Example sentences of "[vb base] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some children were sent to widowed grandmothers to live with them for company , or just sleep a few nights , like the seaman 's daughter on the Western Isles who , when all the men were away at the fishing , ‘ used to sleep with granny … bringing the water from the well and bringing in the peat , tidying up the floor and singing songs , for granny she was a very musical lady , yes she was . ’ |
| 32 | The contrast painted between the intense , vibrant , imaginative life of the child outside school ( where at the end of the day the eight-year-old collapses into deep sleep a few seconds after rushing round ‘ being a lorry ’ ) and the drab , pointless monotony of his classes is as striking as it is disturbing . |
| 33 | Fash 's packed schedule — he often holds business meetings well into the small hours and averages just five hours sleep a night — has not affected the common touch which makes him such a popular figure at Wimbledon . |
| 34 | Cats sleep a lot , so let them choose their own spots — instead of a cosy fireside , your two might prefer an old box on top of the filing cabinet . |
| 35 | We were fit , thinner than any of us had ever been , good at singing , proficient with a variety of weapons , and we could survive on three hours sleep a night . |
| 36 | Logical reasoning and decoding both got worse by the end of three days , and significantly recovered , almost to baseline levels , when 4 hours sleep a night was allowed . |
| 37 | Women are up well before dawn and may have only five or six hours sleep a night in the effort to make ends meet . |
| 38 | She had only four hours sleep a night . |
| 39 | Now close your eyes , my dear , and sleep a little . ’ |
| 40 | MO Mowlam ( recreations : travelling , swimming , jogging , jigsaws , watching football ) has been explaining how she sometimes gets by during the campaign on just two hours sleep a night . |
| 41 | It has not been easy on three hours sleep a night . |
| 42 | The need for sleep varies from person to person — some require more than the average eight hours sleep a night be perfectly normal . |
| 43 | Like six hours , seven hours sleep a night . |
| 44 | Some sessions involve a heavy work-out , so a spare , dry karategi might come in handy for the second session . |
| 45 | Other queries involve a spot of detective work , such as trying to identify a particular type of fibreboard needed for refurbishment work . |
| 46 | Brodkey 's relations with his adoptive mother Doris , a Jewish Clytemnestra to his haunted Orestes , involve a bizarre attempt at incestuous symbiosis ( 'The feeling of obliteration or castration or whatever it was was unsettling as hell' ) and a deathbed reconciliation with a nervous breakdown as a postlude . |
| 47 | As such , they involve a high degree of trust , good will , confidence and faith in all parties ' ability to do the job in hand . |
| 48 | Again , some wrongs , such as fraud , in their essence involve a guilty state of mind , and in such cases the extreme youth of the wrongdoer may be inconsistent with the existence of such a state of mind . |
| 49 | On the other hand , a corporation can own property ; it can acquire rights and make itself liable under a contract ; it can be a trustee ; it can incur civil liability for wrongful acts , and even for those which involve a definite state of mind like fraud or malice . |
| 50 | Some radioactive methods , like uranium series dating , involve a chain of decay : one radioactive element decays into another which in turn decays . |
| 51 | A good game of tennis , badminton , hockey , netball , or football , for instance , all involve a great deal of running over a prolonged period of time . |
| 52 | Understand and use transactional language effectively in a variety of situations which involve a range of audiences . |
| 53 | Both exhibitions result from the 1990/91 bursary awards and involve a combination of performance and photography ( 7 Mar–12 Apr ) . |
| 54 | Multiple residential schemes work well only when they involve a total plan for the grounds and setting of a house , and provide for their continued upkeep . |
| 55 | In other words , events are perceived as quick , slow , etc. , and these properties involve a direct reference to time . |
| 56 | The fundamental difference between water-clocks and mechanical clocks , in the strict sense of the term , is that the former involve a continuous process , for example , the flow of water through an orifice , whereas the latter depend on a mechanical motion that continually repeats itself and so divides time uniformly into discrete segments . |
| 57 | Many cases of induction involve a signal from the cells underlying a cell sheet . |
| 58 | These cells must be replaced and involve a process similar to that of blood cells . |
| 59 | Tests have been regularly carried out since the early eighties to discover whether those who exercise regularly or who have jobs which involve a considerable amount of physical exertion are able to think more clearly and remember more accurately than their IQ counterparts who lead a fairly sedentary life . |
| 60 | Some of these , certainly in Johannesburg , are located in the city , far from the townships , and involve a long journey . |