Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As usual it will be less well-off smokers who suffer most as a disproportionate amount of their income will be swallowed up in tax . ’ |
| 2 | Just over two million of our pupils sit down to a knife-and-fork meal at midday . |
| 3 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 4 | On Saturday nights around 30 people sit down to a four-course SE Asian banquet . |
| 5 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
| 6 | Basically , I just sit down with a little Pignose amp and a tape recorder and play all night . ’ |
| 7 | When it begins to set , splash a little water on to it , and rub gently with a pointing trowel in a circular motion , to smooth flush , leaving little or no sanding . |
| 8 | They sit together in a non-smoking section . |
| 9 | It 's hard to be one of the boys when the boys unite only against a common enemy and at the moment that is oneself . |
| 10 | The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly as the marchers and their supporters wind down after a hard day . |
| 11 | Take 1 hour to bring the solution slowly to simmering point , simmer gently for a further hour . |
| 12 | Turn into a lightly floured board and knead gently for a few minutes . |
| 13 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 14 | Unless your home is totally dilapidated , steer clear of a complete redecoration prior to selling : it will arouse suspicion . |
| 15 | Along the shore , two and a half miles of golden sands slip slowly into a warm , blue sea where visitors can swim , sail and wind-surf . |
| 16 | We therefore divided the periodogram values by the best-fit power law ( see Table1 ) , and binned the results so that the QPO features would on average appear mostly in a single high-valued bin . |
| 17 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 18 | The heroes you have kind of linger on from a prior period when only a few records passed through your life , when you had the time to get fixated , spend weeks living inside a record . |
| 19 | Our first aim , therefore , is to isolate significant typical events and units of social life and activity , and then to probe for the underlying blueprint , often implicit rather than explicit , that will show how they fit together into a meaningful pattern . |
| 20 | Westwood offers an account of how the structures of gender , ethnicity and class fit together for a specific group of women workers . |
| 21 | Einstein was driven to this idea not so much by the experimental results as by the desire to make two parts of the theory fit together in a consistent whole . |
| 22 | They grow opposite on a dark green , purple-tinged stem . |
| 23 | These grow naturally as a single , vertical stem and need absolutely no pruning . |
| 24 | but the melt down of a cast-iron relationship |
| 25 | When we 're talking to the people on the phone we home in on a thousand pound . |
| 26 | Home in on a particular aspect . |
| 27 | Maybe Bunny could learn to moonlight on a mainframe somewhere and tap in to a whole new reference work of nubile young ladies . |
| 28 | Cook gently for a further 10 minutes then break the fish into bite-size pieces . |
| 29 | 2 Add the garlic , tomatoes , thyme and green beans and cook gently for a further 5–7 minutes . |
| 30 | Cook gently for a further 10 minutes , turning the carrots all the time . |