Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was about 14 , I remember my sister and I pledging quite seriously to grow up and defy convention ; to be women who still wore jeans and long hair at 30 . |
| 2 | That 's all that Christian offered me when I went up there to lay out that poor young wife of his . |
| 3 | I had almost consciously to go out of the house in the morning with a smile fixed on my face , keep it on and breathe an air of absolute confidence when I was feeling anything but that way inclined . |
| 4 | I have n't really to get down it was just I , I took . |
| 5 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
| 6 | Erm the way I understand the situation is Tony 's happy with er his arrangement and that the clubs have agreed and I think it 's just a matter of them going back now to report back to their President the Italian people and then the way I see it he 'll he 'll go after the er game for a medical and you know there should n't be any problems there . |
| 7 | But she turned up late to start off with . |
| 8 | ‘ There are people who feel strongly enough to lie down in front of bulldozers , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Although tying up , she battled on well to hold off Flying Speed by a neck . |
| 10 | Given a more positive ride on her previous outing - again at Newmarket - she stayed on gamely to fend off the well-handicapped Kiveton Kabooz . |
| 11 | She remained well clinically to follow up at one year after onset of her colitic symptoms . |
| 12 | If you have children and you smoke , you have even more to worry about . |
| 13 | And , on the day itself , we turned up early to sort out the club . |
| 14 | Because of this , we surrender to God our self-knowledge and our self-significance , all the things we struggle so desperately to hold on to in our egoism . |
| 15 | He sits up straight to do up the buttons or velcro fastenings . |
| 16 | If it persists long enough to block out sunlight for an period , it will have the effect of wiping out phytoplankton , with potentially-disastrous effects for all marine life further up the food chain . |
| 17 | He came so often to check up on Faye that his presence was hardly cause for special comment , let alone celebration . |
| 18 | A final technical point on audio versus video recording : it takes no longer to set up for a simple video recording than it does to position a microphone for an audio recording . |
| 19 | But from the way he reached out slowly to pick up the bottle and said , " In the meantime — my treat ? " |
| 20 | But he speaks the , the wo A Ann was her name , she said that he speaks too softly to go on to that . |
| 21 | This was the most encouragement the boy got there , and it proved not enough to pep up his dismal sales figures . |
| 22 | This was based on his father 's life and it did well enough to bring in five thousand pounds . |