Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearby , fishermen sort their nets before hanging them up to dry in the tall net ‘ shops ’ that are unique to Hastings ; and delicious fresh fish is always available from the fishmarket . |
| 2 | When she pulled herself out of bed and went to the bathroom , instructing me not to look at the sketch , I got the chance to examine it . |
| 3 | David called Mick Ronson and Woody Woodmansey ( after making ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , they had returned to Hull where they lived ) and invited them back to prepare for the next album , ‘ Hunky Dory ’ . |
| 4 | This has nothing directly to do with the overt sex drives of American footballers , or the claim of the early Hollywood starlet Clara Bow that she once ‘ entertained ’ the whole of the University of Southern California football team in rapid succession . |
| 5 | The action has nothing specifically to do with the technical content of the programmes but relates to wider difficulties between the Council of Ministers , the Commission and the European Parliament . |
| 6 | This can be seen in : ( 211 ) Have I not bidden you never to look upon the face of woman ? |
| 7 | When the classic car market collapsed , he had to find something else to do with the vehicles awaiting restoration : |
| 8 | When the classic car market collapsed , he had to find something else to do with the vehicles awaiting restoration : |
| 9 | She had raced up to her cabin wondering how she was going to repair herself enough to put in the rest of her shift . |
| 10 | The doctor would feel her breasts , find nothing , smile and send her off to deal with a new , an incurable bitterness . |
| 11 | Is this a sign of a tradition-conscious reappraisal of iconology in the town where it began , or has it more to do with the current emphasis of your Department ? |
| 12 | If anything , they would have been better off contributing less prize money ( which they tried to do in 1991 but were not allowed to reduce what they had already promised ) and used it instead to go into the appearance money pool , which will still have to be funded . |
| 13 | I thought she was going to hit me : her hand which was already formed in a fist , went up — but she used it only to swipe at a cat scuttling from under a bush towards the door . |
| 14 | The captain invited us brusquely to sit on a bench before the table and hurried out of a side door . |
| 15 | Do nt you think its more to do with the fact Elland Rd is always quiet in the first round of cups ? |
| 16 | John Howard Griffin made himself up to look like a negro and passed himself off as one in the southern USA for his book Black Like Me . |
| 17 | Two key objectives : establishing a network and investigator bringing himself up to speed on the French plastic cards and payment systems market . |
| 18 | Pressure was put on some MPs who are the directors of companies from the bosses of the companies , warning them not to vote against the Government . |
| 19 | Well yesterday we actually went to a school and you show them how to use with a condom demonstrator and allow them to touch the condoms , and in youth clubs you allow them to do practically anything with them , as long as they 're returned , they can blow them up , or they can |
| 20 | And every day he spends in bed wastes away a little more of his authority : parliament does n't like sick leaders , it casts them out to die on the cold , cold slopes of the House of Lords . |
| 21 | He told me not to talk about the matter outside as it might not be to his interests if the facts were made generally known . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Tommy Boyle told me not to throw in the towel , ’ she said . |
| 23 | I 'd listened to my father when he told me how to act with the top players , and there was n't a blade of grass I did n't know at St Andrews . |
| 24 | He advised them not to come into the off-licence with him . |
| 25 | I hold them up to look through the paper . |
| 26 | ‘ We did not bring them here to sit in the stand , ’ Roxburgh said , although he would not commit himself as to whether either was considered a starter against the French . |
| 27 | I do n't know if any of you have ever been to Newcastle before — if not , I 'd be happy to meet you at the station , or wherever , ( as long as it 's not too early in the morning ! ! ) , take you for a drink , and show you how to get to the ground . |
| 28 | I 'll show you how to play with the other hand |
| 29 | They told him not to act in a hurry , but they would like to see her . |
| 30 | By the garden gate of Four Winds she stood looking at the house for several minutes in silence before they got back into the car and she told him how to get to the Inn on the Point . |