Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4 Pulling his left fist back , the defender prepares to strike to the same target area with his right arm . |
| 2 | Still the stitch continued to drop in the same area . |
| 3 | Nocturnal animals have to cope with the same difficulty , and many creatures have developed ways of gathering the maximum amount of light . |
| 4 | As the genes in question appear to work in the same way in mice and people it should be possible to develop ways of detecting the genes in people at risk and discovering methods of implanting cells with the normal genes or blocking the action of the defective genes . |
| 5 | But it is far from certain that all the fish in every corporate shoal want to swim in the same direction . |
| 6 | Neil Anderson from Ireland wants to get into the few rooms that the bunch of keys and big iron key wo n't open . |
| 7 | Whetton seemed to move into the All Black position more or less on the grounds of seniority and his experience of captaining Auckland . |
| 8 | The plan started to work within a few day he became shy and nervous of humans even at feeding times . |
| 9 | Why so many of the other directors chose to sell at the same time is not known to me . |
| 10 | Nolan J said that the committee had to consist of the same people throughout . |
| 11 | Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing . |
| 12 | The difficulty appears to me to be that there are too many people in the business seeking to compete in the same areas of demand , without any very great clarity about the sources of their own competitive advantages . |
| 13 | Crowds were composed of groups of family , friends , or work-mates tending to go to the same part of the ground and recognizing those around them . |
| 14 | Auxiliary need tends to occur in the same syntactic environments as at all , ever and any , which are typically found in so-called non-assertive sentences . |
| 15 | Many insects respond to sound in the same way . |
| 16 | As I say , W. wished to continue with the same régime . |
| 17 | Familiarity bred business so it seemed , as established dealers with a limited clientele continued to deal with the same few people day after day , generating sometimes fantastic commissions for themselves , as well as token fines for the overtrading habits that ironically were tacitly encouraged . |
| 18 | He and the housekeeper continued to converse for a few minutes and finally he said , ‘ Very well , Mrs Pettifer , sherry at six . ’ |
| 19 | Whoever threw that orange and that 50p deserve to die in the same M3 pile-up as Johnny Rogan : they would n't be missed . |
| 20 | ( 8 ) The more female ducks the males have to look at the more time they spend looking at them . |
| 21 | Perhaps because horses are relatively large , and therefore hard to ignore , people tend to behave in the same way in the presence of a horse . |
| 22 | Her father has to sleep in the same room since he has to attend to her during the night when she may need a bed pan up to four times . |
| 23 | Should two adjacent needles try to tuck at the same time , there is nothing between these two needles to actually hold the loops on to the individual needles , so the loops become just one loop , which often falls off both needles . |
| 24 | When two bodies attempt to exist within the same sub-space their functional association needs to be checked . |
| 25 | It 's just a place people go to listen to a little music , you know ? |
| 26 | Er I , I suppose if we 're going back something like forty , fifty years where people tended to live in the same area most of their lives , and their families in the area , people did n't move very far , they were probably born in an area , went to work in the area and died in the area . |
| 27 | Moreover , expeditions tend to congregate in a few favoured areas which provide rapid access to peaks as well as adequate water supplies and shelter from natural hazards like avalanches . |
| 28 | Stack claim that the gun is balanced for colour as well as brightness of the image but all the games seemed to play with the same degree of accuracy even with a black&white image . |
| 29 | His two attackers threatened to cut off the former Manchester United and Chelsea midfielder 's private parts during the vicious revenge attack in a country lane . |
| 30 | His two attackers threatened to cut off the former Manchester United and Chelsea midfielder 's private parts during the vicious revenge attack in a lonely country lane . |