Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WIDNES allrounder Richard Hignett plays as a batsman when Cheshire open their Minor Counties championship programme against Cornwall at Stalybridge today . |
| 2 | Perhaps it goes through a tunnel and squirts itself out into another universe somewhere else . |
| 3 | The fan thinks for a second or two and then says ‘ OK where 's the bucket and spade ’ . ’ |
| 4 | And what goes for a right and a liberty is also true of the other cornerstones of moral language : duty , obligation , right , wrong . |
| 5 | From the tee one drives through a wood and over a large chalkpit . |
| 6 | WHEN a bowl of gruel is all that stands between a toddler and death , it was wonderful to see little Issi gain his salvation in Somalia . |
| 7 | When a particularly close rapport develops between a human and an animal , such that the animal will follow its owner through the forest , the animal is called a batiti , ‘ pet ’ . |
| 8 | But the slogan , however carelessly drafted , means something more than banality ; it stands for an attitude that is important and open to challenge . |
| 9 | Although the Boss always fights with his Mob he still counts as a Character and his points cost must be reckoned with the Character points allowance . |
| 10 | The term reference is traditionally used in semantics for the relationship which holds between a word and what it points to in the real world . |
| 11 | In status , it lies between a professorship and a senior lectureship , but is equivalent to the latter in duties ( and salary scale ) . |
| 12 | ‘ You see how easy it is , McAllister , ’ he whispered suddenly , and he kissed the top of her head , ‘ when it is love that lies between a man and a woman , and not hate and fear . ’ |
| 13 | She pauses for a moment and the van overflows with the sound of helpless male laughter . |
| 14 | Often needed in urticaria ( nettlerash ) which develops after a bite or sting ( see Urtica urens also ) . |
| 15 | Ask any élite marathoner what he/she most wants after a race and the answer is very likely to be a massage . |
| 16 | He finishes after a bit and then jumps up on the window ledge . |
| 17 | he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins . |
| 18 | You ca n't even pick up every quiet guy who dresses like a skinhead and lives with blondie . |
| 19 | We find it odd , even offensive , if a boat looks like a teapot and at best quaint when a teapot looks like a boat . |
| 20 | Despite the pain and distress of his illness he said recently : ‘ I know from the outside it looks like a blow but from my view things are different . |
| 21 | So she looks like a princess and she looks like her mum . |
| 22 | As opposed to that special big-time type of failure who looks like a success until the last reel and then turns yellow and |
| 23 | it 's meant to be a bonsai tree which looks like a tree but it 's only very small like that high . |
| 24 | Well they 're obviously not , looks like a pensioner or something , but eh , you know , erm I can , I 'll see if I can get an old , a walking club going with them , you know ? |
| 25 | I use a very small one that looks like a pencil or pen . |
| 26 | Now the torrents and viperish fury that fired ‘ Weld ’ have subsided , it looks like a battle that had to be waged to get to the next stage — the calm , healing shores and sanguine odes of ‘ Harvest Moon ’ . |
| 27 | In the Welsh hills , where the Severn still looks like a river and not the characterless drain it is in the middle and lower reaches , there was ice on the road , and this slowed us down considerably . |
| 28 | That looks like a face or something — a beak — it 's a face anyway ’ . |
| 29 | The building looks like a library or similar public building with its classical portico and columns with Ionic capitals . |
| 30 | The place looks like a fortress and may have been occupied by Greek mercenaries rather than by Greek traders . |