Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun] and " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Right , just sit down for a minute and let's , Michael read his first . |
| 6 | Sit down with a pen and paper and make a list of the things you have wanted to do in the past few years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's advertising . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And then they would spring down with a howl and rush to embrace her . |
| 21 | Alexandra sank on to a stool and bowed her head . |
| 22 | So I told the machine what it was about , and moved on to a golfer and one of the Black and White minstrels . ’ |
| 23 | Butyl liners can be repaired successfully with a patch and special adhesive ( it 's rather like repairing a puncture in a cycle inner-tube ) . |
| 24 | The module is intended to prepare students to work effectively in a group and to understand the benefits of teamwork in achieving a common goal . |
| 25 | Clytemnestra agreed vociferously , leaping on to a stool and screeching hysterically at sight of her lead . |
| 26 | The lightning was the forked kind and it branched suddenly like a firework and yet like the limb of a blazing tree . |
| 27 | Meryl Sank down on a window-seat and listened ; already the house was uncannily quiet . |
| 28 | Emily sank down into a chair and studied the pages closely , controlling the urge to slap the insolent hussy 's pretty face . |
| 29 | She sank down into a chair and watched as Craig knelt before the fire , building it back into a glowing warmth . |
| 30 | When the carriage was out of sight , she sank down into a chair and put her hands over her face . |