Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] a [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 Right , yes , it is important you see is n't it ? , because one of things that happens also I think is , is that we tend to see a motorway and we tend to see a call one side it , and a call the other side , and work on the assumption that we can actually get across the motorway there , or under the motorway there , but sometimes you ca n't can you ?
2 say make a wood'un and ice it .
3 It rather resembles a Victorian village school in outline ( or perhaps Victorian village schools resemble it ! ) , with its steep roof and dormer windows looking like belfries ; you fully expect to see a vicarage and church in the same style hovering nearby .
4 I want to find a hole and crawl into it , to escape this ultimate psychic double-whammy .
5 Think of all those women who long to bear a child and are unable . ’
6 The depute procurator-fiscal , Sandra McRobert , told the court that the major police operation began after Say phoned a relative and a neighbour , telling them his wife had left him and that he intended to commit suicide .
7 Here Forgive 'N Forget made a mistake and handed the initiative to Wayward Lad , but he was very tired and started to wander to the left towards the rails .
8 Dad says he will get me more Meccano at Christmas , but I want to buy a pulley and those thick flange-plates in Wylie Hills on Saturday when I get my pocket money . ’
9 As casualties occur you can remove any of the models fighting and replace them with any models from a rearward rank — so you can change the ratio of nets to clubs by , say removing a club and replacing it with a net .
10 I 'm in the middle of a government grant on my house and by the time I get that together and spending money , which I should n't be doing , on junk , y'know , and I want to start a family and that , y'know , and try and be respectable , but it just does n't seem to be available under this health service , this National Health Service , although I do know people who have it prescribed .
11 But privately both BBC and UTV want to score a KO and topple the other from the ratings .
12 Is it possible , supposing you decide you want to have a look and see how well the two o'clock showing if there is one as such
13 ‘ I want to be a novelist , but first I want to get a degree and ffeatherstonehaugh 's makes that possible . ’
14 We should listen to how people actually want to make a contribution and base our structures on their views , instead of rather male structures which demand substantial commitment .
15 Now when I look back on that part of my life , I want to make a film and call it The Loneliness of the Long Distance Latent Lesbian .
16 why we want to make a success and he do n't lose it all !
17 Absolutely they 're reading it with you so they 're with you so you 're you 're holding their interest even though you 're not actually saying anything , yeah , and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once you 've once you 're written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once I once I put the red lines around the red boxes round there and I gave you the first demonstration of the Aldershot method I stood here okay .
18 A World Cup final is the wrong time and place to prove a point and the English management must take the blame for letting the press and the Australians sucker them into self destruction .
19 I 'm a very new driver so I 'm very careful and very cautious , not a very good pedestrian , I tend to wave a fist and walk out whereas I always give the other person , you know I always sort of wave them on whereon in the car being a very new driver I am very cautious
20 ‘ We hope to find a Country and Western group and we 'll be serving hot dogs and hamburgers . ’
21 To help with their endowment fund , the Royal Holloway also hope to sell a Constable and Gainsborough from the remaining 76 works decorating their walls .
22 Worried that the Colonel might leap into army talk for which he had neither the preparation nor the inclination , Hope let flow a hand and beckoned in all about them .
23 WORTHING in West Sussex are organising a fortnight of varied activities for all ages ; whilst in East Sussex , Hastings and Bexhill continue this impetus by holding an Open Day on September 20th sponsored by the Hastings Observer for youngsters aged from seven to 15 at the William Parker School where they hope to build a clubhouse and share club and school facilities .
24 Stop making a mock and a jeer out of other people 's business . ’
25 Apart from a ten year break to raise a family and one other short break , Jean has also worked continuously , mostly as a Spool Setter and then as a Colour Counter , calculating the percentage and number of colours used in each new design .
26 Broken in half match stick a shell and a stone
27 I know that many anglers swear that barbel dominate a swim and force the chub to evacuate the area when they commence feeding .
28 In Spain , the paradox of Europe is that it is both the whip to modernise Spain by destroying structures of corporatism , grandeur and clericalism that held back the country for centuries , and , at the same time , it demands enormous sacrifices paid by the poor as Solchaga and Gonzáles seek to achieve a capitalism and productivity equal to levels set in northern Europe .
29 Conversely we are not sensitised to the possibility of sociocultural differences between the sexes , because they seem to share a culture and a history in common , living as they do in close proximity .
30 And you just never you never you never play football you never enjoy having a game and things like that so .
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