Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , it was precisely the excessive femininity , laid on with a trowel as it were , that created the effect of someone pretending to be a woman , someone in fact rather desperately hoping to be taken for one . |
| 2 | ‘ Come and sit down for a minute while the lasagne finishes cooking . ’ |
| 3 | We speak of a judgement in a particular case or of a rule laid down in a judgement as being undoubtedly according to law , but as being ‘ unfair ’ or ‘ unjust ’ or ‘ inequitable ’ . |
| 4 | The lorry rolled on to a car after its rear wheels were hit by another car which had lost control . |
| 5 | Hounded to her death by a cruel mother-in-law , neglected by her husband … the same husband who 'd carried on with a woman when she was hardly cold in her grave . |
| 6 | Paintings which beg to be viewed at a distance , one by one , are squeezed together in a room as narrow , bare and poorly lit as a urinal in an airport . |
| 7 | Except that even with costume and make-up the star had looked less like a pirate than Nathan Bryce did at this moment . |
| 8 | We seem to be able to communicate better with a horse if no one else is around . |
| 9 | Or grind down to a powder if you want to add it to smooth sauces . |
| 10 | According to Barry Morris , Blackpool 's tourism boss : ‘ People are not prepared to accept less in a B&B than they have at home . |
| 11 | do n't go in Charlotte 's bedroom , alright , alright , they might have to come down in a minute if you want to go up , ah ? |
| 12 | The Rigalis ' 31-year-old son , Amedeo , meanwhile , joins in with a voice as Easington as you might find : ‘ I 'm proud to be half Italian , but I do n't give it that much thought . ’ |
| 13 | They were awake before dawn and for the second time they heard the chorus begin as a trickle and grow swiftly to a torrent as the birds welcomed the great Trumpeter . |
| 14 | She generally fills her supermarket trolley more fully when she shops just before a meal than if she shops shortly after one , when her hunger is fully satisfied . |
| 15 | The experts at Poly know that we want more from a perm than just curl so they have formulated a product that does much more . |
| 16 | ‘ As well as children are when their mother fails to come home from a party because she 's shacked up with some gorilla in a cheap hotel . |
| 17 | Stealing had come more as a necessity than anything else . |
| 18 | On the bedside table , he was in the act of placing a Bible , so that he may have dropped off into a doze while reading it . |
| 19 | He was carried off on a stretcher when the game was only 10 minutes old , after he had flown into a tackle from behind on Dean Saunders . |
| 20 | As head of government from 1985 to 1988 , Mr Junejo often looked more like a schoolteacher than a political leader and was a strict disciplinarian . |
| 21 | He looks much older , and looks more like a pirate than ever , talking in a queer half-American accent . |
| 22 | Some butterflies have a rear end that looks more like a head than their real heads . |
| 23 | This sparrow-sized bird is dull brown and grey in colour , and since it spends much of its time scurrying around on the ground , it often looks more like a mouse than a bird . |
| 24 | Since queen and chamberlain had to work closely together ex officio , Vivian 's promotion looks more like a counterweight than a complement to Adalard 's . |
| 25 | After closing time he was walking home with a friend when he felt an arm round his neck and was confronted by Simpson , who wielded the knife and demanded he hand over his jumper and coat . |
| 26 | They will be correct when they explain the advantages of new fabrics , they will also be correct to laugh when you explain what you already use , and you will be bewitched when you try on something fantastic , comfortable and attractive that they slip surreptitiously from a hanger while they talk . |
| 27 | They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations |
| 28 | Even in the ‘ settled ’ areas , where the US and the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control ( UNFDAC ) have been active , efforts to eradicate opium by crop substitution have run into trouble for one simple reason : in 30 years , no one has been able to come up with a product as lucrative and easy to market as opium . |
| 29 | Dot wondered why it was braver to jump out of a plane than to lose two fingers in a factory . |
| 30 | On one hand this angry commentary about what these women protesters had done to outrage all the people involved in Miss World , and on the other hand , my dad sort of crashed out in a chair because he was so exhausted from his work . |