Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past six years , however , she had done little more than declare things open , or say a few words of thanks in public . |
| 2 | It , it 's also a chain , from what you 're going on about , people regarding the service , I mean everyone 's had a bit , not just the erm , it , it 's the purchase managers more than the er , people who pay our premiums , they are just in time and we stood up to be shot at if we do n't pay the service , or put a big ones maybe , they 'll have half a carton of raw material left for that machine , so they 'll order an item for tomorrow morning , well they 're not to blame for the service , T N T's to blame for the service if we do n't get it erm , |
| 3 | Hotels shelter discreetly among refreshing pine trees or beside sumptuous sandy shores , and everywhere there is an opportunity to relax , to enjoy a wide variety of watersports or to play a few rounds at the 18-hole Is Molas Golf Club . |
| 4 | But settling a potential employment dispute tends to involve rather more than just signing a letter prepared by the company or initialling a few sheets of paper which explain the agreed terms . |
| 5 | Would his lungs bake , and his eyes poach , and his skin crisp to crackling before he had even fallen or slid a hundred metres ? |
| 6 | They join the Army to get guns , and they 're always in trouble for possessing one illegally or swiping a few rounds of ammunition . |
| 7 | This ‘ tri-axial ’ feature makes sawing in tight corners or taking a few millimetres off the bottom of a fitted door very easy work . |
| 8 | Most smallholders will grow enough for their own use in the vegetable garden or plant a few rows with the swedes or mangolds in their roots field . |
| 9 | Can we reasonably maintain that a woman must continue with a pregnancy in the full knowledge that she will give birth to a baby which will be either stillborn , or live a few days , even hours ? |
| 10 | ‘ Night or day , give or take a hundred feet , right on the spot . ’ |
| 11 | Formerly the collection of the Greater London Council , the 5,000-piece strong holding ( give or take a few balusters ) is now the property of English Heritage , curated by Mr Treve Rosoman who has looked after it since its days with the GLC . |
| 12 | The lifetimes of DNA messages ( give or take a few mutations ) are measured in units ranging from millions of years to hundreds of millions of years ; or , in other words , ranging from 10,000 individual lifetimes to a trillion individual lifetimes . |
| 13 | ‘ About 11.15 , give or take a few minutes . ’ |
| 14 | Well you always know that you know when they say twelve foot six it is n't quite right , they give or take a few inches . |
| 15 | Er and I said , Give or take a few days , and she said , Yeah . |
| 16 | Since no apprentices were taken after 1910 , and since the age at which girls normally left school and began working was fourteen ( give or take a few months ) , the youngest women in the sample were born in 1896 . |
| 17 | ‘ Give or take a few sandbanks . |
| 18 | Give or take a few years they are contemporaries , and yet historically people place Brian Way very much earlier . |
| 19 | While advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself — give or take a few microchips and memories — it 's easy to see that IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it . |
| 20 | Popular newspapers were able to find or invent a few examples of ‘ frivolous ’ applications for dentures or spectacles . |
| 21 | I have n't read any match report yet … so I thought I 'd have a go at a quick one & include a few comments about Rocky as well . |
| 22 | The word processing toolbar , for example , includes icons to link a table from a spreadsheet or merge a few names and addresses from the database . |
| 23 | You can have a much longer list if you feel you require it , or spend a few weeks on each goal before adding another goal . |
| 24 | Later , as night crept over the Rorim , they met in Riven 's room and shared a few pitchers of ale . |
| 25 | I went back to the Maggot 's foul house , where he kept his killer dog and astonishing collection of guns , and we sat on his makeshift verandah that overlooked a noxious and polluted creek and shared a few whiskies as he told me an incredibly tedious tale of how he had once sacked the quarterback of the San Francisco Sugar Plums . |
| 26 | After casting on and knitting a few rows , you just need a couple of minutes from time to time to go back to the machine and change the punchcard or pattern number . |
| 27 | And they would all come through and stay a few nights with |
| 28 | I try and rig a few wires up ! |
| 29 | Kathleen answered the phone , listened for a minute and asked a few questions , and then cradled the receiver with a groan . |
| 30 | Among the " quick fix " solutions which have been proposed to counter global warming are : placing thousand of large mirrors in space to reflect sunlight ; making aircraft engines less efficient so that soot builds up in the stratosphere , with similar effect ; dumping iron filings into the oceans to stimulate the growth of plankton , which absorbs carbon dioxide ; using lasers to break up chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere ; and firing a million tons of dust into the upper atmosphere , also with a view to reflecting solar radiation . |