Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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1 | Swallows and house martins have dispensed with them altogether to gain a clear view of the insects they catch on the wing . |
2 | Not all Thom 's conclusions are fully accepted , but to understand them properly requires a knowledge of mathematics , statistics , surveying , astronomy , and archaeology — not a common combination . |
3 | fifteen , yeah I put them on get a drink On are they |
4 | The tale that tickled me most concerns a trip to England — a country which Rollins caricatures as a pissing-with-rain hell hole populated entirely by spotty Morrissey-worshipping wimps who eat nothing but fish and potatoes smeared with grease . |
5 | While C2 Certificate holders would normally proceed directly into employment , there should , however , be opportunities for some students to acquire credits allowing them eventually to obtain a C1 Certificate . |
6 | Arboreal rodents , primates , and many other mammals take to the trees as an escape route and the majority of them rarely risk a descent to the ground unless it is vitally necessary . |
7 | You let them in to have a laugh at them or you let them in because you want to listen to what they 're saying . |
8 | What about getting those children as they go out a voucher that their parents can bring them along to see a show at a reduced rate . |
9 | Nothing so riled a sixteenth-century conquistadore as the knowledge that some men indulged in sodomy , and Balboa felt no compunction in setting the dreadful war-dogs on the culprits and having them tom to pieces in full public view . |
10 | Nothing so unfits a woman for producing good work , or for living usefully . |
11 | It is said that nothing so concentrates a man 's mind as the knowledge that he is to be hanged in the morning . |
12 | Organizations are arenas within which some things will tend to hang together and be adopted by power-players as a bundle , while other forms of combination may be far less likely to occur as a coherent package , perhaps because they are less coherent or because the alliance which could make them so lacks a position in the field of power to be able to constitute the necessity of its choices . |
13 | The man who had shown me in reached a pewter tankard down from the Welsh dresser and filled it with champagne . |
14 | It had me in stitches a lot of the time and definitely was n't just for the kids . ’ |
15 | ‘ To do that , you take a lot of identical molecules called amines and join them together to form a chain . |
16 | The drafter may be tempted to adopt a 'scissors and paste " approach , drawing individual clauses from a number of precedents and putting them together to form a finished product . |
17 | ‘ These service industries can provide a better short-term financial return but real sustainable growth must be founded on manufacturing industries which add real value to raw materials by combining them together to form a product for which people are prepared to pay a premium , ’ he added . |
18 | However , the departmental system of budgeting contains no mechanism to identify those individual parts , nor any mechanism to bring them together to give a total for orthopaedic surgery . |
19 | The large numbers of retired people , the tourists , the workers in the primary industries ( mining , quarrying , fishing and farming ) and the workers in the secondary industries ( manufacturing ) — all of them together need a great many services , or tertiary industries . |
20 | You wired them together to make a kind of pyramid . |
21 | er , at the back page about nine inch by six wi you , were cut-outs and you cut it out and stuck them together to make a little paper , well , thick paper model . |
22 | ‘ Promise me only to stay a week . ’ |
23 | Someone somewhere wants a |
24 | I instinctively had a quick look but I could n't see a damned thing . |
25 | I loosely tossed a swirl of Moroccan curtain over the sofa , slid Act 3 of Orfeo onto the revolving mat , lit an Al Akhbar joss-stick , and left it at that . |
26 | I rarely saw a lesson in which the students had not gone to some considerable length to vary their material and their activities to take account of the level of the class , the length of the lesson and the time of day or week . |
27 | I rarely made a comment on what someone was wearing ; we would sit in a park or café or at home discussing image , beauty , fashion and advertising , and skirt around the more obvious , immediate issues of how we both looked , how we were dressed . |
28 | I duly sent a copy to Eliot ; and although lie showed interest , I think it possible that he never read it through , as the following letter shows . |
29 | Accordingly , I duly had a site meeting with Mr. George on 4th June . |
30 | May I say that I wholeheartedly support a big increase in the tax on petrol ( even though I 'm a motorist myself ) . |