Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Awkwardly and delicately , as if her own arms and hands were unfamiliar tools , she gathered flowerpots on a cleared area of ledge , took a bucket outside and poured away the green standing slime . |
| 2 | Place a bucket underneath and poke wire about inside to remove blockages |
| 3 | I used to love the letters page but now it gets a bit bogged down in one debate — make it a bit longer and keep the ‘ one-off ’ letters/comments . |
| 4 | Mum said , ’ We 'll wait a bit longer and see . ’ |
| 5 | It would be a tragedy for the aircraft preservation and restoration movement as a whole if it were all scrapped , and so it is with great sadness that after a great deal of thought they are agreed ( having been partners both in business and as husband and wife ) that the time has come to take life a bit easier and retire from the business . |
| 6 | Those young people , well , they did talk a bit loudly and show off , but they always had a smile and a pleasant word , and they did brighten the place up a bit , you could n't deny it . |
| 7 | Mind you it 'll probably be fine and anyway as someone said it 'll be good to widen the group a bit more and launch some journalistic careers into the bargain ( -> ) . |
| 8 | I 'll build the fire up a bit more and heat it for you now . |
| 9 | Well , rather pay a bit more and get one that 's good |
| 10 | The gramophone banged a bit more and produced Tchaikovsky . |
| 11 | I 'm not going to throw it away , it 's too expensive to throw away , no I 'll cook it a bit more and do a do a curry , rice or spaghetti |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | He thought about it a bit more and decided that home was the wrong word ; it was just the place where he lived . |
| 14 | a bit more and start making a bit more |
| 15 | Get up a bit earlier and try a bit harder |
| 16 | Oh Deborah was moaning cos she went to a party the other last one this week , I think at the beginning of the week , and the had Joey the clown and Mr Nuttey , she said oh I 'd like them , but Sue said she went sort of a bit earlier and see how they got on and eh , she said oh it was n't the same at five , they did n't respond and . |
| 17 | She wondered whether this was going a bit far and glanced up , surreptitiously , at her mother : her wasted evening had left her in a bad mood , and she was determined to take it out on somebody . |
| 18 | The Wilsons however found it all a bit much and thinking their tank threatened , have moved the fish on to Blackpool 's Sealife Centre . |
| 19 | then it went a bit further and stop , and then we used to be walking up the , but that were it , half a crown |
| 20 | I 'd go a little bit further and say well it 'd be much more likely that husband and wife would be in the master bedroom with in the small bedroom , but as you say er the adults or anybody indeed in the flat is likely to be in the bedrooms at that time , but Sergeant you see went a bit further and said that at the briefing , somehow he got information that was likely to be in the master bedroom so I understand your evidence , you certainly did n't get that impression at the brief . |
| 21 | I think , obviously you 've you 've got your own organization , your own professional standards and things , I think they need to be developed and , more importantly , promoted themselves to the public , and then , to take it a bit further and to try and escape that straitjacket which I think which in this country particularly all public servants are limited by . |
| 22 | Will the Foreign Secretary go a bit further and say what the attitude is of the British Government ? |
| 23 | I 'd actually go a bit further and say yes we 'd like to do this , can we also look after road maintenance as well , because the road maintenance is sent out to contractors , contractors are so busy , they ca n't actually do half this work , they 've got a list as long as your arm , so pit pitfalls in in the pavements as well as as some of the motorways are n't being done because the contract 's been placed , but they 've placed it with the wrong people . |
| 24 | Just cut a bit off and get it whiskers and it 's off ? |
| 25 | well you 've got some rings can cut a bit off and put in |
| 26 | Although the SSC , like most things , could probably have been designed a bit better and made to cost a bit less , physics dictates its overall scale . |
| 27 | That 's a bit of a long drag that one , not that Paul take open up a bit there and go a bit faster , level , but that was a bit Well 's done a left up to Chell 's Field and that , bloody that killed him , I bet , you know the bit I mean , and up over the fields , where you go through the fields and fields , that was the killer , cos and coming back Bell 's straight round to , got to the bottom , Hill was n't too bad . |
| 28 | so I had to go and put a thread on and put it in , it in another place |
| 29 | card ca n't you just go stra buy and just write a cheque out and go straight in ? |
| 30 | But he 's got to do it on Access because there 's no money in the bank to write a cheque out and pay for the suit . |