Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |
| 2 | Yes , erm , we found ourselves in , rather to go back . |
| 3 | All three pupils are now following A-level course work at Aquinas College , Stockport and hope eventually to go on to university . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell me , Uncle , is it all right to carry on thinking about ordinary gravity force instead of wonky space — if you want to ? ’ |
| 5 | Diniz also had stayed , and had found his way out into the yard , and the broken pillars of the loggia , where he had found somewhere to sit out of the wind . |
| 6 | No , it 's just somewhere to sit in and look out at the en , er the ships and boats going by . |
| 7 | I hoped there was somewhere to sit down , it was nearly half-past eleven and I was worn out and hot and sticky with all this wandering . |
| 8 | ‘ I — I did n't feel very well — the heat I suppose — and I just wanted somewhere to sit down , ’ she explained hurriedly , trying to smooth over her faux pas . |
| 9 | While he was talking to her , Melissa took the twins out of the pushchair and began to carry them around the store , one balanced on each hip , until she found somewhere to sit down . |
| 10 | A tacit collusion is set up between narrator and reader not to take the novel too solemnly , but rather to sit back and enjoy the show . |
| 11 | But when she was very sad she understood that sorrow casts out fear , and then the murderer could call with a few of his friends and she would tell them wearily to bugger off and they would go , since , after all , there can be no satisfaction in murdering the dead . |
| 12 | But commercial printing and typesetting , which , admittedly , comprise only about 2 per cent of turnover , were described as reflecting the weakness of the UK 's printing industry and the overcapacity which continued relentlessly to drive down prices , often below break-even point . |
| 13 | Executive directors have a contractual relationship with the company which imposes on them , either expressly or by implication , an obligation to devote such attention to the business as is necessary properly to carry out their functions . |
| 14 | One of their employees , a store manager , failed properly to carry out the system with the result that Radiant washing powder was advertised in the window at 2s. 11d. when in fact the only packets available in the shop were 3s. 11d. ( section 11(d) the Trade Descriptions Act which made this an offence has since been repealed and replaced by Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , see paragraph 16–28 below ) . |
| 15 | Merseysiders in general worry a lot about crime but those under the greatest social and economic pressure also suffer most from crime : they worry more , perhaps too much , but they do have the most to worry about . |
| 16 | While Zen waited for his driver to arrive , his hosts tried politely to find out who he was and what he 'd been doing , but he remained deliberately vague . |
| 17 | So on his next few field trips to Mexico he searched this area properly to find out just what the range is for this species . |
| 18 | Disillusioned with the cottage and its problems , he had boarded up the windows and returned to Toronto , meaning eventually to come back and make a final decision about his ill-advised purchase . |
| 19 | He tried re-dialling two or three times , but either it was a long conversation or he could n't time it right to slip in between calls . |
| 20 | His brother Nails was already there , terrorizing the deep end , but came out when he saw them and hung around — presumably to find out how awful they were . |
| 21 | Presumably to find out what went wrong in the Abbey . ’ |
| 22 | It would be misleading therefore , effectively to write off the outer circle of kin as significant sources of support in British society . |
| 23 | ‘ When Masklin comes back , he 's going to have somewhere to come back to . ’ |
| 24 | Today the Government , of course , still denies legal responsibility — presumably to frighten off any other claimants — but will dispense £150 million of taxpayers ' money to com pensate investors of both the Barlow Clowes UK fund and the Gibraltar based international fund ( which is n't covered by the Department of Trade 's writ and which offered rates of interest on allegedly gilt-edged stock which were not possible with out tax avoidance ) . |
| 25 | ‘ But this is the bit that took me longest to work out . |
| 26 | Therefore the problem for us is not necessarily to get clients to install a new identity , but rather to find out which ‘ corporate communications ’ are unintelligible , and then to ask — in today 's cost-conscious times — whether it is worth putting them out at all . |
| 27 | In recent years , however , a dramatic change in emphasis has begun slowly to come about . |
| 28 | ‘ I think in any rural town it ought to be possible to find an hour or so to stroll round , just to talk to people about this and that . |
| 29 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 30 | By Saturday they had both recovered sufficiently to fall in with the rest of the company for pay parade , waiting in a long queue to collect five shillings each from the paymaster . |