Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primary teacher can draw upon many of these to provide a lead in to a topic , or to develop a theme or push forward an enquiry . |
| 2 | City analysts expect it to pass its final dividend , or make only a token pay-out . |
| 3 | Supposing , against the odds , the Tories scrape home , or cobble together a working majority , the day-after rally could be spectacular . |
| 4 | If it is your intention to set a cat among the pigeons or let loose an eagle in the dovecote , you do n't send a postcard in advance announcing your intentions . ’ |
| 5 | Paragraph 610 of the Bar code provides , first : ’ Counsel must not make statements or ask questions which are merely scandalous or intended or calculated only to vilify insult or annoy either a witness or some other person ; counsel must if possible avoid the naming in open Court of third parties whose characters would thereby be impugned ; counsel must not suggest that a witness or other person is guilty of crime , fraud or misconduct or attribute to another person the crime or conduct of which his lay client is accused ’ |
| 6 | Many Down 's babies are miscarried , stillborn or live only a few days . |
| 7 | Then I 'm going to take another triangular bandage and I 'm going to open it up and make just a little fold , this is going to go on her forehead and that little fold just helps with keeping it firm and stopping the bandage slip , now , just put it around the forehead like that , okay ? |
| 8 | and make quite a bit of money |
| 9 | Under these circumstances , it is not surprising that objective measurements are not commonplace in clinical practice and remain largely a research tool . |
| 10 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 11 | Ann Winterton , Tory MP for Congleton , called for a full legal review and a policy decision by the Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , to examine the options and bring forward a new law . |
| 12 | And behold , thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son , and shalt call his name Jesus . |
| 13 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 14 | Beneath the castle he proposes to open a bay in the woods and build there a cottage that ‘ will give an air of cheerfulness and inhabitancy to the scene which would without it be too sombre , because the castle tho ’ perfectly in character with the solemn dignity of the surrounding woods , increases rather than relieves the apparent solitude ’ . |
| 15 | The Gazza of old would have been tempted to flick that ball in the air and juggle away an outstanding chance for his team . |
| 16 | Your recollections will no doubt revive a lot of memories for many of our older readers and provide quite a few talking points for younger ones . |
| 17 | And cut quite a bit off the top |
| 18 | Plants such as shepherd 's needles , pheasant 's eye , corn gromwell , corn cockle and mousetail flourish in farmland that is lightly tilled and cut once a year . |
| 19 | England 's best known bridge was built across the Thames in 1888–94 , and cost over a million pounds . |
| 20 | The tattoo was a moment 's impulse and cost just a few pounds , but now it 's taking up the time and resources of the NHS . |
| 21 | I knew he hoped to take the treasure , cut every honest throat on that island , find and board the Hispaniola at night , and sail away a rich man and a murderer . |
| 22 | He was dropping one of his tools and let forth a number of obscenities . |
| 23 | It was nice to fill up with Perrier till your bladder was bursting , then go in the gents and let forth a good stream . |
| 24 | Bob caught her by the shoulder and used his own to wipe her face , while John turned on the woman and let loose a volley of dismissive French . |
| 25 | Alan Clayson 's attempt to paint a clearer picture is severely hampered by Harrison 's refusal to co-operate , thus leaving Clayson to read every press clipping , interview anyone who ever knew him , and cobble together a book out of it . |
| 26 | Alan Clayson 's attempt to paint a clearer picture is severely hampered by Harrison 's refusal to co-operate , thus leaving Clayson to read every press clipping , interview anyone who ever knew him , and cobble together a book out of it . |
| 27 | The first was an ace , the second opened up in court well enough for him to steam in and put away a brilliant backhand volley . |
| 28 | ‘ The traditional British way of doing things in international sporting bodies is to go to the body and put forward a sensible , fair and balanced objective and assume then that everybody will vote for it . |
| 29 | In the face of the dreadful attacks on police officers , the Home Office should have put together an urgent review team which should have incorporated other Departments and put forward a package of measures . |
| 30 | Maikov , prime mover in the relatively mild first volume , deplored chair-bound intellectuals in a discussion of the word " Academic " and put forward a " great man " view of history in the discussion of " Authority " . |