Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb base] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is one scene where I fall over a sofa , which we added on the day of the shoot . ’ |
| 2 | Meanwhile , those of you yet to take out a home-loan but thinking of doing so might be better off going for the repayment version where you pay off a little bit of the loan and interest as you go along . |
| 3 | ‘ They find accommodation where they set up a nursery , then sit back and wait for the right opportunity to arise . |
| 4 | The significant event is the landing of Goodbody 's patrol behind enemy lines in North Africa , where they set up an ‘ advanced-area cricket pitch ’ , for the purpose of ‘ morale ’ and to impress a visiting military VIP as ‘ a small patch of sanity ’ . |
| 5 | The children , their father Jim and other members of the first UK medical expedition to Everest , were on Aonach Mor , near Fort William , yesterday where they set up an imitation base camp for the benefit of the press and potential sponsors . |
| 6 | This method brings library users into the actual building , where they carry out a series of practical tasks concerned with location of materials , photocopying , use of catalogues , borrowing routines and so on . |
| 7 | Having made such progress in Sheffield , I felt it was time to move back to home ground , so I set up a CHE group in Rotherham . |
| 8 | Although we are now debating a piece of works legislation , it represents a major reform of parliamentary procedure , so I put down a marker at this stage to the effect that the Minister should be more forthcoming in considering whether we should have new procedures for dealing with orders . |
| 9 | I do n't want to be blown across the room in the first ten minutes so I hang back a little as we sit round the table with Anthony Hopkins and Campbell Scott to read the scene through and discuss it . |
| 10 | You do n't want that to happen , so you take out an inn-sewer-ants-polly-sea . |
| 11 | It lists the different elements of a database — data files ( in table form ) , queries ( Query-By-Example , so you fill in a data entry form with the criteria you want matched by the query ) , single-record forms , reports , label formats and applications . |
| 12 | No , once you take over a job you take over a job . |
| 13 | Once you build up a regular routine you will want to get outside whatever the weather is doing . |
| 14 | The likeliest place for the specks to get into the product was in the ‘ Fluon ’ finishing Room so we set up a multi-disciplinary CAT of operators , supervisors , QC , QA and maintenance personnel headed by Finishing Room manager Jim Fairhurst . |
| 15 | All the matches are wet , so we cram down a few handfuls of cheese and boiled sweets . |
| 16 | Now we 've got a formula , so we build up a little table . |
| 17 | The non-crystalline , that is the amorphous cellulose , has no mechanism for protecting its hydroxyls from moisture , since most of them are not firmly attached to their neighbours , and so they pick up a shell , round each hydroxyl , of any water molecules which are available . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 19 | Yes and there If I If I pull up a bit and back out there . |
| 20 | If I take on an artist , for example , I need to think they will have a future . |
| 21 | If I take out a chunk , you can do |
| 22 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
| 23 | ‘ All sight if I walk up a bit ? he called to Marty , who was leaning forward with his elbow on the wheel and his open palm supporting his chin . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll feel stronger a damn sight faster if I move around a bit , ’ he threw at her in a voice little better than a snarl . |
| 25 | Well , she thought , it wo n't be difficult to judge how right I am , if I pay out a few yards of line for him . |
| 26 | Immediately she asked me when I might be free , but I was able to murmur , ‘ It 's a little difficult , Mrs Fawcett , until I get around a bit more and establish some duty rosters . ’ |
| 27 | Imagine , he says , a radio set that works perfectly until you pull out a single component but then proceeds to emit a high-pitched whine . |
| 28 | If you pick up a handful of ordinary package brochures , America will be there : Crystal , Inghams , Intasun , Neilson and Thomson all have new or expanded American programmes . |
| 29 | If you pick up a sea cucumber , do so with care , for they have an extravagant way of defending themselves . |
| 30 | For instance , if you pick up an SPF15 sun cream awarded four stars ( the maximum rating ) , it means that the product filters out UVA and UVB equally , whereas an SPF15 cream with two stars means it filters UVA considerably less effectively than UVB . |