Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | " If we do n't run into any trouble and the brook takes us through the wood , " he thought , " we really shall be clear of the warren and then we can look for somewhere to rest for a bit . |
| 2 | By the time she got up , after finally falling into a heavy , dreamless sleep just before dawn , Rachel had a headache and felt thoroughly wretched at the thought of what might be to come . |
| 3 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 4 | She joined her father 's business empire at the age of 19 after earlier working as a Bunny Girl for the rival Playboy Group . |
| 5 | DAGENHAM and Redbridge went within an ace of upsetting their Second Division neighbours Orient in the FA Cup , eventually going down 5–4 after twice leading by a two-goal margin . |
| 6 | J actually expends energy on caring about not caring in a ( non ) attempt to kid us nothing' at all bothers him into action , no sir . |
| 7 | I still put myself to sleep by thinking about not lying on a cold pavement covered with newspapers . |
| 8 | Pardy 's previous convictions were of a relatively trivial nature , being ordered out of several county towns by magistrates for persistently collecting without a licence in the street — rattling his tin in support of a variety of causes but only very recently turning his attention to those connected with animals . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the report did criticize the police for not preventing the incident and in particular for not acting on a wide range of warnings that unrest had been planned . |
| 10 | Jefferies ' excuse was accepted and , after a reprimand from John Martin for not behaving like a man , he was asked to sit down . |
| 11 | Then you are criticised for not winning in a style they regard as appropriate . |
| 12 | Despite much monstering as a sort of Thatcher Terror man , Eric Pickles is essentially rather decent , and very stuffy about racial prejudice . |
| 13 | Fashanu has carried the injury for a number of weeks and has had to endure two hours of daily stretching on a rack to ease the pain . |
| 14 | Housing official signed transfer forms and I was told I would receive notification of anew house within a week . |
| 15 | What such books include when they claim to describe the British ‘ constitution ’ depends on what their authors consider important to the framework of the system : what the ‘ constitution ’ consists of thus emerges from a survey of the system and is not determined by an independent , non-political definition that precedes it . |
| 16 | I had another serious battle getting approval for the M54 to Telford — the only road I know of finally settled at a full meeting of a Cabinet committee . |
| 17 | But I said that and sort of just holding on a level now like , is n't it ? |
| 18 | And they stabbed at him and caused his whole body to tremble as if in shame because , in a way , he knew she was right : his inadequacy to face his future was there for even himself to see ; he had considered volunteering in order to avoid the responsibility of making the choice either of going to University to read for a degree in English Literature or of just plumping for a teacher 's training college course . |
| 19 | I mean , if I sort of just stay for a , for a while but er I 've still keep looking for work looking for a job cos I do wan na get away from B T. |
| 20 | So what 's the pleasure of just roaring up a hill ? |
| 21 | Okay if you just sort of like think of a vague title which sums up what the things are which you want to cover in the essay and if you get it to me by Monday then that that 'll be quite good . |
| 22 | It was the possibility of directly profiting from a revival of Spanish overseas trade that brought prosperity to these same regions : to the ‘ companies ’ of Catalan , to the merchants of the Levante ports , and to the Basque shippers . |
| 23 | ‘ So what I think we 've got to do , ’ says Howard , ‘ is to set up a society where everyone has enough sort of … contentment … to be sort of contented , but not so much that they ca n't see that all this sort of contentment is sort of blinding them to the possibility of becoming sort of more contented in a sort of kind of deeper sort of … ’ |
| 24 | He admitted three charges of illegally camping in a lay-by and two charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice by giving a false name to police . |
| 25 | Paddy Ashdown has an egg salad in a saffron mayonnaise on a bed of very curly green frisee lettuce — saffron being a much-used ingredient in the West Country ; this has the advantage of also doubling as a dish for the Green party . |
| 26 | Unfortunately I 'm going to be busy for most of today lecturing to a group of Japanese businessmen , so I 'll have to leave you in the hands of my assistant . |
| 27 | The Manchester City chairman is facing the challenge of how to deal with a big cash approach from former Maine Road favourite Francis Lee . |
| 28 | If you would like to keep in touch with the University after you graduate contact the Convocation Office , The University of Salford , Salford M5 4WT or telephone 061–736–5843 for details of how to register as a member of Convocation . |
| 29 | He seems pretty strong minded , so Im pretty sure he s got definate ideas of how hed like a team to play etc . |
| 30 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |