Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People should know exactly how to vote for animal rights in the election and that is for one of the parties that unanimously supported this Bill . |
| 2 | Statements by officials , including some made by ministers in Parliament , have been used too often to mislead in connection with Ulster affairs . |
| 3 | During the temperature and pressure increases through burial and during migration of pore waters , many previously-stable minerals , or minerals which were deposited and buried too rapidly to become in equilibrium with surface temperatures and pressures , are brought into a regime where they are unstable in the prevailing conditions . |
| 4 | He made no sketches in advance but got straight down to work with pencil and ruler , drawing the outline before filling in with emulsion paint . |
| 5 | okay , okay erm yeah although normally you could do something like that while you can do that by phone you can call up and say yes we 're coming definitely just to get in touch and say it . |
| 6 | Their theme , as given in the conference invitation , was : ‘ Can some modern nation show the way to a change that goes deep enough to deal with hate and fear and greed ? |
| 7 | He managed furthermore discreetly to put into circulation the audacious proposal that he should be the first Governor-General of the two independent states . |
| 8 | Yet if this were indeed the law , then surely the Act must have had as its object something of greater moment than the nudie magazines and nude pamphlets which British juries were asked so regularly to assess for depravity . |
| 9 | Christie , so adept at getting the aid of Administration for his own business , knew exactly where to look for help , and approached Lord Ilay through his deputy , Lord Milton , and without any attempt to bargain simply asked for an appointment for his son , promising that it would ‘ forever laye me under the deepest obligationes ’ . |
| 10 | His eyes were grey-green , like Finn 's , but had warm brown flecks in them and looked straight and candid ahead , as though they saw too directly to look from side to side . |
| 11 | He could make his friend laugh convulsively enough to fall off schoolroom chairs , and once even out of a hammock . |
| 12 | The crucial difference between the Germans and the Poles who profited from the efforts of the Colonisation Commission and the Polish banks through the sale and resale of farms and estates was that , while the Germans would eventually sell up for good and move away westwards to retire on money invested in Germany 's growing industrial enterprises , the Poles would stay put , use their money to consolidate their farms and purchases , and deposit their savings in the Land Purchase Bank . |
| 13 | In general , in the north , roofs slope more steeply to throw off rain and snow , windows and doorways are larger to let in available light and walls thick to keep out the cold . |
| 14 | She had tried hard not to fall in love with him , preferring to play the field and maybe trap a man whose heart was fancy free . |
| 15 | He gave aid to the tribesmen and aimed primarily not to convert by teaching , ‘ but to live the Christian life , alone among the natives ’ . |
| 16 | I mean I could do I think they 're fascinating and important — but I would prefer instead actually to talk about Darwinism Darwin as a biologist , rather than Darwin as a philosopher or as a influencer of morals and religious beliefs and so on . |
| 17 | The name which springs most readily to mind in connection with our Embassy in Paris ( the Hôtel de Charost ) is Lady Diana Cooper , wife of the first post-war ambassador , Sir Alfred Duff Cooper . |
| 18 | I might just add that what we are deeply disturbed by , is that as the fighting continues in Cambodia with Phol Pot trying once again to get into control , already a hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced by that fighting and that er the number of amputees has reached something like a thousand a month which is twice last year 's figure . |
| 19 | The idea of a department of state concerned solely with foreign affairs had clearly still to fight for acceptance . ) |
| 20 | The survival I had in mind was more huddling with a broken leg under a rock in the snow , trying hard not to die of exposure until some pals bring the Mountain Rescue team . |
| 21 | Gabby , who , with her husband , was preparing to run a guest house and had quite enough to do at home , cooked and brought down to the new house a hearty and beautifully cooked meal each evening , and filthy and exhausted the three of us would wolf it down . |