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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nothing so unfits a woman for producing good work , or for living usefully . |
| 8 | It is said that nothing so concentrates a man 's mind as the knowledge that he is to be hanged in the morning . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ To do that , you take a lot of identical molecules called amines and join them together to form a chain . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You wired them together to make a kind of pyramid . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Promise me only to stay a week . ’ |
| 18 | Someone somewhere wants a |
| 19 | I instinctively had a quick look but I could n't see a damned thing . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Accordingly , I duly had a site meeting with Mr. George on 4th June . |
| 25 | May I say that I wholeheartedly support a big increase in the tax on petrol ( even though I 'm a motorist myself ) . |
| 26 | I badly need a drink and I need to talk to you . ’ |
| 27 | I badly needed a holiday . ’ |
| 28 | It is perhaps significant that whereas Haycocks I eventually produced a DES Circular , this one was issued only as an ACSTT Report , endorsed by the Advisory Committee as a whole and over the signature of the Chairman of the Sub-Committee . |
| 29 | After some weeks of work in London gathering material from such places as the Canary Wharf Tower , Millbank Tower and the roof of the Economist Building , I eventually spotted a tower block across the Thames from the City which I thought must have an amazing vantage point . |
| 30 | His ring record alone demanded the attention of the BBBC and he believed that : ‘ It was through public opinion that I eventually got a title . |