Example sentences of "your [noun sg] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea that a runner can win more by not trying too hard is not likely to be well received in the hard-bitten commercial world of sports retailing , but if the winter miles are currently very wearisome and every race is a struggle to gain a few seconds , you might try leaving your watch off at a race or two and see if the Zarei approach puts a bit of the enjoyment back into running . |
| 2 | To create a Chignon , tie your hair back with a band and put the Flexi Comb around the ponytail . |
| 3 | Linking hands , they whispered their love for one another , and although they were kept physically apart by those old granite stones , they were in another sense brought close together by them , for it is curiously easier to give your heart away through a hole in the wall than to swear your fidelity between the sheets of a feather bed . |
| 4 | The dodgy S & M imagery of ‘ Raping A Slave ’ ( actually a meditation on power and work ) and other included tracks form the ‘ Young God ’ EP and the still-withering power of ‘ Cop ’ ( ‘ Nobody burns your skin off like a cop ’ ) amidst the all-powerful monotony show that we 've lost something along the way . |
| 5 | ‘ As soon as you get round the corner , put your foot down for a couple of blocks . |
| 6 | ( b ) then thrust your foot out in a straight line |
| 7 | You put your guitar down for a second , and just as you turn away there 's a horrible discordant ker-draanngg ! , accompanied , if you 're unlucky , by the even more expensive noise of your headstock suddenly leaving the band to embark on a solo career . |
| 8 | Land with your legs together , knees bent , on the balls of your feet , with your forearms protecting your head , and roll on to your side just like a paratrooper does . |
| 9 | At time it feels like a matter of survival against the elements , keeping your boat upright in a strong breeze . |
| 10 | See when we go normally there 's no time limit , but busy week you have a we had the orange armbands , you , you trade your key in for an or orange armband |
| 11 | Whereabouts will you take erm your action personally at a local |
| 12 | The only thing that 's keeping your neck out of a noose is that little set-up you 've got going in Longrock . |
| 13 | I do n't know how many people know this , but if you 're in custody and you have council accommodation , the council will only pay your rent up to a year . |
| 14 | The skill is running down the beach with all your equipment often in a stiff breeze . |
| 15 | A third option is to part-sell your home either for a capital sum or regular payments , under a home income plan , and continue to live in it for as long as you wish . |
| 16 | The washing liquid in Shell fuels cleans inside your engine just as a washing machine cleans your clothes . |
| 17 | Dress your child up in a clown outfit and paint on a sad face . |
| 18 | ‘ If you can do your dance tonight without a band rehearsal , I 'll play a lovely melody . ’ |
| 19 | If you own a computer it is worthwhile entering all your vocabulary on to a disk from early on in your programme . |
| 20 | This the movies , so we accept that someone who burgles you home , hacks your safe out of a wall with an axe and steals all your savings may be one helluva guy . |
| 21 | ‘ I need your help just for a few minutes . |
| 22 | Engage an independent consultant today ( there are still one or two good ones left ) and arrange to take your team away for a couple of days to brainstorm out a vision of success for the next two to five years . |
| 23 | Cos if you take your eye off for a second , bang somebody 's there ! |
| 24 | Do not proceed until you have refined your aim down to a single prime objective and your message down to a single one sentence statement . |
| 25 | ‘ Would you not like to take your ease indoors on a bad night like this ? ’ |
| 26 | Then you turn your attention away in a minute and the rotten devils do |
| 27 | If you 're on too friendly terms with him , you may be in danger of not doing your job properly as a governor , because it can be quite difficult to stand back from somebody in an objective way when you know them too well or are too closely involved with them . |
| 28 | A breakfast that leaves you feeling full gets your diet off to a great start . |
| 29 | Aim to alter your diet gradually over a period of six months . |
| 30 | She supposed it was magic , probably it only happened when you swung your head up in a certain way , she would test that tomorrow , and as she dropped asleep it lay alongside the tickets of paper with the numbers she had written , and the tar bubbles and the sun that made red horses and brown splotches when she closed her eyes . |