Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Every three months , the heads of department and managers sit in and discuss the benefits of what we are doing and how we can make improvements . |
| 2 | Make sure you sit down and fill the form in every evening , after your child has gone to bed , and try to be objective . |
| 3 | ‘ I would say , just sit down and tell a good story , and to hell with the morality , ’ Allan Ahlberg declares . |
| 4 | First sit down and make a list of your plus and minus points . |
| 5 | tried to do joined writing , apparently we are supposed to do that as teachers , actually said got ta put their primary on primary education , it says sit down and write a poem in joined up writing and look at your own writing and before you try to teach it to children make sure that you know |
| 6 | ‘ Hello , Piper , you are a little bit late for a bit of breakfast but sit down and have a mug of tea . ’ |
| 7 | Anyway , when it all gets too much and you ca n't bear the thought of writing another Christmas card or eating another mince pie just sit down and have a quiet read of your NCT newsletter ! |
| 8 | If not , sit down and have a chat with your child ; but not at a time when feelings are running high . |
| 9 | ‘ Sit down and have a cup of tea by here with us . ’ |
| 10 | Sit down and have a drink . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ So sit down and have a drink , Zlorf , and let's talk about this sensibly . |
| 12 | If I get home at 12.30 I probably wo n't want to go down a club , but I 'll pull a beer out of the fridge , sit down and have a laugh at everybody else making pillocks of themselves , including the prat who calls him self the Hitman . |
| 13 | You sit down and have a rest , and we 'll pop in the chemist and get some Calpol , cos we 're running out . |
| 14 | I very rarely sit down and have a meal now . |
| 15 | the people , because you know normally if a student comes to see me , I sit down and have an hour and half 's discussion |
| 16 | Just sit down and watch a ruddy tape you know and |
| 17 | When they think they know , they can ask one of their friends and , as soon as they guess correctly , they sit down and watch the fun as the others seek out their own identity . |
| 18 | Spooky , it 's spiritual , it 's like re-in I often believe in re-incarnation when you hear stories like that , how can someone just sit down , little child sit down and play the violin . |
| 19 | Sit down and read the instructions fully . |
| 20 | But the next time this happens , instead of hurling buckets of water , switch on a tape recorder and then , the next day , sit down and enjoy the feline opera at your leisure . |
| 21 | Come rain , come winter evenings , sit down and enjoy the narrative and sound instruction in this holiday adventure . |
| 22 | As there will be no catch in this chaos we simply reel in and watch the merry-go-round . |
| 23 | Go on Boo out , do something dog , go and lay down and have a bark |
| 24 | Transfer to the cake drum , press on and trim the edges . |
| 25 | Lay the sinker plate down on the edge of a table , press down and turn the screw in a sharp , snapping movement — try not to ‘ chew up ’ the head of the screw . |
| 26 | Even if you have a technician on call to deal with equipment it is a very good idea to teach yourself how to set up , plug in and check the obvious things when something goes wrong . |
| 27 | With experienced viewers there was not only a high degree of involvement in watching the work ‘ … melt down and become an object with a life of its own ’ ( Hyman , 1968 ) but also a strength and honesty of feeling that outweighed any more general sense of like or dislike . |
| 28 | That people delight in and desire the excitement and sensual pleasure found in sexual contact , food , bathing and money is an essential and straightforward assumption made in the fabliaux . |
| 29 | nip down and get a loaf yeah |
| 30 | Rub lightly with medium grade steel wool ; dust off and apply a final coat of varnish , finishing in the direction of the wood grain |