigrade scale that 's at minus two six nine approximately , but in fact we in physics tend to work always with an , what we call an absolute scale of temperature .
5 Despite all the things that happen to us , such as religious conversion , dreams , accidents , bereavement , psychological shock — all those things that pull us out of everyday reality — we tend to slip back to a belief that there is a bedrock of common sense and sensibility at the heart of things .
6 It is more like a slow process of sifting , in which , by a long series of stages , and with many pauses , grains of one kind tend to come together in a heap ’ .
7 You 're obviously more cautious than you were before , and erm a lot of kids now they tend to stand back for a while just in case 'cause you can never judge how fast they 're really going to go through there .
8 Mm well maybe , I mean to come up with a , a clear example .
9 ‘ I want to go back to a size 12 again .
10 I want to go back to a comment made by the hon. Member for Truro ( Mr. Taylor ) , which led the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) to go into a spate of incontinent muttering .
11 ‘ I — I just want to go below for a moment . ’
12 I want to go out for a ride in the open air . ’
13 Oh well might have perhaps will you have a spare day No I want to go out for a meal No , but I been home but at dinner time just .
14 You want to go out for a wee wee puss ?
15 But community leaders at the Asian Cultural Centre Association have condemned the violence which police say arose out of an argument between two Asian families .
16 Androgyny was expect to go along with a broad , flexible and effective repertoire of behaviours , and well-adjusted emotions .
17 The reason is that foreign companies want to come here for a highly trained and highly motivated work force who work for good British companies .
18 and go out and that , if you want to come down for a couple of days .
19 Want to come in for a minute ? "
20 In terms of progressing or taking part in the discussion , can I suggest that if you want to come in on a particular item , you put your name board up like that , so that we can readily observe it er and equally , our friend who is looking after the microphones can make sure that the vol the volume of your microphone is turned up at the appropriate time .
21 If you want to know more about a rug you already own , or simply want to develop a general interest in the subject , study the design schemes ( described in Chapter IV ) , and the characteristics of rugs from the various producing countries ( Chapter V ) .
22 A programme to clear the ground of weeds and leave the soil fit to rake down into a seed bed is simple to devise .
23 I hope we all want to help together as a team and support our already stretched full-time officials .
24 Subject : ‘ Youre going home in a Swedish Ambulance ’
25 Youre going home in a coma , home in a coma , youre going home in a coma ’
26 ‘ Youre going home in a coma , home in a coma , youre going home in a coma ’
27 I want to focus here on an ‘ affordable ’ way of reaching a maximum number of teachers with this aim , i.e. the group consultative training approach .
28 The basic assumption of geometric perspective is that although parallel lines never meet , they appear to do so at a vanishing point , on a distant backcloth .
29 Hawkwind rely extensively on a canon of work virtually unchanged since their mid-'70s ‘ Space Ritual ’ album .
30 However , the grouting can easily get discoloured and dirty-looking , so it might bc better to start off with a dark grouting from the beginning .
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