Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As usual it will be less well-off smokers who suffer most as a disproportionate amount of their income will be swallowed up in tax . ’ |
| 2 | Just over two million of our pupils sit down to a knife-and-fork meal at midday . |
| 3 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 4 | On Saturday nights around 30 people sit down to a four-course SE Asian banquet . |
| 5 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
| 6 | Basically , I just sit down with a little Pignose amp and a tape recorder and play all night . ’ |
| 7 | When it begins to set , splash a little water on to it , and rub gently with a pointing trowel in a circular motion , to smooth flush , leaving little or no sanding . |
| 8 | They sit together in a non-smoking section . |
| 9 | It 's hard to be one of the boys when the boys unite only against a common enemy and at the moment that is oneself . |
| 10 | The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly as the marchers and their supporters wind down after a hard day . |
| 11 | Take 1 hour to bring the solution slowly to simmering point , simmer gently for a further hour . |
| 12 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 13 | Unless your home is totally dilapidated , steer clear of a complete redecoration prior to selling : it will arouse suspicion . |
| 14 | The heroes you have kind of linger on from a prior period when only a few records passed through your life , when you had the time to get fixated , spend weeks living inside a record . |
| 15 | Our first aim , therefore , is to isolate significant typical events and units of social life and activity , and then to probe for the underlying blueprint , often implicit rather than explicit , that will show how they fit together into a meaningful pattern . |
| 16 | Westwood offers an account of how the structures of gender , ethnicity and class fit together for a specific group of women workers . |
| 17 | Einstein was driven to this idea not so much by the experimental results as by the desire to make two parts of the theory fit together in a consistent whole . |
| 18 | They grow opposite on a dark green , purple-tinged stem . |
| 19 | but the melt down of a cast-iron relationship |
| 20 | When we 're talking to the people on the phone we home in on a thousand pound . |
| 21 | Home in on a particular aspect . |
| 22 | It 's especially important in a play like this , which is such a delicate and sensitive piece of writing , that the actors grow together as a cohesive group . |
| 23 | Mere mortals forgive better on a full stomach , so how about dinner on Saturday ? |
| 24 | She wanted to eat her cake and have it , put Georg away in a little box for the future , when she 'd finished having a good time . |
| 25 | For more recipe ideas send away for a free booklet to ‘ Salads through the seasons ’ |
| 26 | They may seem a lot , but in fact they fit easily into a single bag . |
| 27 | His marriage seemed like the Atlantic Ocean to her , something vast and unknowable which she could not attempt to bridge but only fly over at a terrible speed . |
| 28 | A little farther on the severe cliffs melt away into a large area of sand and sand dunes at Gunwalloe . |
| 29 | A minute into the second half , Alton made up the deficit when Paul Ventham intercepted a defender 's pass to put Whiddett through for a clinical finish . |
| 30 | Wash and dry the can well , and place upright on a greased baking tray . |