Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Margaret was nearly out of her mind when she asked me to come out here to look for you , but that 's all in the past now . |
| 2 | She phoned me earlier this week and invited me to come down here to see her land . |
| 3 | Smaller people pogo faster , at precisely the increments a physicist would predict from the known properties of springs — although keeping them bouncing long enough to prove this was another challenge for Taylor . |
| 4 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
| 5 | Want you to find out how to do it . ’ |
| 6 | He was unsurprised to find her packed off firmly to take his sister home , leaving him as a person of major importance in what he instantly assumed to be a real murder . |
| 7 | I marvel he ever steeled himself to hit hard enough to stun , and to break the branch in the blow , even though it was partly rotted . |
| 8 | ‘ She says she has nowhere else to go . |
| 9 | You may not always do just what friends tell you , but they are the sounding boards who let you know how far to go . |
| 10 | Steve says they have nowhere else to go . |
| 11 | You have to remember they came round here to kill me . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've seen him play often enough to know that he will do a good job for us . ’ |
| 13 | It does n't make you know automatically how to say " she speaks " and to come out with it instantly . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , would you believe I came up there to save you ? |
| 15 | Even if you do claim you went up there to do him in ! |
| 16 | To help you find out where to start reading . |
| 17 | Refusing to let herself think beyond the tasks she was performing , Leonora listened to the radio as she worked , and when the meal was well advanced she went quietly upstairs to find the bathroom empty , and Penry , fully dressed in fresh clothes , fast asleep on his bed . |
| 18 | Starting at the top of the bank , cut out a rough sloping path to bottom , slightly above intended step levels , using scale drawing to let you know how deep to dig at any point |
| 19 | Effective ministry in frontier situations not only requires dedicated skills and energies but it requires us to learn how best to wrestle with the principalities and powers . |
| 20 | Yesterday you had the strange experience of having someone bend over backwards to return your hat to you because you 'd left it behind somewhere and then five minutes later someone stole it . |
| 21 | Arthur is inclined to be delicate and it 's feared he has not long to live . |
| 22 | I 'd rather not talk to the guests much beforehand simply because I find it works better just to say hello , and thanks for coming , and leave it at that . |
| 23 | It also made him want even more to pull her close and heal her wounds with a kiss . |
| 24 | ASK THEM TO FIND OUT HOW TO DO SOMETHING … find the area of a triangle … construct a 30 degree angle . |
| 25 | ASK THEM TO FIND OUT HOW TO DO SOMETHING find the area of a triangle . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought you came round here to ask if I 'd seen anything suspicious last night , not grill me about my sex life . ’ |
| 27 | It meant they knew exactly where to go looking for them . ’ |
| 28 | Rain saw him weighing up how to respond . |
| 29 | I bet he turns out not to have been quite the hero he makes out . ’ |
| 30 | How do I find out where to get homoeopathy ? |