Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN Anglo-Russian company got off the ground yesterday to run production and sales of a Rolls-Royce-powered Tupolev airliner . |
| 2 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 3 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 4 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 5 | I made for the sideboard again to hover . |
| 6 | All this was making my muscles feel slack and unused , and I wanted to sprint up the street just to feel myself alive again . |
| 7 | 60,000 fans will pack into the Bowl tomorrow to see the Boss . |
| 8 | Deeper and deeper Ruth sank till she nearly leapt out of the hired Suzuki at the gates and fled into the forest never to emerge again . |
| 9 | Should teachers at school , like professors at university , be expected in the future simply to teach academic or practical subjects to their pupils , and to have no general pastoral or moral responsibility for them ? |
| 10 | Mother took one tiny look down at all the people looking up — made a long , low moaning noise and fled from the box never to return . |
| 11 | Braintree says the southern link road was included in the package simply to push the overall cost up to a level at which it became eligible for government funding . |
| 12 | Braintree says the southern link road was included in the package simply to push the overall cost up to a level at which it became eligible for government funding . |
| 13 | The dryish curd is cut into big chunks and piled into huge tubs that are left to stand in the dairy overnight to allow the acidity and flavour to develop . |
| 14 | I am a recipient of Public Lending Right and I have come to the House tonight to say thank you to honourable members who were here in 1979 , when the legislation was passed . ’ |
| 15 | We understand why he had come to the House today to denounce freeloading for the rich . |
| 16 | ‘ I have not come to the North-East just to play in the FA Cup , ’ he said . |
| 17 | John and wife Pam had written off to appear on the programme only to discover there were 10,000 applicants . |
| 18 | But to talk about the way forward to do with A L O's so can we all address our minds to the problems that we perceive ma make some notes so that we can draw up a proper agenda of all the issues likely to be encountered through the civilianisation programme okay ? |
| 19 | All this I learn from the bus driver who chats to me as we wait for the traffic ahead to move . |
| 20 | Districts : ‘ Working for patients ’ says little about planning but stresses that , having been freed from the obligation actually to provide services : |
| 21 | With the adulterous woman who came to the village well to draw water , he spoke first of the water and then of the men in her life . |
| 22 | In addition , a cylinder thermostat can be strapped to the cylinder either to turn the boiler off or to operate a valve which shuts off the flow from the boiler to the cylinder when the stored water is hot enough . |
| 23 | Designs giving decade or binary steps are popular , the latter enabling an indicating instrument connected to the output always to operate at a substantial fraction of full scale as the input signal changes , with attendant reading accuracy advantage . |
| 24 | The inflation of land prices encouraged farmers who wanted to remain in the east to sell to the Commission only to buy the same land back again at a reduced price and pocket the difference . |
| 25 | For Stark there is a systematic and progressive development in the natural sciences organized by the desire both to understand and to dominate nature . |
| 26 | They arrived for the performance only to find the tape recorder would not work . |
| 27 | She is waiting for the clock downstairs to strike twelve . |
| 28 | And the ordeal of putting up the lists — he could still feel the brute weight of Allan Stewart 's shoulder jolting him aside , the smell of whisky on his breath , and then the twilit hours lying low beside the minister in the church , waiting for the hubbub outside to die away . |
| 29 | I even thought of going off to Australia , but I re-sat my exams , went back to college and after a bit of nightclubbing eventually got into the gym just to get fit again . |
| 30 | Look in the list below to find one that suits your interests . |