Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [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 | Right , just sit down for a minute and let's , Michael read his first . |
| 5 | Sit down with a pen and paper and make a list of the things you have wanted to do in the past few years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's advertising . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And then they would spring down with a howl and rush to embrace her . |
| 17 | Alexandra sank on to a stool and bowed her head . |
| 18 | So I told the machine what it was about , and moved on to a golfer and one of the Black and White minstrels . ’ |
| 19 | Clytemnestra agreed vociferously , leaping on to a stool and screeching hysterically at sight of her lead . |
| 20 | Meryl Sank down on a window-seat and listened ; already the house was uncannily quiet . |
| 21 | Emily sank down into a chair and studied the pages closely , controlling the urge to slap the insolent hussy 's pretty face . |
| 22 | She sank down into a chair and watched as Craig knelt before the fire , building it back into a glowing warmth . |
| 23 | When the carriage was out of sight , she sank down into a chair and put her hands over her face . |
| 24 | We were , yes , cos that 's when I went on to the crane driving in for a crane and got it you see , that 's why I finished up as a crane driver until I went stevedoring . |
| 25 | As Rafiq disappeared out of sight at the top of the stairs , Maisie staggered in with a step-ladder and started to put up black drapes at the windows . |
| 26 | There was nothing in the least bit objectionable about him , but he looked as though he had a computer where his heart was , and rushed home at night to plug in to a socket and recharge the batteries . |
| 27 | It was quite pointless having a runner who saw the whole thing as a social outing and had once even sat down in a kitchen and said she 'd just rest for a minute . |
| 28 | Then I turned to the other side of the coin — the Civil War that might break out , even if Reunion were voted in by a majority and approved by the Dáil . |
| 29 | It was Viola , helped along by a policeman and a fireman , weeping uncontrollably , her old legs hardly able to bear her , even with support on either side . |
| 30 | At one end world superstars wrestling their megabucks motors round unnavigable corners at speeds to make your hair curl and , at the other end , Herr Kahlfuss and his chum tootling along on a nod and a wink . |