Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is one scene where I fall over a sofa , which we added on the day of the shoot . ’ |
| 2 | Meanwhile , those of you yet to take out a home-loan but thinking of doing so might be better off going for the repayment version where you pay off a little bit of the loan and interest as you go along . |
| 3 | Suppose your new washing machine is on the blink ; or your neighbour puts up a fence inside your boundary ; or you trip over a paving stone and break your leg . |
| 4 | From experience and familiarity he or she builds up a mental pictorial encyclopaedia based on study of museum collections , information from archaeological research and accumulated knowledge from books and papers describing objects of particular periods and cultures . |
| 5 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 6 | ‘ They find accommodation where they set up a nursery , then sit back and wait for the right opportunity to arise . |
| 7 | This method brings library users into the actual building , where they carry out a series of practical tasks concerned with location of materials , photocopying , use of catalogues , borrowing routines and so on . |
| 8 | This gallant officer , the colonel assured the regiment , careless of his own safety , continued the attack after Lieutenant Harvey had fallen , killing several German soldiers before reaching their dugouts , where he wiped out a complete enemy unit singlehanded . |
| 9 | He anticipated the later work of Humphry Repton [ q.v. ] by creating flower gardens adjacent to the house , as at Sandon in 1781 , where he laid out a garden under the windows of the drawing-room , planted with flowers and flowering shrubs and with a central basin of water with goldfish . |
| 10 | It was his desire to play the Senior Tour and his love of golf which has given the Notts professional the inspiration to overcome his terrible injuries and pick up where he left off a little more than a year ago . |
| 11 | His most spectacular success came in the AJC PLate , where he handed out a ten-length beating to his Melbourne Cup conqueror Nightmarch . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , ’ she replied tersely , ‘ I 'll make sure that I draw up a balance sheet next time . |
| 13 | I told you in another part of this saga of mine that I took over a Night in No 7 Squadron from a Flight Commander . |
| 14 | It is likely that someone taking up a post direct from library school will have far less practical or quasi-practical experience of book selection than of the two preceding activities , and this may mean that the manager needs to introduce his staff to the basic elements of book provision work in addition to the special features of a particular system . |
| 15 | Having made such progress in Sheffield , I felt it was time to move back to home ground , so I set up a CHE group in Rotherham . |
| 16 | Although we are now debating a piece of works legislation , it represents a major reform of parliamentary procedure , so I put down a marker at this stage to the effect that the Minister should be more forthcoming in considering whether we should have new procedures for dealing with orders . |
| 17 | ‘ So I took up a hold on 210 overhead the ditched pilot using Rate 1s as crosswind and base legs . |
| 18 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 19 | ‘ He suggested it could have died another way , ’ Small recalls , ‘ so I took out a knife , skinned it on his desk , and showed him where the fox 's teeth had punctured the flesh . ’ |
| 20 | I had worked as an assistant in Mothercare for quite a few years , so I took out a discount card with them when I was pregnant and I bought everything there at 20 per cent discount . |
| 21 | The waiters were all busy at that moment so I picked up a full glass from the table and fought my way to where she was holding court in the middle of the mass — standing up , of course . |
| 22 | I had my trumpet case on my knee and half a carriage to myself , so I pulled out a paperback of Gore Vidal 's latest Essays and read the one where he thinks he gets confused with Anthony Burgess . |
| 23 | I must do something , I thought , so I rang up a friend of mine called David Woolcock . |
| 24 | I do n't want to be blown across the room in the first ten minutes so I hang back a little as we sit round the table with Anthony Hopkins and Campbell Scott to read the scene through and discuss it . |
| 25 | But here I was stuck back on the dole with a Fostex 250 , a guitar , a microphone and a drum machine , so I worked out a way of getting up to about eleven tracks on the Portastudio by constantly bouncing to and fro . |
| 26 | I hate Heathcliff too , but I could not agree to murder , so I called out a warning from the kitchen window . |
| 27 | Although she started out a creature of Parisian tastes in the sixties , by the seventies she had turned towards Iranian fabrics and designs ; where she went her court and may others followed . |
| 28 | The woman was so surprised that she fell back a step . |
| 29 | The family recorded an anxious moment during the visit when the King lifted five-year-old Catherine Drummond in his arms and put her ‘ upon the Table which so much alarmed her that she burst out a crying . ’ |
| 30 | But of course he was right about the trouser bit because Nan had a gay disposition and a very pretty face ; what he would n't admit to was that she brought in a lot of custom at the week-end , especially when there was a boat in and some of the sailors would make their way up from the quayside and spend freely on chocolate or toffee for their girls . |