Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb base] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But cows must be milked twice a day , every day of the year , so if you are a dairying smallholder you must find your recreation in the variations within the farm . |
| 2 | A few moments later , you should have converted a printed page into a text file you can load into your word processor . |
| 3 | Unless you have recently became a Contract Volunteer you will find with this newsletter a Mailings and Materials sheet which I would like you to fill in . |
| 4 | At a horse show anyone can recognise the horse that is saying , ‘ You 're annoying me ! ’ , by the swishing of its tail ; or the horse that announces to its spurred rider , ‘ You 're hurting my sides ! ’ , by tightened muscles making a clear line along the lower edge of its ribcage ; or the halter horse , taut with anxiety and showing the whites of its eyes , telling all but its insensitive handler that it is afraid ! |
| 5 | ‘ I felt that by fracturing the well in conjunction with a gravel pack we could produce a ‘ highway ’ into the reservoir that would allow it to produce at peak efficiency , ’ says Hannah , a consulting production engineer . |
| 6 | If I had a wedding ring I would give it back . |
| 7 | now if you 're a football fan you 'll have been crossing the days out on the calendar for a couple of months now … the supporters scarf will have been washed and ironed and sitting ready for weeks … and by my calculation you 've only got one hundred and sixteen hours left to the big kick off … so here 's a taster |
| 8 | ‘ If I ever get like that about a football match I 'll shoot myself . |
| 9 | During a panic attack we may feel our heart beating very fast and very hard , our bodies begin to sweat very heavily , we may feel unreal , faint , dizzy , and nauseous as blood is pumped away from the head and the stomach . |
| 10 | Did n't for a moment think you 'd want them out of your sight . |
| 11 | If your eighth selection is a score draw you would have quite a useful dividend to come , depending , of course , upon the number of drawn games in any given week . |
| 12 | Mark says that if it 's a fuel leak I can chuck down a lighted match , but I can tell he 's only joking . |
| 13 | Collegians seemed to be heading for a shock win which would have ruined Western 's chances of a possible date with Lisnagarvey in tomorrow 's final when winger David Hutchison put them in front with a superb solo effort in the 20th minute . |
| 14 | For a comedy touch you could add a small sign saying ‘ nice to see you ’ . |
| 15 | If you live in a flat provided with chutes or containers in a bin store you MUST use them . |
| 16 | Each object has handles attached to corner points , curves , and so on , so that you can tweak the lines into the right shape very easily ; whereas with a paint program you 'd undo the line and try again . |
| 17 | If you want to use three or four colours in one row on a Passap/Pfaff machine you will need to punch your card or mark your mylar sheet especially for the design but you need to mark only one row at a time as the machine automatically knits the two rows . |
| 18 | If you wanted to describe the position of the pieces on a chess board you could use a 2 dimensional array . |
| 19 | Say it 's only twenty six years and course with a pension see you can increase your contributions . |
| 20 | On a sliding-fence tablesaw you can square off the other edge . |
| 21 | A couple say they may move out of their house just two weeks after moving in because they 've become the target of thieves . |
| 22 | ‘ As I have said repeatedly I believe that in a one-off Test you must give the visiting side a 50–50 chance , even us after our isolation . |
| 23 | At a running start you should plan to start at the downwind end . |
| 24 | As a standalone machine I would 've given it a fourth star . |
| 25 | If you are one of the small minority with an EDSI drive you can add up to seven additional drives . |