Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still searching for perfection , she has no plans to retire for quite a while yet , when will she quit ? |
| 2 | I think I think it is a good idea though to erm oh right er to y'know kind of break it up a bit er particularly if at an early stage you 're intending to y'know kind of go through erm and get people to go through quite a lot of questions erm as a by way of er y'know kind of the first stages in in er developing this thing . |
| 3 | But fortunately most people who are asked to help in surveys are prepared to accept that they are appropriate people to answer questions on the survey for which they are approached , and particularly where people feel that they are being asked to give ‘ expert ’ information this can be seen as rather a compliment : ‘ If you want to know about how a housewife organizes her day I can tell you everything you need to know . ’ |
| 4 | Meanwhile , in his final years before retirement , Pepler contributed to procedures , bringing his experience to bear for over a quarter of a century on government departments and officials in them , and between local and central government . |
| 5 | However , the simplest method to overcome this potential problem is to fill the pool once with clear water and allow it to stand for about a week . |
| 6 | Yes , I was talking about he used to come over here a lot . |
| 7 | But as fear of Soviet intentions increased , so some in Britain began to feel that concessions might be necessary in order to secure at least a degree of American backing in the region . |
| 8 | Finally , resolved to find at least a change of heat , I went on to Khartoum , which had the merit at least of being dry in contrast to the swelter up north . |
| 9 | Here , the major objective is to find at least a champion , and hopefully an internal sponsor for the idea . |
| 10 | I would like to be able to find at least an oddment of eroticism . |
| 11 | The first jobs through the system should be paralleled through the current process as well to provide at least a degree of insurance against total disaster . |
| 12 | The development of a GIS capable of storing and manipulating the volumes of data required for a global research programme is still some way off , but smaller GIS have been used to attempt to provide at least a beginning . |
| 13 | Wood cutting boards will survive for a period but tend to crack after about a year of continuous washing . |
| 14 | The customer has relaxed sufficiently to volunteer at least a couple of personal details ( about outside interests , family , etc ) . |
| 15 | We had to walk for about a week , sleeping during the day and continuing at night . |
| 16 | For instance , a group of adolescents intending to look at how a family might drive one of its members to suicide , began their drama by working out the family 's relative positions round the graveside , concerning themselves with ‘ how it would look if it were a still photograph ’ . |
| 17 | On the Saturdays I would scrub the kitchen floor , black and polish the kitchen grate , and polish the knives , so that my mother could have a little rest on her return from several hours cleaning , sometimes having to walk at least a mile to her regular place of work . |
| 18 | ‘ You must have thought you 'd brought enough work to last at least a couple of days . |
| 19 | Yeah but if it 's going to be shown to ultimately thousands of people and to last at least a couple of years , we should invest in it . |
| 20 | The trial was expected to last at least a year . |
| 21 | Erm I think um , given what you were saying yesterday , erm it 's sometimes a good idea to start with quite a lot and then narrow it down a bit . |
| 22 | A publishing company , financed by Edinburgh District Council and the Wester Hailes Partnership in Edinburgh has collapsed with debts which are thought to run to over a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 23 | These are so popular that you will need to book at least a couple of months in advance . |
| 24 | We would expect an anchoring of the path at one end or the other to reduce at least a portion of the breadth-first search . |
| 25 | A common response to the PNP messages was to convert at least a part of the room into workbays which were generally , though not invariably , dedicated to specific areas of the curriculum . |
| 26 | Whereas in most databases you have to go to quite a lot of effort to create the linked structure , in Delta Five it is expected that your databases will have this structure , and you have to work quite hard not to conform ! |
| 27 | Jointly funded by local businesses and Thamesdown Media Arts , it 's designed to appeal to both a Swindon and a national audience . |
| 28 | The effect , however , was that authorities had to live with both a GREA and a target and authorities spending above their target suffered a penalty even if their expenditure was within the GREA figure . |
| 29 | The WRVS aim to run their tea bar whenever the court is sitting , usually three times a week , but provided the rota is working well ( ‘ which it does ’ , Mrs. Rooney said ) the organiser needs only to call in once a week . |
| 30 | She had to get her hands back on the reins , had to re-establish at least a degree of control over her own life . |