Example sentences of "a break " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're going to take a break it may as well be a clean one . |
| 2 | Kathleen , absolute brick to the end , has let me keep my season ticket for London so I 've still been able to pop down there during the day when I feel like it — and the rail staff at Colchester have been quite happy to let me have a break in my journey . |
| 3 | Returning from a break in Wales , we found annual nettles , chickweed and seedling thistles had made a major takeover bid for the plot ; a bit of a blow , but not entirely unexpected . |
| 4 | If a break does occur the wire tends to coil up , and it is easy to make the mistake of just tying the broken ends together and towing it straight back to the launch point for the next launch . |
| 5 | If a tie results , then after a break of up to a minute an extension of two or three minutes is fought . |
| 6 | They all took a break then , to eat their oatcakes and drink jugs of beer from Anderson 's . |
| 7 | Or you may be a carer looking for help to enable you to take a break , either for regular short spells , or to go on holiday or in an emergency . |
| 8 | Respite means taking a break . |
| 9 | Respite care is often available to give the carer and the person cared for a break from each other . |
| 10 | ‘ Taking a Break : a guide for people caring at home ’ . |
| 11 | There is a number of ‘ sitting ’ schemes run by social services departments or others which may help a carer to take a break . |
| 12 | We made it to the Pastukhov rocks without a break and steered left where the slope steepened considerably . |
| 13 | When she 's got a moment she probably reads Bella , Best or Take a Break , and regularly buys the Daily Mail . |
| 14 | JAPANESE technology will create more than 500 jobs in an umemployment blackspot in south Wales , marking a break from the ‘ screwdriver ’ plants which characterise much inward investment in the UK . |
| 15 | At the end of each drill , as the tractor turns , the flood dwindles , the noise dies away , and we get a break . |
| 16 | He turned up unannounced one day , during a break from a television appearance , with a minder who wanted to give him a taste of real working-class London . |
| 17 | BRIGHTON Mark Steel is a comic who should be returned to at irregular intervals : see him too often ( and he is all over London ) and you tire of his south London patter , but go back to his schoolroom lesson after a break from the circuit , or see him off his home patch and you 'll enjoy an exercise bookful of character face-pulling , energetic storytelling and witty , like-it-is observations . |
| 18 | Guscott 's , set up by a break by Brendan Mullin , was a felicitous product of the renewal of the Lions centre pairing who did so well in Paris last week . |
| 19 | In the other match , Jonathan Speelman claimed a time-out , taking a break in order to think himself into the right frame of mind to fight his way back into the match . |
| 20 | This is a break with tradition : there is an unwritten law which says sports cars for the ‘ enthusiast ’ market have rear-wheel drive . |
| 21 | After a while you need a break from a unit like this . |
| 22 | And I believed that this world of darkness and changing images went on without a break , as unceasingly as the other less real one outside , wherever outside was , and by some unlikely philanthropic gesture of the city corporation was allowed to co-exist and be connected by the little dark doors with dark portholes . |
| 23 | In Parliament , opposition spokesmen condemned the proposals as an attack on the welfare state and a break with the consensus . |
| 24 | ‘ If it rains , ’ he said gloomily , ‘ if it rains that heap will set like mixed concrete and we 'll never be rid of it' ; and though there was no sign of a break in the weather he covered the slowly diminishing heap at night with clear plastic , weighted down with stones . |
| 25 | Men are all little boys at heart , when all 's said and done , and it 's not only women that like to have these little playthings about to make a break in the daily round . |
| 26 | There is also benefit to be gained from a break or — better — a short sleep . |
| 27 | A break is taken , instantly chi appears and the visitors are presented with an enormous banana , a great delicacy in this region . |
| 28 | A medical orderly and a nurse patch up a competitor 's foot during a break in the Nijmegen Marches |
| 29 | Although the arrival of Harry was a break in the gloom , the Prince was a prickly man to live with . |
| 30 | The evening sessions of the course will run fortnightly from 4 October 1990 to late March 1991 , with a break over Christmas : all evening sessions will run from 7.30 to 10.00 pm . |