Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just over two million of our pupils sit down to a knife-and-fork meal at midday . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On Saturday nights around 30 people sit down to a four-course SE Asian banquet . |
| 4 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
| 5 | Basically , I just sit down with a little Pignose amp and a tape recorder and play all night . ’ |
| 6 | The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly as the marchers and their supporters wind down after a hard day . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | but the melt down of a cast-iron relationship |
| 10 | Home in on a particular aspect . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | To set your foundation and eliminate any shine , pat loose powder lightly all over your face and dust off with a big brush . |
| 14 | I sometimes head off to a certain place . |
| 15 | Two of London 's top match teams head off on a magic mystery tour this Sunday with the historic London AA Shield as their goal . |
| 16 | Top off with a concrete mix to fix the supports securely |
| 17 | To subscribe to ELT Journal , simply fill in the form on the back of this leaflet and send it off , with payment , to the address supplied overleaf or send off for a free inspection copy . |
| 18 | Make sure that you receive all four issues of the 1993 volume by filling out the form on the back of this leaflet and sending it off , with payment , to the address supplied overleaf , or send off for a free inspection copy . |
| 19 | It is not only the victims of mental or physical abuse who grow up with a faulty self-image . |
| 20 | This will differ according to the richness of the environment provided by the home and the wider community , but all children live and grow up in a print-rich world full of writing and people who write . |
| 21 | All modems hook up to a serial port . |
| 22 | This does not add much to the cost of the order , and over a period of time the extra components build up into a useful stock of parts . |
| 23 | But then , despite the gloss given by the court flatterers , the unspoken tensions in the palace eventually build up into a civil war which topples the old order . |
| 24 | The various decay products in the uranium chain are not present as they are not soluble in water , but they build up in a defined way , according to the decay rates of the individual isotopes in the chain . |
| 25 | Warm up with a cast iron stove from Aarrow 's range : The Stratford ( above ) and the Evolution ( right ) feature a new multi-fuel grate |
| 26 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 27 | ‘ The times cry out for a dramatic change in our relationship to our neighbour , the Earth and , at root to God . |
| 28 | Comb through with a wide-toothed comb that has rounded ends , or a wide-apart nylon-bristle styling brush . |
| 29 | hold on to a finished thing ? |
| 30 | Daisy had brought her sketch pad , but found it difficult to capture the action and hold on to a straining Ethel . |