Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If anyone is still watching this flat , they 'll be doing it casually : drive by twice a day , walk along the balcony maybe , see if the milk has been taken . |
| 32 | A naughty child will , in this respect , suffer from either a diminution of moral status or , if the fault becomes a seasoned trait , a bad reputation . |
| 33 | Like the desert after a flash flood , Freshers ' Fair is decorated by societies which bloom for just a day . |
| 34 | They can put the whole cheese out on the cheeseboard , again I suppose to just a portion going on the cheeseboard . |
| 35 | Eventually , one rat adopts a submissive posture and its squeaks lengthen to about a second each , while their pitch drops to about 30 000 hertz . |
| 36 | The Protestants are scarcely measurable and the Catholics ( 3pc ) amount to only a quarter of the proportion who went 20 years ago . |
| 37 | — From Adkin St Clements Office at the Plain Roundabout take the second exit into the Cowley Road proceed for approximately a quarter of a mile and turn left into Jeune Street . |
| 38 | Statajack was David 's first win for nearly a month and the big time could come with Seattle Rhyme who reappears against Derby third Silver Wizard and Jeune at Kempton on Saturday . |
| 39 | Go with only a note ? |
| 40 | accommodation at Manda 's , they had a chap go in there a rape one of the girls in there did n't they ? |
| 41 | No such action has been taken : the pilot projects apply to just a handful of catchments . |
| 42 | It 's cos you 've got the paper wet , go over there a bit |
| 43 | Now only three or four years later I 'd say of yeah we 're go to somewhere a bit quieter , so that kids can go to bed of a night time , we could have a apartment . |
| 44 | Treated this way they keep at least a month longer than unwrapped ones . |
| 45 | Leave for about an hour basting frequently . |
| 46 | Anyone who earns enough to pay national insurance contributions is either ‘ contracted-in ’ to SERPS or ‘ contracted-out ’ because they belong to either an employer 's scheme or a personal pension scheme . |
| 47 | If you are planning to do this yourself , start at least a fortnight before moving day . |
| 48 | Make sure you leave at least a page at the end of each question in case you suddenly g cos what can often happen is you 're writing the answer to one and you think , oh that relates to the earlier one . |
| 49 | Now , if any of you get terribly tense at the back of shoulders which we all seem to do nowadays , if you come for just a back and shoulder massage , we actually work on the back of the neck and along the shoulders using massage movements which helps to relax you , which helps to actually break down the lactic acid that builds up in the muscles that causes you pain . |
| 50 | We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing . |
| 51 | Then he turned towards Peggy , saying , ‘ Come in here a minute . ’ |
| 52 | that 's right he says this is Mark , he says come in here a minute , says will you move your car and he says no I wo n't move my car , he says this is a public area and my car is parked there I 've been , been into the shop and I 'm talking to my mates . |
| 53 | Come in here a minute Jean . |
| 54 | ‘ Come in here a bit , ’ she suggested as they came to her room , ‘ I 'd better tell you a secret . ’ |
| 55 | Little economies when they are added up , come to quite a lot of money each month . |
| 56 | Despite the mixed views on the issue , there does appear to be a consensus amongst a wide range of climbers that modern standards and trends now require at least an extension of the current system . |
| 57 | Such enterprises now account for more than 60 per cent of industrial employment in countries as far apart as Ghana and Tanzania ; more than half of them are located in small towns and villages , and the extended family is their most important source of labour ; they contribute at least a quarter of total manufacturing output ; and typically they employ between one and ten workers . |
| 58 | Corbetts , if you must , but the new bagging fashion is to find mountains that only the cognoscenti know and take at least a day 's walk to get into . |
| 59 | Could I also ask a question which you might be completely clear on , but I 'm not , when we do back checks on files and make sure they are all up to date and so on , we come across maybe a research approval which has n't been signed off in the right places , how far back in time do we need to get that signed off . |
| 60 | The feast over , both groups descend into the valley where they dance and sing for about an hour . |