Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well if there 's , if there 's not many people sitting in the day room , perhaps we can pinch one , all the stools seem to be taken there are n't many spare in there , can we pinch a couple of chairs please ? |
| 2 | Dutch 's owner Ron Smith , f rom Manor Road , said : ‘ He has won a lot of championships already including best of breed . |
| 3 | Dorcas sat and twiddled a bit of wire aimlessly . |
| 4 | Alongside some respectable advisers , he seems to attract a rabble of supporters more loyal to the man than to the cause . |
| 5 | His mock-learned apparatus — appendices , maps of Middle-Earth and indexes — suggest a sense of erudition amiably mixed with bonhomie and fun ; his no-nonsense Christianity a hunger for the spiritual and a yearning for roots . |
| 6 | One day the law may re-examine the place in our law of combination and of the ‘ chasm ’ between lawful and unlawful acts which exists in the case of an individual , but the latest judicial pronouncements suggest a retreat from liability rather than an advance towards a principle that the intentional infliction of harm without justification is actionable . |
| 7 | The eyes cleared , the relaxed body tightened , and Gerald Seymour-Strachey cast a glance at Greg almost quizzical . |
| 8 | You do n't need a line to God now to see the way things are going . |
| 9 | ‘ However , rural schools provide a kind of heterogeneity rarely found in urban or suburban settings — heterogeneity of social class . |
| 10 | Notice that the right shift truncates the result ; some computers provide a version of arithmetic right shift which adds to the right-hand bit position of the result the value of the last bit shifted out . |
| 11 | Of the less well known Indian appointments , a place in the Indian Marine also attracted a number of Scots even though it was based at unpopular Bombay , for it was a service which promoted by seniority , and death from wounds or disease could allow the rapid elevation of a healthy midshipman to a position of command . |
| 12 | Try to write a couple of paragraphs here about why the job exists . |
| 13 | For departures 20 July , 17 August and 14 September , the tour detailed above incorporates a stay in Kashmir instead of Nepal . |
| 14 | But the revolt against Labour in the housing schemes , which it was promising at the start of the campaign , never materialised , and its prediction that it would win a majority of seats now looks silly . |
| 15 | Sometimes a party will win a period of office outright ; more commonly perhaps two or more parties will share power . |
| 16 | More specifically , Roman portraits embodied a set of virtues traditionally valued by the Roman people . |
| 17 | If there are any other Schnauzers like me out there , please send a photo to Dogs Today so I can see . |
| 18 | I mean we have dealings with solicitors for all sorts of things , asking for reports and we send a lot of notes away to have a lot of er medical opinion reports and they take ages to come back . |
| 19 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG indicates that it is to follow Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA in offering Eo Corp 's Eo 440 and Eo 880 personal digital assistants — and presumably it will buy a stake in Eo too . |
| 20 | Tonight I feel I 'd enjoy a pint of ale more than a text from the New Testament . |
| 21 | She enjoyed uncovering a corner of brick enough to insert the trowel blade beneath it and twist , and prise it slowly out of its bed . |
| 22 | Merrill stapled a batch of papers together . |
| 23 | What is not perhaps as well understood is the art of keeping a range of invertebrates together without such conflicts . |
| 24 | ‘ It is to adapt our traditional role of peace-keeping and try to establish a pattern of stability even though it may be only on a very temporary basis . ’ |
| 25 | Today it had doubled , crossed from one side of his forehead to the other , and reinforced a series of furrows rather than wrinkles , that made his broad white forehead look like a new-ploughed field covered in snow . |
| 26 | I think it was copied from Victoria , Victoria had a lot of influence upon women obviously , she had a lot of children ; women too , women , apart from the fact there was no effective contraception , it was the duty of woman to bear a lot of children so that they could carry on the line , which was also why woman had to be very chaste and pure so that man could be sure that the son that she produced was actually his legitimate heir . |
| 27 | My bone marrow was harvested a couple of weeks ago and the whole thing was a piece of cake . |
| 28 | And she 's dropped a tin of paint all over her trainers . |
| 29 | ( iv ) Teachers should discuss a variety of works so as to bring out the range and effects of different types of sound patterning , eg alliteration , assonance , rhymes , onomatopoeia , and of figures of speech , eg similes , metaphors , personifications . |
| 30 | My right hon. Friend the Chancellor has had a number of discussions with the Council of Mortgage Lenders and others , and he will be announcing a package of measures later this afternoon . |