Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven ; |
| 2 | The poet 's eyes ( according to Shakespeare 's Theseus ) " in a fine frenzy rolling , doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven " . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but from things he let drop from time to time I think there probably was . |
| 4 | The Chronicle says that in 1009 an opportunity to fall on the enemy was let slip on account of Eadric , " as it always was " . |
| 5 | The enduring relationship is treated as a perpetual debt and is made manifest from time to time by continued gift-giving throughout the duration of the marriage . |
| 6 | This is called It Was Good In the afternoon when the sun half close his eyes , ants can be found not working , dogs in their cool places , vandal wall slice through heat , hold and let go of light in rays , in the afternoon when smoke curls like the back of a cat , people lean and braid hair , someone dressed like Christ looked in and said it was good . |
| 7 | Would you like that one again , In the afternoon when the sun half close his eyes , ants can be found not working , dogs in their cool places , vandal wall slice through heat , hold and let go of light in rays , in the afternoon when smoke curls like the back of a cat , people lean and braid hair , someone dressed like Christ looked in and said it was good now we have the dug out how food is presented erm can say so much , at least it does to me and , so that , so that the beginning of this poem became from er the food , piece of food held in the hand of the mayor in this picture . |
| 8 | Doctors from the hospital told the coroner that although it was ’ highly unusual ’ for such a thing to occur , such complications did arise from time to time . |
| 9 | Where data do exist on support between kin across households , this tends in effect to be limited to documenting the networks through which support flowed and the kind of support which was given , and can give very little direct evidence about the underlying structure of social relations which supported these exchanges . |
| 10 | Commitments do exist from year to year and constant re-evaluation is impractical and might prove more destructive than constructive . |
| 11 | The only people who did keep in touch with Ken for more than a block of years in which they were extremely close , only for it all to fade away , were Stanley Baxter and Gordon Jackson . |
| 12 | Spokespeople will not confirm this , but point out that numbers do fluctuate from year to year . |
| 13 | I never established anything like a friendship with him , but our paths did cross from time to time . |
| 14 | Those who did read from end to end discovered that , far from giving its blessing to ever-expanding production and consumption , it pointed out its futility . |
| 15 | ‘ The one thing I do have in common with William , ’ conceded Preston , ‘ is that we both grew up knowing the heavens might open at any moment and drop a load of shit on our heads . ’ |
| 16 | The U S did cut off aid to Chile after the Chilean government had nationalised the copper mines with token compensation , but was not able to prevent other Western governments from continuing to extend aid . |
| 17 | Whatever the ethics of the disclosure , Leonard Arthur did go on trial in August , 1981 , at Leicester Crown Court . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , I do go to bed with Victoria on occasion . |
| 19 | Because there are so many English folk now in every community and we do tend to sort of doctor up the language a bit you know when we talk to them . |
| 20 | I always find much of interest in each issue as it reaches me and if I do criticise from time to time , this is meant to be constructive and helpful . |
| 21 | Edward never did get in touch with Sally again . |
| 22 | One was the periodic factor that wages did increase from time to time -and the other was what he called the adjustment factor which meant that a time might come in any industry when a distortion or trend had to be recognized as such for correction . |
| 23 | If management does decide to hive up Target 's trade to Newco , it will have tax implications as follows . |
| 24 | The Italian thinks that if he can ever sing Puccini the climax of his life has been reached ; but even so , with all the omissions that can be charged against Italy — such that as a musical country she ceased to exist after the seventeenth century and has certainly reached deliquescence with Messrs Malpiero , Pratella and Co — she even now does produce from time to time singers who are not merely singers but great artists , as Battistini who , at over 60 , is an example for those who can take it of the extent to which a voice can be preserved in all its beauty when it is used as a musical instrument and not as a fog siren or a pair of nutcrackers . ’ |
| 25 | So , to get the comparisons over with , and leaving musical considerations aside , what he does have in common with Rattle is charm . |
| 26 | Although it once guaranteed good quality , now no one company holds an exclusive licence over the use of the name and the quality of the knives really does vary from brand to brand . |
| 27 | This range of hearing does vary from person to person . |
| 28 | Thank you , Mr Chairman , erm , I 'm here to say , it 's quite true to say that it does vary from year to year , on er , what our programme is , but er , we we also have to face it , that er , com compared with some other areas , both east midlands and nationally , we do not have the traffic , and this does go against our for T A. Er , the the traffic on our roads |
| 29 | But it does vary from year to year . |
| 30 | Experience of life suggests that evil does ravage our capacity to listen to God and hear him ; it does lead to deterioration of character and to further separation from God . |