Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , they agreed to come back for their next session , in which Tom said , ‘ We have thought about what you said last week , and neither of us likes the idea of having ‘ tartiness ’ in our relationship , as you put it . |
| 2 | and ste starts to spread down towards your next knuckle . |
| 3 | Of late , though , after his meetings with Eleanor , he had had to go on to his third level of fantasy . |
| 4 | Other young people vote with their feet and leave early by failing to turn up during their last year , and sometimes their last two years at school . |
| 5 | There is a diverse range of talents based at the Selborne farm — from confectioners to builders — and the NFU vice-chairman was given a brief tour before having to rush off to his next appointment . |
| 6 | In one group of eight , half chose to go in for their first farrowing ; the second time they farrowed , all eight went in . |
| 7 | And managing to sniff out of her second in command a crisis back at the office , even though he tried to steer the conversation well away from work . |
| 8 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 9 | Even if she fails to turn up for her next set of lectures there is nothing we can do but not pay her . |
| 10 | This process occurs as a result of five stages , sometimes known as the ABCDE approach , which is illustrated with an example of a man whose girlfriend fails to turn up on their first date . |