Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And will he just go in as an apprentice the same as yourself ? |
| 2 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
| 3 | Terrifically glad if you could bear to look in for a drink the next time you 're in town . |
| 4 | He came in for a chat the other day and said , oh how you getting on ? |
| 5 | I mean i i if you could get in for a penny a week that was alright because when things got better you could build on a penny a week , you see ? |
| 6 | More usually , they come down with a thump a yard or so away . |
| 7 | Leith sank down into a chair the moment the outer door had closed behind him and discovered that she was trembling . |
| 8 | One standing forecast coupon and you 're in with a chance every week for 8–60 weeks . |
| 9 | And I used to go along with a well a finger you see and , That 's not been dusted you see . |
| 10 | I 've got one friend who has written down in a diary every person he 's ever re arrested , I do n't do that , I just , I , I ca n't be bothered to write it all down . |
| 11 | Her knees were weak , and she sat down on a chair the press rep brought over for her ; she could not have trusted her legs to walk over to it . |
| 12 | Then great standing stones brought to mark the way at intervals , and on a bank leading up to a mountain ridge or down to a ford the track cut deep so as to form a guiding notch on the skyline as you come up . |
| 13 | Filled with unusual trees and shrubs , dropping down to a stream the Professor created himself , the garden flows softly and naturally between their home , Vine House , built in 1725 , and the 18th-century park of Blaise Castle , laid out by Repton , which lies adjacent . |
| 14 | TWO exorcists were called in to a drive a ghost from a hospital ward after frightened nurses refused to work there . |
| 15 | Frank , one of the day men brought it in on a trolley a few minutes later . |
| 16 | One of those trees had blown over in a storm a few years later ; the other survived as a diseased and sterile relic . |
| 17 | I 'll be off like a shot the moment my time 's up . ’ |
| 18 | Even when the embryo begins to gastrulate , if up to 80 per cent of the cells are killed off with a drug the embryo can regulate and quite normal mice can develop . |
| 19 | If your husband retires on a Friday , it is unrealistic to think that your great new life together will take off with a flourish the following Monday ; but the good news is that if you can think in terms of allowing yourselves time to renegotiate the way you live together , the chances are that you will both have adjusted to the new situation within about two years . |
| 20 | We ca n't organise the tour to stop off in a hotel every night yet . ’ |
| 21 | Ah equally um , just to go off at a tangent a bit , um there 're a number of more radical theorists , in particular the um in the Bonnie Burstow book Radical Feminist Therapy , would say that um rather like with other forms of sexual crime , the people who 've been victimised , people who 've survived , are often inclined to say something along the lines of mm y'know did i did I bring it on myself kind of kind of feeling . |
| 22 | Take a piece of non-stick paper and mark on with a pencil an outline for a 5cm ( 2inch ) long and 2cm ( ¾inch ) deep rectangle , for the windscreen . |
| 23 | Ten thousand people were taken up for a guinea a ride of a few moments . |
| 24 | They 're up like a lark the next morning . |
| 25 | Belushi exudes all the erotic charisma of a frozen carp , Bracco looks and acts as if she 's just signed up with a Dial a Dime Hostess service and there are various large signposts pointing firmly at The Murderer . |
| 26 | The second one was much more difficult because I had to come up with a script every couple of weeks , and there was so much crammed into each one . |
| 27 | ‘ We can , of course , come up with a quotation the same day if it 's required urgently , and in the not too distant future we aim to give on-the-spot quotations . ’ |
| 28 | Hitachi , with its partners Maxwell and Matsushita , has come up with a disc the same size , while a third combine headed by Seagate has opted for 3¼ inch ( 7–8 cm ) in an attempt to head off the Japanese competition . |
| 29 | They provided my family and I with currency exchange at competitive rates , advice on aeroplane repairs , free landing and hangarage , free overnight accommodation — and even organised on-the-spot Customs clearance when a friend came to pick us up in a twin the following morning . |
| 30 | Asked to sum up in a sentence the essence of his long career as a reporter , he considers the question for a few seconds , laughs , and says : ‘ I do n't think I could do better than quote my old friend the late Jimmy Robinson , who was the Daily Mail 's man in Belfast for many years . |