Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Presumably , this is what moths are doing when they fly into a candle and are burnt to death . |
| 32 | At the outer rim of awareness , the known and declared nationalists fade into a host that have still to declare themselves . |
| 33 | ‘ Oh , reasonably , ’ I say with a smile and turn back to my work . |
| 34 | Whereas if someone who is normally very placid and kind became ill , say with an earache and at the same time became irritable and bad tempered , then this would be a highly significant symptom . |
| 35 | The Geste brothers are stereotypes and may be laughed at with impunity : but Charles Wogan , as A. E. W. Mason saw him in Clementina , and the ingenuous John Ridd , self-revealing narrator of Lorna Doone , exemplify the intricacies of love and honour in a way that transcends period and social niceties . |
| 36 | The age of trees can easily be calculated if they grow in an environment where there are distinct seasons . |
| 37 | Place the grated orange rind , cheese and yogurt in a bowl and beat together . |
| 38 | The ordinary hyphen is used between words that are hyphenated wherever they appear in a line and when those words would be split by a line-ending at the hyphen-point : eg well-known , time-consuming , up-to-date . |
| 39 | In general , serial ports are where you plug in a mouse or a modem , and you attach your printer to a parallel port . |
| 40 | Yes , wind them round and this should , should generate a charge which rang bells and sounded bells and then er you lift up a telephone and plug in a jack and , and take a message in that way . |
| 41 | For lips that stick , and a crisper outline ( less ageing than a fuzzy one ) , outline lips with lip pencil in a shade that matches your lipstick . |
| 42 | Come down and snooze in a garden when I am a dragon , an ocean-lurking , sky-flying free dragon ; when the mother wind that keeps the world spinning caresses my scales as I fly across the moon and bring warnings and hopes to the fiery heart of the world ; when I can dance aloft at dawn , so that the rising sun turns my every scale to a pure diamond and the tides and rhythms of the oceans slow down in delight . |
| 43 | A sound currency is one of the things that people expect from a government that is working well . |
| 44 | A high pitched shriek or cry in a tossing or stuporose child . |
| 45 | Pearce Developments have refused to comment , but docks management company , Ash and Co , say in a statement that promotion remains a key element and adding that there are many retailing successes in the docks . |
| 46 | Think how often , say in a meeting or discussion , you have a point of view that you want to persuade other people to agree with or adopt . |
| 47 | Drain the leeks and place in a liquidiser or food processor with the green chillis and the brine . |
| 48 | Cool the chicken stock , then place in a blender or food processor with the flesh of the avocados , half the green chillis and a little salt and pepper . |
| 49 | Strain the liquid into a bowl and place in a refrigerator until it begins to thicken . |
| 50 | Process in a blender or processor until smooth ; then rub the soup through a sieve to remove the pea skins . |
| 51 | Underlining : Never underline in a release as this is a printing instruction to set in italics . |
| 52 | In the first place , by 1986 , teachers and other educational staff had seen the purchasing power of their salaries slip to a half or a third of their 1980 value . |
| 53 | I dare say someone could cross a road with the best of intentions — to help an old lady perhaps , or to look at a fruit-shop — then slip on a banana-skin and cause a perfectly horrible accident . |
| 54 | The concepts which it assumes as self-evident , until persistent failure to solve a problem calls attention to them , appear to an outsider as strange metaphorical structures to be examined and re-examined as he learns to find his way around the conceptual scheme . |
| 55 | Whether the words are printed , typed or handwritten ; whether they appear on a screen or on different types and qualities of paper ; whether a ‘ text ’ occurs as a separate item , as part of an academic journal , or in a book or an encyclopaedia ; how the page is laid out , the extent to which it is broken up by illustrations , headings , and the use of different typefaces . |
| 56 | test on a car and stated on the notification of refusal of a certificate that the car 's tyres were suffering from ‘ tread lift . ’ |
| 57 | They were made of diamonds , not gold , but I wore them when I want to a ball and never felt my immortal soul in danger because of that . |
| 58 | Yet if they report to a GP or social worker with complaints about this , they risk being written off as neurotic middle-aged women . |
| 59 | ‘ Knock on a door and ask for shelter ? ’ |
| 60 | It is no surprise they all have bright red noses , for their two great loves are tobacco and whisky ; they rarely appear without a pipe and are known to raid cellars , particularly favouring homemade ale . |