Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't want to go back to fight in the war , ’ said Laslzo , 21 , from Becej , as he waved his mother goodbye . |
| 2 | What I want to go on to discuss in the , in the last part of the lecture is another way in which Freud 's work looks , looks backwards , or seems to look backwards . |
| 3 | Waking in our bed one morning , we 'll hear a chorus of trills and cheeps ; fun has come back to cluster in the branches of the tree outside our window . |
| 4 | In fact , liberal or not , she has come back to work for the ANC , though her exact capacity is not made clear . |
| 5 | To my knowledge there has been no research that has set out to study from the start how far a child 's attachment to a new family or carer is impeded or not or whether ‘ the child 's personality will be damaged ’ where a birth parent or relative keeps contact whilst the child is with psychological parents . |
| 6 | Frances Viner , who both directs and designs , has set out to look at the ‘ feminine ’ qualities of the play and its spiritual nature . |
| 7 | especially if they consider saving up to buy as an alternative . |
| 8 | Then there 's er the door the door at forty feet and there 's er a gunmetal ladder going up the forty feet you 've got to climb up to get into the door . |
| 9 | I said , but you 've got to get up to get to the |
| 10 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 11 | She put it down , all the same , on the counter , but we did n't talk much longer as the revellers from the rear began coming through to go to the bedrooms . |
| 12 | Vonetta loves House music , and getting dressed up to go to a ‘ rave ’ ; she is twenty-two , at college , and lives at home with her parents , who are from Nigeria . |
| 13 | If he was the sole breadwinner , you may have to go out to work for the first time . |
| 14 | But it 's no way , I mean it was a really wet morning at quarter to seven , it had been raining , and he was right behind a lorry , and he , he , the lorry went to go one way and the he did n't go back because he knew he was going one way and the guy was going the other , he just started to go round to go to the left and bike was just there , he had no way of seeing him or he . |
| 15 | Had B lost on the question of law in the Court of Appeal , it is practically inconceivable that the court would not have gone on to deal with the remaining points of appeal . |
| 16 | If we go back to the education example , and suppose that the first vote is between L and M , then if the rich vote sincerely L wins , and in the second round H defeats L. On the other hand , if the rich had voted for M in the first round , then M would have gone on to win in the second round . |
| 17 | No exactly but I think prior to that , we did do what you 're suggesting , we did go round all the areas , Dick , myself and Malcolm and Chris , walked round all the areas , told told the people what needed tidying up to go in the it was before we had the racking up by the way so it was more messy |
| 18 | ‘ And it keeps getting bigger and bigger , and so we keep coming back to complain about the size of the hotels and the lousy service , and STOP PUTTING CUCUMBER AND BUTTER ON MY F***ING SANDWICHES ! |
| 19 | She did n't want a life of isolation stuck out here in a housing estate , only allowed to go out to work as a favour . |
| 20 | At last , the morning came when Oliver was allowed to go out to work with the two other boys . |
| 21 | Elizabeth Bay is fancied to bounce back to form in the £135,000 Coronation Stakes at the Royal meeting tomorrow . |
| 22 | Elizabeth Bay is fancied to bounce back to form in the £135,000 Coronation Stakes at the Royal meeting tomorrow . |
| 23 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
| 24 | In the small city of Sydney , Nova Scotia , a thousand did turn out to protest at the loss of the local train . |
| 25 | ‘ Our host did slip out to attend to the claret … ’ |
| 26 | In the evening we all got dressed up to go to a ball nearby , and over dinner I had a good chance to catch up with some friends I had n't seen for years , and meet various husbands too ! |
| 27 | They 've come along to talk about the Services for Industry programme , and what the University can offer local firms . |
| 28 | Stephen had them in the handsome , leather-bound edition of the International Collectors ' Library and also in the paperbacks that had come out to go with the television series . |
| 29 | ‘ Let me invite you to dinner in an hour , ’ said George , ‘ and ’ — this was addressed to Mrs Robinson , who had crept in to stand in the doorway and hear the end of the story , and now stepped forward to play a part — ‘ please , let us borrow your daughter for the evening so that we four can be a company . |
| 30 | John and wife Pam had written off to appear on the programme only to discover there were 10,000 applicants . |