Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 2 | Take it away and bring me about a quarter of it . ’ |
| 3 | On another subject could someone who is going to the game pick me up a match programme . |
| 4 | Hazel stakes are unquestionably the best but when I caught rabbits professionally I had the estate make me up a set of iron stakes of only ⅜ inch ( 1 centimetre ) diameter , with a small shoulder at the top to prevent the top line sliding down the stake . |
| 5 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
| 6 | But the prison system — not particularly capital punishment — but the penal system as it is , and the whole apparatus of judgement , people deciding on other people 's fates … that does irritate , and upset me quite a lot . ’ |
| 7 | A better approach is to adopt a serial approach and solve them over a number of stages . |
| 8 | He glanced at his watch , became distracted : ‘ Forgive me just a moment — kitchen duties . |
| 9 | I mean you mi then you might have said , well actually I want someone here a bit quicker and then they would have done something else . |
| 10 | ‘ I want you upstairs a moment , ’ she said . |
| 11 | I used to drop in to have a word with the old man — cheer him up a bit . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , I 'll have a look at her while I 'm here , cheer her up a bit . ’ |
| 13 | You know , hold her hand and cheer her up a bit . |
| 14 | Butter him up a bit . |
| 15 | knock her about a bit , then steal her seed . |
| 16 | ‘ Good job you do , ’ she went on , ‘ because I cook it once a week to give the tins a good clean out . ’ |
| 17 | Right , well nothing 's happened here , let's just stick a bunsen under it , warm it up a bit , get it moving . |
| 18 | ‘ If you take a map of disadvantage and press it over a map of crime , there is too close a coincidence , ’ he said in his annual report last month . |
| 19 | Is he erm bring himself down a bit to Nick 's level , cos Nick and has n't really got any position ? |
| 20 | And you can look at it one way , and say , oh I 've got , I 've got two rows here with six in , and space them out a bit so , or give him that so he 's got sort of , two rows with six in , and you say , oh from where you 're looking at it , it 's six rows with two in . |
| 21 | Forest-living Indians catch them and roast them over a fire so that the poison drips from their skins . |
| 22 | I wish I could give these women their time again , to take them to the hills and show them what they could have shared with their selfish husbands , show them how a ridge-walk compares to a coffee morning in a draughty church hall , and how they could have become more in tune with their spirit and feelings up here than stuck down there watching television soap operas . |
| 23 | ‘ Corsages were kept in a little drop of water , ’ Harry explained , ‘ but you ca n't plunge a bouquet in a drop of water , so I put them over a bowl of water supported by two canes . |
| 24 | But some of my friends would never tell their brothers a thing like that ; their brothers put them down a lot . |
| 25 | ‘ Let me down a bit more ! ’ |
| 26 | Well I think you can look at it on two levels and one , one reason is to change the Party structure shake them up a bit , cos there 's , there 's evidence that they were erm you know moving to the right and allying with er rich peasants and landlords , and the other , on the level is actually having a policy which would get mass support and this obviously would require incentives in the form of land to peasants . |
| 27 | Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them . |
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| 29 | your horn and cut him up a bit . |
| 30 | It 's just the pocket really let's turn you round a bit see if it hurts it 's just the way it is I 'm afraid see if we can open it up and spread it out a bit . |