Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These images also interact with other texts , particularly newspaper accounts of similar conditions , and combine to confirm for many White spectators that the truth is that housing and employment problems and so on will not go away unless Blacks are sent away or at least have their entry to Britain severely restricted . |
| 2 | Each has their own schizoid features , Presley gorging on chocs and biscuits , Haley preferring to lapse into drugged sleep and oblivion , but both paralysed with terror of the world outside and indulging in dreams of the golden days when mummy and daddy were alive and all was right with the world . |
| 3 | The parallels , such as they are , between 511 and 561 , together with the arrangements made to cope with the death of Charibert , lend a spurious uniformity to the divisions of the Merovingian kingdom , but one which is , at first sight , supported by the events of 595 . |
| 4 | The Valley Hotel is ideally situated to appeal to the overnight tourist , mid-week and weekend break markets . |
| 5 | Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home . |
| 6 | But I got to carry on walking , cos I do n't have no card . |
| 7 | When you go to buy your boots or shoes , take along the socks you intend to wear for walking . |
| 8 | From that decision , leave was given to appeal to the House of Lords . |
| 9 | It was a tiny lizard but not er not that you would want to hit with a sweeping brush . |
| 10 | Prince Charles had intended to wait for Cumberland to attack , but after his troops had endured this merciless fire for 20 minutes or more one commander warned Lord George Murray that his men ‘ were turned so impatient that they were like to break their ranks ’ and the pretender agreed to an immediate attack . |
| 11 | In fact he had fully intended to wait for a suitable moonlit warm right , but the trying events of the day had put him so out of sorts that he could stand the waiting no longer . |
| 12 | It sounded like a question , but he had never intended to wait for her answer . |
| 13 | The hostility of the Newcastle poetry scene ca n't hurt him : he does n't want to perform for poets , anyway . |
| 14 | I hate to agree with you here but yes , I think the leagues gone now . |
| 15 | ( The Japanese , who once provoked riots , tend to invest in higher-tech operations and are seen as relatively generous . ) |
| 16 | Aficionados of the finest wines tend to invest in en primeur purchases — buying by the case before the wine is even bottled . |
| 17 | Forecasts about the course of democracy tend to swing from optimism to despair with alarming speed . |
| 18 | ‘ I think it is important that judges should retire earlier than they do , ’ said Mr Hewitt , of Etherley , near Bishop Auckland , who retired in his 73rd year but who has regularly been recalled to sit in judgement during the past two years . |
| 19 | For trimming , allow enough braid to go round the pelmet outline , or fringing for the bottom line of pelmet only . |
| 20 | It is inevitable that the market for these teams is bound to continue to contract within AEA . |
| 21 | You must give the exact critical values , right , if those critical values that you are using to compare with the regressionally significant whether you have serial correlation or not erm so they 're very very important and they ought to be included erm because otherwise we do n't know whether a test statistic is er statistically significant or not . |
| 22 | Aggregates tend to appeal to ( comfortable ) analysts . |
| 23 | Apart from a few straightforward effects ( slow motion , freeze frame ) , art movies tend to fall outside this area , because by and large SFX are expensive and time-consuming , whereas art movies of limited appeal tend to be made on relatively low budgets . |
| 24 | They tend to fall into two broad groups : |
| 25 | We notice that the words tend to fall into natural sets : |
| 26 | These may in turn be sub-divided ; goods possessed may comprise either the results of private purchase or goods allocated by the state , while goods not possessed tend to fall into two categories : first , those we encounter as material forms , in particular the built environment , the goods of our acquaintances or those in the high street shop , and secondly , goods we do not experience directly , but which appear to us through the media — for example in television , magazines and advertising . |
| 27 | Polymer solutions tend to fall into category ( iii ) and the non-ideal behaviour can be attributed not only to the existence of a finite heat of mixing but also to the large difference in size between the polymer and solvent molecules . |
| 28 | I I tend to agree that the criteria tend to fall into two sorts . |
| 29 | If allowed to go overripe , barley ears tend to fall off the stems , and heavy losses can occur . |
| 30 | ( If you 're standing , you tend to fall towards the front rather than the back of the train now . ) |