Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days after , I sit in while an Australian journalist wearing a Wayne 's World baseball cap backwards interrogates the other two on this matter . |
| 2 | Give me a sit down and a good fucking stern talking to . |
| 3 | The sparrows fly away when a marauding pussy appears on the scene . |
| 4 | Detectives say more than a hundred thousand pounds worth of vehicles and parts have been recovered . |
| 5 | Detectives say more than a hundred thousand pounds worth of vehicles and parts have been recovered . |
| 6 | We realise also that a participatory communication between the leadership and the people is a prerequisite to a just and democratic social order in which effective accountability is the norm rather than the exception . |
| 7 | Classic build up and a classy finish from Nicky Summerbee . |
| 8 | So when I got there , it 's the swimming coach there and a uniformed inspector and a particular individual who came from Cambridge University ( quite a few of them came into the force at that time — in 1932 ) . |
| 9 | Developmentally , the results suggest either that a cortical pathway operates in normal newborns , or that an initially functional route direct to the NOT drops out in favour of cortical control at a very early stage . |
| 10 | Carefully reposition the bridge and press firmly until a small bead of glue appears around the edge . |
| 11 | Snails of the species Cepaea nemoralis , for example , usually die less than a hundred yards away from where they hatched . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that our talented children deserve better than a Labour council , let alone a Labour Government ? |
| 13 | On the revenue side it meant such devices as changing the weighting of the staff mix so that a greater proportion of unqualified staff were employed than might ideally have been desired . |
| 14 | With our minds clearly on strategy formulation , we shall then pick up again the debate about return on investment ( ROI ) begun in chapter 3 , but put aside until a better understanding of ‘ strategic fit ’ had been developed in chapter 4 . |
| 15 | Thirty percent thirty five percent if you earn more than a hundred |
| 16 | Orders are already pouring in for the American-made scarves and bandanas that heat up when a liquid-filled pad is microwaved is placed into a pouch . |
| 17 | As I watched , one of the engines cut out and a few seconds later I heard and saw the explosion , two or three streets away . |
| 18 | We show here that a different C/EBP-related factor , C/EBP δ/NF-IL6; β , is the major IL-6 induced protein interacting with IL-6REs in the nuclei of Hep3B cells . |
| 19 | The problems spread inland when a tidal surge up the River Bure caused the river to break its banks at Acle , flooding the main A47 Norwich to Great Yarmouth road leaving it impassable to traffic . |
| 20 | I hope too that a good many of us will with true Somervillian spirit defy the grey hairs and wrinkles and turn up to celebrate our golden anniversary for lunch at Somerville on Sunday September 29th 1991 . |
| 21 | Broken Promise is a collection of vivid personal accounts by ‘ endangered children ’ — and it conveys the reality and universality of the problems they face better than a hundred or more straight world development textbooks . |
| 22 | As a matter of fact , I 've only known it happen once when a new submarine was doing trials . |
| 23 | Now trick films were the sort of first visual magic that the cinema could produce and erm these , these films you would see for example a motor car disintegrate and then reassemble itself , this kind of thing , people 's clothes change , drop off and a new set of garments would come on , all this sort of thing , people 's faces would change , their environment would change , their chairs would collapse under them and rebuild themselves , this sort of thing which could be done relatively easily once you knew how to do it . |
| 24 | Day three — A last look round and a temporary farewell |
| 25 | Day three — A last look round and a temporary farewell |
| 26 | The variety of foreign bodies found in and around the genitalia is enormous , but , like the previously mentioned causes of urethritis , they make up but a small proportion of the cases of urethritis . |
| 27 | You settle down more quickly in a place you know rather than a new place where you need time to get used to the seating , the lighting , the visual distractions . |
| 28 | Delay rather than a deviant pattern to language development is reported and 3-year-olds have been found to be 5–8 months behind in their language norms ( Jerger et al . |
| 29 | Little wonder that the savage Saxons regarded Christianity as a Frankish method of suppression and control rather than a true religion in its own right . |
| 30 | Northern Goalfields , a 466-page labour of love by Brian Hunt , is a rich seam of statistical information , but dig deeper and a wonderful social and sporting history of the North-east emerges . |