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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yes , I was talking about he used to come over here a lot . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Here , the major objective is to find at least a champion , and hopefully an internal sponsor for the idea . |
| 9 | I would like to be able to find at least an oddment of eroticism . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Wood cutting boards will survive for a period but tend to crack after about a year of continuous washing . |
| 13 | The customer has relaxed sufficiently to volunteer at least a couple of personal details ( about outside interests , family , etc ) . |
| 14 | We had to walk for about a week , sleeping during the day and continuing at night . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ You must have thought you 'd brought enough work to last at least a couple of days . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The trial was expected to last at least a year . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | These are so popular that you will need to book at least a couple of months in advance . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | Jointly funded by local businesses and Thamesdown Media Arts , it 's designed to appeal to both a Swindon and a national audience . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She had to get her hands back on the reins , had to re-establish at least a degree of control over her own life . |
| 29 | I was expecting to wait till about a quarter past seven . |
| 30 | ‘ Join us , ’ she whispered , and then two things happened ; there was a sharp pain , almost as if he 'd swallowed broken glass , as she started to take her hand away , and in that same moment the generator missed another beat and caused the lights to drop for barely a fraction of a second . |