Example sentences of "to [noun] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overheats and it would melt , so because of that they put a little protector thing on to cut out a thermal cut out to stop the current flowing |
| 2 | The man told her to stay where she was , saying : ‘ I 'll be back for you , ’ but she managed to flag down a passing motorist . |
| 3 | However , the job had to be done , and our training asserting itself , we began to pic up a few bits and pieces . |
| 4 | It can cost £2,000-£3,000 to kit out a disabled person with all the equipment needed to communicate . |
| 5 | Some people like to black out a few teeth . |
| 6 | ( iii ) tried to sooth down a damaged personal relationship of the addict in your life . |
| 7 | The Beaverton , Oregon-based company has been working over the last few months to staff up a new business unit to concentrate on low-end multi-processors , an area it feels offers great potential . |
| 8 | The FDIC was already weak from helping to bail out a large number of savings and loan institutions ( the so-called " thrifts " ) , some of which had lost large sums through misguided speculation or outright corruption [ see p. 36843 ; 37412 ] . |
| 9 | He comes close to ruling out a general election in 1991 , saying : ‘ I think we have to think in terms of 1992 . ’ |
| 10 | It was dark out there and it was relatively private , and Wayne had managed to spirit out an entire punchbowl , still half-full . |
| 11 | All I ask of you is to make one phone call to firm up a social event , and you ca n't even get that together ! ’ |
| 12 | I 'm not trying to prove or disprove anything , or to firm up a particular belief system . ’ |
| 13 | Mathematics competitions in the UK have traditionally been elitist affairs designed to single out a few extraordinary individuals and effectively to exclude the rest . |
| 14 | It would probably be unfair to single out a single worker as the ‘ discoverer ’ of Plate Tectonics , but the term ‘ plates ’ was first used by an American , W. Jason Morgan , who was following up earlier work by J. Tuzo Wilson of Toronto University . |
| 15 | It appeared to us then that the scheme which allows us to hand back a large proportion of the business rates was not widely known . ’ |
| 16 | Meeting in Budapest on March 6 the defence ministers of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland sought to co-ordinate policy towards NATO 's North Atlantic Co-operation Council ; they committed themselves to an " open barracks " policy along similar lines to the existing " open skies " policy but stressed that they wished to act in the spirit of dialogue and consultation rather than to set up a closed grouping . |
| 17 | For the first time — and it 's about time — we see Bertie Wooster as he really is , a bungling destroyer of sensibility , eagerly and inanely driving his men on to set up an advanced cricket pitch 100 miles behind enemy lines . ’ |
| 18 | The winter is going to be bleak for the TV companies as income from advertising falls off , and the New Year bleaker as they have to fork out a higher Government levy . |
| 19 | Even more embarrassingly for the struggling bank , it had to fork out a further $2.4m to end the agreement . |
| 20 | TAXPAYERS will have to fork out an extra £300 million to save Prime Minister John Major 's face at the EC Edinburgh Summit today . |
| 21 | He was nabbed by a new British Rail patrol waging war on fare-dodgers and had to fork out an on-the-spot £10 fine . |