Example sentences of "[verb] to [adv] [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using fleece covers to completely cover a crop down to the ground will significantly improve water retention by the soil . |
| 2 | To be able to add this latest accreditation to what may already be a substantial collection of brandings and certifications , a vendor has to successfully complete a set of tests and checks , buy a distribution source licence for the specific OSF technology , and agree to a royalty structure for products shipped under the certification seal . |
| 3 | Yes and I want to just visit a friend either end of July beginning of August and then in September it 's our five day study tour to Worcester , you know . |
| 4 | I want to just have a look at this . |
| 5 | If you want to temporarily remove a line from an INI file , just place a semicolon in front of it . |
| 6 | We want to really look a lot slimmer . |
| 7 | Keegan refuses to publicly condemn a competition that has already provoked a welter of criticism but has asked the Football League to re-examine the format of using Italian referees in England and vice-versa . |
| 8 | A friend and I in in our church we 've started erm a mother and toddler service and that seemed to really help a lot of the young mums they really look forward and they said could we have it more often . |
| 9 | Well , at that time my best pal went to the pit , his mother would n't let him enter in th for scholarship , but he did happen to come here for , Well , he seemed to always get a day 's day release from the year dot , I think , and er eventually he got some A levels . |
| 10 | Only one attempt per day can be made to so learn a spell . |
| 11 | The members simply have not the time at their disposal to take on the continuous pressure needed to effectively construct a platform for alternative or opposing views . |
| 12 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 13 | This means that , despite the constraints , CD-ROM is increasingly regarded as a viable multimedia platform , particularly attractive because it is going to fast become a standard , built-in feature of mass market microcomputers . |
| 14 | There would be a short handover period , er it would have to be administered , but from where we sit , we 're going to actually submit a bid that sees off the competition . |
| 15 | I tell you what , would you like to just go an sit behind on that chair over there and you 'll be more comfortable . |
| 16 | I 'm fairly happy with my playing now so I 'd like to just learn a bit more about the construction of guitars . |
| 17 | If you 'd like to just have a look through that , is that paragraph where I put a line |
| 18 | Oh I , I support that , what people have said , I just would like to now say a word though for people that actually run car boot sales . |
| 19 | And then we did a jungle trek and erm the guide said if I do that you 've come near , if I do that you have to go away , if I do that you 've got to quickly climb a tree |
| 20 | But you 've got to actually have a wish |
| 21 | Mind you , us kids often used to sneakily eat a bit of it on the way home — happy days ! |
| 22 | Electronic bite alarms have been invented so the fishermen do n't have to even watch a float . |
| 23 | You do not have to immediately join a group — it may not be what you want anyway and there is more about different options later . |
| 24 | In fact the whizzy-wig , whenever you use it , you do n't have to actually draw a diagram , that map that we just saw with boxes and arrows and things , you could draw that on the spreadsheet with the whizzy-wig . |
| 25 | In many cases when creating this effect , it is not enough just to tie a bow in a piece of ribbon , and you may have to actually create a bow from a piece of material in order to produce the right effect . |
| 26 | I was on level four , I' [ d rescued hostages , destroyed the nuclear reactor , and was all set to finally put an end to the madman . |
| 27 | I found out later it was the weekend that he decided to definitely make a run for the presidency . |
| 28 | Indeed these monitoring devices can be arranged to automatically signal a lift breakdown to a remote point by a telephone line . |
| 29 | Now what I want you to do I want to just have a look at it now and I want you to play with it over the holiday on your own . |
| 30 | But they did n't say they did n't ever want to ever drive a car again . |