Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to avoid channelling out a wall , but would like to replace a single outlet with a double outlet , which can be a switched one , and will sit over the old position . |
| 2 | Livernash ( 1963 ) would even claim that the structure of bargaining in the United States has been primarily determined by union preferences and , unlike the situation in some European countries , employers appear to have exerted only a minimum positive influence . |
| 3 | The three front men appear to have worked out a rota so that when one of them tired of the constant leaping about he can take a breather while the other two step in and compensate with eye-catching leaps of their own . |
| 4 | Susceptibility to the toxic effects of paracetamol taken in overdose differs between people , which may explain why some patients survive having taken large amounts of paracetamol while others die having taken only a few tablets more than the eight tablets ( 4 g ) a day recommended by the manufacturers . |
| 5 | Will my hon. Friend — with his hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State , with whom I have corresponded on the matter — undertake to consider further how a housing association might help with the difficult and complex problem faced by owner-occupiers in Galmington in Taunton , whose homes were built in a non-traditional manner just after the war and who can not now sell those homes ? |
| 6 | Six out of 10 voters are still not buying and three weeks of slogging seem to have made not a jot of difference . |
| 7 | You seem to have filled in a few blank spaces for me . ’ |
| 8 | These changes seem to have occurred about a hundred years after the Cretan temples were rebuilt ; then , quite suddenly , in about 1600 BC , all the pottery at Phylakopi was Minoan in style . |
| 9 | Other prominent industrialists were involved in canal promotion , though as a group they seem to have provided only a small part of the necessary finance . |
| 10 | Some of the water-pipes in the town of Wilhelmshaven , Germany seem to have taken on a life of their own . |
| 11 | The picnics were originally for the printers " and their families " , but once large numbers of young women were employed , they seem to have taken on a more youthful atmosphere , and became good opportunities for courtship . |
| 12 | ‘ You are getting close to Ana and seem to have taken quite a responsibility on your shoulders . |
| 13 | Get cook to make up a tray of coffee will you ? ’ |
| 14 | But he said when you start paying money just into a building society and then lump sum this and lump sum that they tend to sort of then oh you know , what is actually going on here and they tend to start looking about a bit more . |
| 15 | The males do like to set up a territory , and minor skirmishes can break out between them if the tank is not large enough to allow two or three separate domains . |
| 16 | British ministers had assumed that Bonn 's preoccupation with the situation in East Germany might lead it to oppose any move to begin drawing up a new treaty for European monetary union . |
| 17 | We 've decided to set up a campaign to put pressure on the Government and we need someone to run the office . |
| 18 | As getting tiny clothes was a problem for us I 've decided to put together a pre-term pack to loan out to NCT members who find themselves in need of them . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I 've decided to stay on a bit to settle him . ’ |
| 20 | Erm you 've got to put up a show |
| 21 | I 've got to take up a new attitude with him . |
| 22 | She wants to run through them all and then you 've got to fill in a piece of paper on which three pieces you 'd like to do , and al you know , she wants the cheque and full details of what name to go on the certificate and that sort of thing . |
| 23 | no it 's not , mum says you 've got to fill in a form and say who 's talked and how old we are and |
| 24 | I 've got to pop upstairs a minute . |
| 25 | And we 've got to pick up a mare that Ibn Fayoud 's bought out there . |
| 26 | Now going back to administration , I 'd wade through , and it might say that the policy 's being delivered , so I 've got to set up a policy delivery call . |
| 27 | We 've got to set up a proper complaints procedure , so that people know how to complain about Social Services , although I doubt very much whether anybody would ever want to complain about Oxfordshire 's Social Services , and so on . |
| 28 | The interesting one is when we 've got take away a minus three , that 's the same as add the positive three , add plus three . |
| 29 | You 've got to know quite a lot about rhythm . |
| 30 | Yes that 's right which means in a way that you 've got to know quite a lot . |