Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has a repeated ‘ kik ’ note , and a ‘ song ’ rendered as ‘ wait , wait ’ uttered slowly on a rising or falling scale . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Asquith demurred , and also responded discouragingly to a suggestion that they might all serve under Balfour . |
| 4 | The lorry rolled on to a car after its rear wheels were hit by another car which had lost control . |
| 5 | Butyl liners can be repaired successfully with a patch and special adhesive ( it 's rather like repairing a puncture in a cycle inner-tube ) . |
| 6 | Hounded to her death by a cruel mother-in-law , neglected by her husband … the same husband who 'd carried on with a woman when she was hardly cold in her grave . |
| 7 | Paintings which beg to be viewed at a distance , one by one , are squeezed together in a room as narrow , bare and poorly lit as a urinal in an airport . |
| 8 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 9 | Except that even with costume and make-up the star had looked less like a pirate than Nathan Bryce did at this moment . |
| 10 | ‘ At the most , they are confined only for a century or two . |
| 11 | Increasingly , plants are seen as an integral part of any office complex and are not something to be considered only during a refurbishment or initial build . |
| 12 | I do n't think he conceived ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ as a concept album , but the songs slotted together in a way that it became a concept , and the way he presented it on stage , how he wanted to look , how the boy 's costumes looked ( facsimiles of his — though his were patterned and theirs were simple ) meant that he 'd breathe life into a concept hero . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The first process is in part an aspect of the interaction of men grouped together in a society and engaged in production . |
| 16 | The solution was to add a form of the hormone progesterone so that the lining was shed not as a period but as an artificial withdrawal bleed . |
| 17 | Although composition through improvisation is the major thrust of this department 's practice , this is carried through in a manner that allows children to become skilled in the basic techniques of certain musical instruments . |
| 18 | Thus , it is argued that where conversion is probable , the debt should be reported not as a liability but as , or near , equity . |
| 19 | What if the rain increased and they were trapped underground by a flood that washed them away down one of those awful little squeezes ? |
| 20 | ‘ And I suppose you 've come home for a day or two 's holiday ? |
| 21 | Stealing had come more as a necessity than anything else . |
| 22 | On the bedside table , he was in the act of placing a Bible , so that he may have dropped off into a doze while reading it . |
| 23 | He was carried off on a stretcher when the game was only 10 minutes old , after he had flown into a tackle from behind on Dean Saunders . |
| 24 | As head of government from 1985 to 1988 , Mr Junejo often looked more like a schoolteacher than a political leader and was a strict disciplinarian . |
| 25 | Bradshaw himself got picked off by a thirty-footer and lost his board . |
| 26 | There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly . |
| 27 | Daniel Galvin in London has come up with a treatment that takes only thirty minutes and rather than causing a dramatic change , it softly camouflages grey hair with a subtle , natural-looking colour . |
| 28 | No hi-fi speaker maker has ever come up with a woofer that low and resonant . |
| 29 | The atmosphere moves from hard bop to cajun crunch and , for once , Billy boy has come up with a record that justifies all the praise that has been heaped on his shoulders . |
| 30 | A RESEARCHER with IBM has come up with a device that might possibly replace the transistor in integrated circuit devices . |