Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The observer 's task is then to observe what goes on in a classroom and , every three seconds , to tick the category that best describes what has been happening during that period . |
| 4 | Has a repeated ‘ kik ’ note , and a ‘ song ’ rendered as ‘ wait , wait ’ uttered slowly on a rising or falling scale . |
| 5 | I 'd like you to go on to a university and do music , but I think you 'll do that anyway , and I 'd like you to stop playing other instruments . |
| 6 | I have of late had two letters from him , in which he has shown such an easy and familiar way of expressing his thoughts , such a delight for improvement and so much exactness and dilligence in the making of observations that I look upon him to go onward with a curiosity and genious superior to most of his occupation . |
| 7 | ‘ Come and sit down for a minute while the lasagne finishes cooking . ’ |
| 8 | Right , just sit down for a minute and let's , Michael read his first . |
| 9 | You either sit down for a meal or get ready for bed and the phone goes . ’ |
| 10 | Sit down with a pen and paper and make a list of the things you have wanted to do in the past few years . |
| 11 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
| 12 | She sensed that the barometer of their fraught relationship had plummeted to an all-time freeze and , at last , tormented beyond endurance , she stopped typing halfway through a schedule and went into his office . |
| 13 | Well done , excellent , erm , as you can see , in some ways quite a complex er , issue , and it 's one of those things really , I think to fully understand this , you got to sit down with a pencil and paper and work it through yourself . |
| 14 | If she would like the family and close friends to gather together for a meal or light refreshments after the service and committal , you will of course have prepared for this beforehand . |
| 15 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's advertising . |
| 16 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ What you need is a good romance and it so happens I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's marketing . |
| 17 | A girl sits down with a man and she says , ‘ I hear you 're very romantic , please take me to dinner ’ — that 's Public Relations ! |
| 18 | Moreover the fractal transform technique provides perceptual resolution independence : zoom in to a picture and instead of getting a blocky , pixellated image , the software gives a realistic effect by actually adding detail in that was n't in the original . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Using something tangible like photographs keeps the memory load down to a minimum and eases the stress of always having to think of something to say . |
| 21 | What Derrida points out is that this view can creep back into the definition of the sign itself once it has been broken down into a signifier and a signified . |
| 22 | Also , remote users can dial in over a modem and access a network 's drives — this is really useful if you have people on the road who need access to office files . |
| 23 | The main entrance was on a small , dusty square grandly named Campo San Pietro , while , at the rear , steps led down to a canal and a private landing-stage for the guests arriving by water-taxi . |
| 24 | The men lived together in a compound or — to use their term — a cage . |
| 25 | So much so that even when I had abandoned hopes of luring her into my narrow and uncomfortable bed , we frequently got together for a drink or a cheap meal . |
| 26 | Marie , sick and trembling , overwhelmed with fear and guilt at her own actions , was already kneeling down with a dustpan and brush , sweeping up the broken glass from the tomato-sauce bottle that had been on the table . |
| 27 | He saw Maud once in the Kurfûrstendamm , eating alone in a cafe and looking a little desolate , with a stack of coins already piled beside her plate although her meal had only just come . |
| 28 | In commissioning St Paul 's , Covent Garden , the Earl of Bedford is reputed to have told his architect , Inigo Jones , that he wished the building to resemble a barn , and the interior of the church was indeed extremely simple , consisting only of a chancel and a nave without arcades . |
| 29 | And then they would spring down with a howl and rush to embrace her . |
| 30 | Alexandra sank on to a stool and bowed her head . |