Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 fifteen , yeah I put them on get a drink On are they
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 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
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 The man who had shown me in reached a pewter tankard down from the Welsh dresser and filled it with champagne .
11 It had me in stitches a lot of the time and definitely was n't just for the kids . ’
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 ‘ To do that , you take a lot of identical molecules called amines and join them together to form a chain .
14 You wired them together to make a kind of pyramid .
15 ‘ Promise me only to stay a week . ’
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Accordingly , I duly had a site meeting with Mr. George on 4th June .
21 I badly need a drink and I need to talk to you . ’
22 I badly needed a holiday . ’
23 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 .
24 I eventually got a chance to read the South Wales Aggregates Working Party 's Regional Commentary which has been sitting on my desk for months .
25 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 .
26 so , you know , I looked under the bonnet , I could n't understand it at all tt , er , so I eventually got a lift and got a ride down into Malham and er , went in the telephone box there
27 I eventually saw a specialist who prescribed something to ‘ kick-start ’ my periods .
28 I eventually saw a report about striking miners on American TV .
29 I rather like a lot of the G Plan stuff I like very much .
30 I 'd had no leave and , what with one thing and another , I rather wanted a break .
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