Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | " They have a first class officer who has leant over backwards to establish a low profile in dealing with immigrants . " |
| 2 | Budding classicists amongst you will quickly realise that Intel has managed rather clumsily to match a Greek prefix to a Latin suffix . |
| 3 | Foley , stony-faced , told him that the dirty tricks brigade , led by Charles Fraser-Smith , had turned up earlier to make a replica of the prisoner 's uniform , correct in every detail . |
| 4 | Even so , she had lingered long enough to watch a tanker ploughing a parallel course , though in the opposite direction , probably bound for the big oil refinery . |
| 5 | He had hoped then also to find a publisher who was prepared to offer a comparable insight into the operation of an academic publishing house , but no publisher had accepted the brief , possibly for fear of revealing intimate company details . |
| 6 | She had gone along once to pay a casual visit and found one of Nenna 's youngsters , the little one , cooking some kind of mess for him in Dreadnought 's galley . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've taken long enough to do a simple errand , I must say . |