Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " . |
| 2 | Wash and dry the leaves and tear them into a salad bowl . |
| 3 | According to Nicholas Clee , from the bookseller J Whitaker and Sons in London , any writer planning to embark on such a book would be advised to create a family living in rural bliss with a gaggle of children then land them in a crisis , preferably involving the central character in an affair with an older/younger man/woman . |
| 4 | The EC can neither reverse current trends nor bring them to a halt . |
| 5 | At one time , the officers if they saw the girls soliciting , used to arrest them , bring them to a police station , they 're finger print , photographed and dealt with . |
| 6 | ‘ Just go and lose yerself for a week , son . |
| 7 | When will the right hon. Gentleman give that consistency and leadership to the police and back them for a change ? |
| 8 | And wrapt me in a gown . |
| 9 | Perhaps we could instigate a national drive to recycle on a grand scale — from restaurants , BR etc — and sell them as a peat alternative ! |
| 10 | laughing up their sleeves , ca n't even bloody sell anything , but sell them at a profit . |
| 11 | " We sell them for a penny each , " Miss Poraway explained . |
| 12 | Haymarket had intended to set up a computer business with over 20 staff to build its own PCs under the brand Eyecon and sell them through a dealer network . |
| 13 | Dinner I boil myself just a few potatoes , and I eat them with a piece of bread … |
| 14 | ‘ Do please change me into a wolf , Mr Bilsiter , ’ said Mrs Hampton during lunch on the day of his arrival . |
| 15 | If you 've forgotten to buy a card and the shops are all closed , simply cut out some funny or pretty pictures from magazines , paste them onto a piece of card and then write your own personalised message inside . |
| 16 | You should be able to buy these books at a bookshop or borrow them from a library . |
| 17 | ‘ Bring me in a cuppa , Debbie , will you ? ’ |
| 18 | Raise them to a power , then you do multiply . |
| 19 | Add them when you 're multiplying , times them when you raise them to a power , so we do n't want to start changing this to one over and things , because we 'll lose that easy way of doing things . |
| 20 | Gather together favourite recipes , make them into a booklet and sell for funds . |
| 21 | First you mix the dough , then you pat it into shape , like a figure in a Nativity crib , with all his fingers , and little fingernails , you make them with a toothpick , and his face , not forgetting ears and nostrils and eyebrows , and you put in his navel , making a little indentation , and you roll some dough for his thingamajig . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ They are based on a freelance design and one of the main things was make them with a view to easy maintenance , ’ explained Mr Blackhurst . |
| 23 | To solve a problem the student must recall the relevant concepts and rules and combine them in a way that satisfies the principles of good practice . |
| 24 | Three children , aged between four and seven , scream as uniformed East Berlin police drag them and their mother off and push them into a lorry as they stand outside the US embassy in East Berlin , hoping desperately to get inside . |
| 25 | When they did n't have a gang to fight they 'd run after me , take off my trousers and hide them in a bush . |
| 26 | If you introduce them before a year old , do not give them every day . |
| 27 | ‘ We display them on a kind of rotation system , ’ he told her . |
| 28 | Canon says that Still Video is an ideal medium for multimedia presentations because users can mix photographs , text and graphics on a computer , record them on a still video disk and display them on a TV . |
| 29 | The EDFAX documentations states that the program allows users to compose and edit teletext pages of information store pages of information on disk recall pages of information from disk and display them on a screen create a local electronic magazine , database or notice board develop artistic and creative skills relating to the presentation of information develop language and communication skills gain an understanding of the videotext display format . |
| 30 | The map user can select features of interest from the digital map and display them in a way that is suited to his or her requirements . |