Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gradual perception of this has gone with the still more necessary shift by which people have at last gradually begun to realise that human welfare too converges very considerably with both these things . |
| 2 | So I said to her she said would you like to go to the Regal so I said I do n't mind . |
| 3 | In that case the County Council will have to look after the sick there , possibly with supervision of the staff by representatives of the Regional Hospital Board . ’ |
| 4 | Two day hospitals are provided to cater for the elderly mentally ill , one for those with functional illnesses and one for those with dementia . |
| 5 | Even the moral reformer was primarily concerned — at least in terms of practical politics — with encouraging greater efforts in the regulation of the public arena , though imperceptibly many began to attempt to evangelise in the private too , in a tradition that had a considerable history , and a long future . |
| 6 | For example , if the treaty breaks down and the Soviet Navy wishes to return to the Mediterranean rapidly it would have to bypass potentially hostile chokepoints at both ends of the Mediterranean . |
| 7 | ‘ We had to get into the stable very early in the morning to feed and braid up the horses . |
| 8 | The advance word on Communion was that it wanted to deal in the uncanny again , to unsettle its audiences rather than make them laugh knowingly , yet here it was with something that belonged in a Joe Dante movie . |
| 9 | My general position would be that if this policy is to go ahead the more it 's worded in the positive rather than the negative the better . |