Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A belief in daemons or evil spirits led on naturally to a need for exorcists ; exorcism , it is reasonable to assume , became one of the priestly functions . |
| 2 | But United embarked on what Mr Ferguson dubbed ‘ kamikaze football ’ against City and ended up hanging on desperately for a point . |
| 3 | — Sit down again for a minute . |
| 4 | ‘ Sit down again for a while . ’ |
| 5 | Am I going to sit down comfortably in a studio and be interviewed , or is this guy going to come to my office with a piece of equipment like that , which we will be using later , a ewer , or a Nigra whatever piece of portable equipment they have . |
| 6 | The red-haired baby with the bright blue eyes heaves himself up to a standing position , staggers , then sits down abruptly with a look of mild surprise . |
| 7 | It 's alright when I first got in then after a while my legs all started going wobbly . |
| 8 | Each criterion is broken down further into a number of different categories with varied weighted values . |
| 9 | This goes down well for a while , until the ‘ MC ’ puppet finally orders them to ‘ kindly leave the stage ’ or to be quiet . |
| 10 | The substance or substances were placed down either on an object in front of the horse or somewhere on the front of the horse himself . |
| 11 | Long after all this excitement has subsided , the owner of the property drives down comfortably in a carriage or pony-cart , having sent the indispensable chit to the station-master , asking that official to allow his servants to stow his hand-baggage in the compartment reserved for him . |
| 12 | Yeah yes the we went to we used to go down there for a day to Skeggie . |
| 13 | when the business of the partnership can be carried on only at a loss ; |
| 14 | He may be mistaken in his choice of means , but it is against nature that he should wish harm to his kingdom ’ A unified and consistent policy , it was often contended , could be carried on only by a monarch , not by a group of ministers each of whom had his own axe to grind ( this was a favourite argument of Frederick II in particular ) . |
| 15 | We 'll look , we 'll actually look at the processes of deep water formation tomorrow , so you 'll actually see how the waters are formed , but the reason why this is high is basically the act of A , low biological activity removing it and B , the fact that the source waters have not come from below , they 've come in horizontally from an area where they were formed which was very rich in oxygen . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose you think that your father and I have scrimped and saved to give you children a good education so that you can waste your time and money at the pictures , ’ said Mrs Mallory , pressing down fiercely on a handkerchief . |
| 17 | Warned that she could only stay for a few moments , Laura had sat down quietly in a chair beside the bed , taking her cousin 's inert , pale hand and praying , as she had never prayed before , that Liz would be able to survive her ordeal . |
| 18 | Detailed analysis shows that the dominant member of the pair starts the calling , but the other male joins in just of a second later . |
| 19 | In addition , the original tenant will be liable to pay damages if an assignee holds over unlawfully as a trespasser ( Thames Manufacturing Co Ltd v Perrots ( Nichol & Peyton ) Ltd ( 1984 ) 271 EG 284 ) . |
| 20 | If you charged Musicians Union rates no one hired you : if you did n't , your fellow musicians hated you : and to stand up there on a platform for four hours disappointing a room full of people was not his idea of living . |
| 21 | So , I 'm fed up I want to go to Malita And then we get , they 'll call in and say you have n't come up there for a week ! |
| 22 | I was just having a word with one of your colleagues here trying to take up what Mr 's point was and I think we 've come up maybe with a compromise , is that we call him the County Public Protection Officer . |
| 23 | Le Bon seemed to have in mind here a church congregation , as in the remarks about people being lifted up ethically in a crowd . |
| 24 | The largest summering group is found at Beachy Head , where up to five were noted prospecting in 1961 , and numbers built up steadily to a maximum of 38 apparent pairs in 1972 . |
| 25 | Critical discourse might have been given more space , especially in the context of the brief discussion of " canon " , but it is well handled in the earlier volume by Durant and Fabb , so can be picked up again in a course which focuses more clearly on literary texts using that book . |
| 26 | On the , on the down side , some of us felt that the , the actual heading could have been , might get picked up verbatim by a news editor and used almost in that form . |
| 27 | Well I 'm not actually signed up but I 'm going to start signing up now as a crew member . |
| 28 | Build up slowly to a frequency of 20 muscle-pulls six to eight times a day . |
| 29 | Begin by exercising moderately for 5–10 minutes per day , and build up gradually over a period of a month . |
| 30 | You were rolled up tight as a mummy in canvas , then water was poured on it . |