Example sentences of "[vb infin] 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 | You do n't need a line to God now to see the way things are going . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sometimes a party will win a period of office outright ; more commonly perhaps two or more parties will share power . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Tonight I feel I 'd enjoy a pint of ale more than a text from the New Testament . |
| 7 | ( 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 . |
| 8 | We shall introduce a system of measurements so that people in different local authority areas will know precisely to what standard their local services are being provided . |
| 9 | Also during their first round of talks Li signalled that he would seriously consider a proposal by Kaifu jointly to submit a plan to the UN for a register to track the international arms trade . |
| 10 | ‘ Surely you can survive a couple of days apart ? |
| 11 | Any approach that makes doubt a problem of faith rather than a problem of knowledge is wrong . |
| 12 | Mr Johnstone said the group could no longer guarantee a bed for life regardless of whether residents were privately funded or eligible for income support . |
| 13 | That his own son could achieve a measure of success so late in the day is the greatest single indication of Æthelred 's incapacity , and hints at the resilience of English government . |
| 14 | Obviously parents must show a degree of control here and do as I do by restricting playing time , although that is admittedly difficult with all these portable devices now on the market . |
| 15 | But you can not understand or study a subject from notes alone , as too many students try to do . |
| 16 | He does n't speak a word of English though , everything you say to him , he just goes love it . |
| 17 | Best thing to do is do a bit of gardening then go in and bake the bread . |
| 18 | Slim Boswell would soon do a bit of trade there . ’ |
| 19 | I better do a check for gas here . |
| 20 | I 'll do a cup of tea anyway . |
| 21 | Do you do a lot of overtime then ? |
| 22 | So it would actually be very straightforward to do this , although not a couple of problems in this model that we ought to just say something about alright , the specification of four does present a couple of problems right . |
| 23 | How do you bring a group of people together to work on an equal basis when half the members of the group are experienced non-disabled professionals who are used to taking control ? |
| 24 | The fellow said he did n't give a fig about life so why should he fear death ? |
| 25 | I shall give a quotation from Sayre simply to show the difference between the approaches to such issues as consciousness in the AI tradition and in the cybernetics tradition ; both , after all , are concerned with the implications of intelligent machines for consciousness , etc . |
| 26 | The proposal , submitted by Mid-Hants Railway plc , will give a group of enthusiasts somewhere to store and repair old buses and coaches . |
| 27 | I do n't carry a lot of weight now , in spite of all my gold braid . |
| 28 | you know if people wan na smoke a bit of pot then this is |
| 29 | I do n't really know where I , or I know where I 'm going but I have to take the troops with me I had er , I got you see what is parts of a I A P compact certificate it might in fact , if the boss would let me do , if I could do an industry in December right ? |
| 30 | The mess of my life , the selfishnesses and false turnings and the treacheries , all these things could fall into place , they could become a source of construction rather than a source of chaos , and precisely because I had no other choice . |