Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases , as where the persons entitled are not of age , or not yet in existence , or not to be found , an executor or administrator will have to retain the property in his hands for a considerable time , though he may sometimes relieve himself by a payment or transfer into court , and in any case he can obtain the direction of the courts when doubts arise as to the proper course which he should take . |
| 2 | Use a variety and put it in more than one spot , if you have space , to allow more birds to feed at one time . |
| 3 | On uneven ground use a base and peg it down or use stones to steady it . |
| 4 | A parents and toddlers group , toy library , bulk buy groups , senior citizens clubs , adult learning classes , bingo , whist drives and all sorts of fund raising activities can use the room as a base and add to the income of the school . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was that , or frustration , or , more probable still , a queer kind of prudery — he would rather his mother thought him a brute than realize what we had been up to — that made him hit me . |
| 6 | Gosh , it 's 9.00pm already , what d' you say we get a carry-out and come back ? |
| 7 | The families sit through a trial and feel short-changed by the sentence handed down . ’ |
| 8 | Set a limited period for a trial and establish what you will try out and how you will test the results . |
| 9 | A 1940 War Office file on possible invasion sites states that Bawdsey is a ‘ Category A risk , liable to a seaborne attack , probably a smash-and-grab raid by up to 100 men , launched from a submarine or ship offshore ’ . |
| 10 | Well we used to get a bucket and throw it over the v over like that . |
| 11 | I watched him dip into a bucket and throw a scoopful of water on to the hot stones of the fire . |
| 12 | Do n't throw any two products into a bucket and mix them ; they may well destroy each other . |
| 13 | Once in , they had to dive for a golf ball , put it in a bucket and return to the trapeze to do it all again — fun eh ! |
| 14 | But erm and then at during er before lunch and all that I used to have to go take a bucket and go to the smithy and erm as you may know , there 's a a cooling er tank beside in the in er beside every every every erm blacksmith 's fire and er you know to bo keep the er no t no to keep the nozzle of the |
| 15 | Or change a fuse or mend a chair . |
| 16 | No longer are my positive and negative leads just hanging free about to blow a fuse or allow my personal electricity to seep away . |
| 17 | The problem comes when you meet a horizontal nogging — the positions of which you can determine with a joist and batten detector . |
| 18 | Water , having penetrated the roofing felt ( this could even be in the middle of the roof ) , could run along a joist and give problems with the wall . |
| 19 | Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's . |
| 20 | During a gathering of families at beautiful Seal Park , to christen a grandchild and celebrate the return of the good life after the War , a battle for succession is resolved in Country ( BBC-2 9.00pm ) continuing ‘ The Richard Eyre Season ’ . |
| 21 | I want to look like a racehorse and have long hair and Jim , that 's what I want . |
| 22 | You 've got a squadron that need a training course . |
| 23 | And he concluded with a half-smile that put the girl in a condition of partial ecstasy . |
| 24 | Mrs Bauwens will seek a retrial of a case that cost £250,000 over seven dramatic days at the High Court . |
| 25 | ‘ Pack a case and do n't be long — jeans , tops , a dress or two and perhaps one formal outfit . ’ |
| 26 | I 'd slave my guts out on a case and think I 'd got it settled and a week later the woman would turn up in my office with the same dreary tale . |
| 27 | I ca n't find a bit that Give me the pencil and let me show you . |
| 28 | Then around eight we would get cleaned up a bit and drive over to see Nigel , a forty-mile round trip . |
| 29 | A number of changes will have occurred : it will have lost ten to fifteen per cent of its weight through loss of water ; the cell structures in the meat will have broken down ; the proteins will have changed into individual amino acids ( developing the flavour ) ; the muscle filaments — yes , the noble carcass is no more than a collection of muscles , bone and fat — will have broken down a bit and become more tender . |
| 30 | I shake it a bit and hear a rattling , so I look inside . |