Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If people want to go swimming in early evening or early morning we would advise them to go to a swimming pool , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 2 | Teesside Crown Court was told Ninham had offered to give the boys money for fireworks and encouraged them to go for a walk with him and his dog . |
| 3 | And they 'll actually sit down and work that out for people and encourage them to go for a job and give them all the forms they need to claim Family Credit or whatever . |
| 4 | Well , we 're getting them to go for a hundred , which sounds a lot , but the ground 's quite variable so , you know , some of it is really good planting land and some of it is n't , so , you know , it 'll be up to the teams to go for as many as they can . |
| 5 | It is overladen with tear-jerking moments , most of them centred on a big eyed calf that Crystal , roped in as mid- wife , delivers onscreen in the film 's only spot of blood and gore . |
| 6 | Andy , my anaesthesiologist , gave me a smile and a pre-med jab and left me to float in a warm sea-green calm which was interrupted by the slap of rubber swing-doors and a breathless , ‘ Hi , my name 's Nudleman . |
| 7 | Having survived a British pre-qualifying event last week for a wild card place in this week 's draw , Ahl said she felt she had nothing to lose against a player who is about 200 places higher in the world rankings . |
| 8 | Vases in the Marine Style , including rhytons , bridge-spouted jugs and three-handled amphoras , are decorated with triton shells , argonauts , octopuses , starfish , rocks and seaweed — all of them treated in a free and fluid way . |
| 9 | You do n't honestly expect me to agree to a statement like that , do you ? ’ he snapped violently . |
| 10 | ‘ The trouble is that I know that all the time he 's only trying to ingratiate himself in order to get me to agree to a merger . |
| 11 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 12 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 13 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 14 | This figure declined slightly for older children , a growing proportion of whom lived with a natural parent and a step-parent . |
| 15 | ‘ No-one goes into a loose scrum with the intention of inflicting injury on an opponent . |
| 16 | No disrespect to my conveyancing brethren but I would n't let them loose on a guilty plea of going the wrong way round a keep left sign . |
| 17 | The US Congress at the end of March 1988 allocated humanitarian aid to the contras which enabled them to continue as a force , but Nicaragua from May 1988 unilaterally extended the Sapoá ceasefire on a monthly basis throughout 1988 and for most of 1989 [ see pp. 36421-22 ; 36681 ; see also below ] . |
| 18 | Surely the proper response to this is to help the mining communities to find other employment , not to pay them to continue in a rather dangerous occupation . |
| 19 | Take the baskets that hold them out of the pool and allow them to drain for an hour . |
| 20 | The glass before them became like a mirror for the briefest time but it was a distorting , ghost-train mirror , more shadow than substance-with his mind adding hallucinatory details to the little that he could see . |
| 21 | Fleischmann then showed a proposal that he and Pons had submitted to the Department of Energy ( DOE ) in Washington requesting financial support for them to carry through a definitive series of experiments over a period of three years . |
| 22 | I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape ! |
| 23 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 24 | Most of them arose as a result of an all-Russian phenomenon in 1922 — the lack of co-ordination and exchange of information between the centre and the localities , together with nonchalant neglect of provincial problems so long as they did not affect central political issues . |
| 25 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 26 | In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from . |
| 27 | While this may mean working only one day less per week , that one day may provide a vital breathing space for women like Alice Perkins , working in demanding , pressurised jobs , and it may just allow them to remain on a career path that will take them into positions of power . |
| 28 | Everyone sits in a circle with one child , possibly the birthday girl , being ‘ Sleeping Beauty ’ in the middle blindfolded . |
| 29 | Everyone sits in a circle with one person sitting blindfolded in the middle . |
| 30 | Everyone sits in a circle with an unbreakable plate in the centre . |