Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb infin] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I felt extremely low , and needed company , I telephoned Esme on Wednesday evening , the day Father died , to ask if she would come out for a canoe ride from the Aquatic Club to River Park , but she said she must stay in and practise for a forthcoming piano recital . |
| 2 | It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect . |
| 3 | After gorging itself it would lie down and go into a digestive torpor , and could alternately eat and doze over a period of several weeks . |
| 4 | The Biolife filter functions well , although as the PFK test Review Update pointed out recently , the tiny suckers which the filter hangs on seem to give up sucking and can allow the filter to drop down and submerge below a critical level . |
| 5 | ‘ He has another season-and-a-half on his contract , and if he 's playing as well as he is now , we will definitely sit down and talk about a new deal . |
| 6 | But he kept his anger under control and vowed to knuckle down and fight for a first-team future . |
| 7 | Part-ex and all the rest of it , did the deal , negotiated , and said right what we want to do , is Saturday morning , she thinks she 's going to come down and look at a decent second-hand one , and I want you to take the part , take the brand new car off and all the rest of it , and then say take that one for a test drive , which is mine , all taxed up and gassed up and all the rest of it , and we 'll disappear in the moonlight . |
| 8 | You have to be sure the bird is very hungry , and if it 's not you have to sit down and wait for a long , long time . |
| 9 | He came into the kitchen after a few moments and she turned away , wandering to the far side to get away from him , battling with the sudden incredible desire to break down and sob like a little girl who had done the wrong thing yet again . |
| 10 | Well they 're getting comfy seats and we 're star well as you can see from the last play , Wuthering Heights that erm we actually lost money on that I know it will happen but I feel that we ought to erm go along and get into a healthier position again . |
| 11 | The gauntlet was down , the opportunity to talk to arrange a forum , to come together , land owners , local authorities , the hunt 's people , er the interested parties , to come together and look for a decent way of hunting and that way is probably drag hunting and we 're giving you a golden opportunity to start that route . |
| 12 | I knew that they would be criticized by the Fontanellatesi for allowing me to go away and live in a distant city among thousands of Allied soldiers . |
| 13 | Somewhere in Verona , apparently , there is an academic who answers all correspondence sent to the imaginary , dead woman Juliet Capulet , which is just the kind of ironic nugget Costello would seize on and enlarge to a 20-song opus . |
| 14 | Vologsky might as well try to take off and escape in a hot air balloon . |
| 15 | We had a brilliant time and it 's a pity you only get to do it once : Maybe we 'll split up and reform under a different name — so we can have a crack at it next year . |
| 16 | As they accelerated away Joseph turned to stare out of the window and saw the peasant jump up and break into a little celebratory caper in the middle of the road . |
| 17 | Erm there 's also a very strange statement in paragraph which says that the nineteen sixty eight act is intended to provide a network of sites to enable gypsies to move around or settle , but in practice many gypsies are settled on permanent sites and it seems to me that that is the logical result of having insufficient pitches in that if th you know there are n't enough pitches for you , you are not going to get up and go from a permanent that you 've been living on and move off in case you ca n't one somewhere else and that seems to be the inevitable logic of the government 's own failure to make sure that there is adequate provisions in local sites . |
| 18 | The trainee , together with the in-bureau tutor , should work out and carry through a tailor-made course of study . |
| 19 | From now on smokers must clock out and go to a special room for each cigarette break . |
| 20 | Suppose a subject is listening to different sequences of sounds played independently to each ear through a pair of headphones in order to pick out and respond to a particular target sound . |
| 21 | Erm I just want to go back and talk about a few things we just touched on earlier . |
| 22 | It 's not a defeat to turn back and return on a better day . |
| 23 | His constitution was now in place , his political position at home was very strong , but he was almost seventy years of age and could hardly afford to sit back and wait for a long-term transformation to solve Algeria 's problems . |
| 24 | and I both shouted and told the younger pupils to move back and get into a single line . |
| 25 | Thanks to just three votes , Mr Major could sit back and relax for a few moments . |
| 26 | Your presence may help to concentrate its mind , however , and you can establish a routine whereby it can run around and play for a few minutes after it has performed as desired . |
| 27 | Having chosen your leather corals carefully , and provided them with a good aquarium environment , they should grow steadily and live for a long time ( ten years has been reported ) , and possibly even reproduce . |
| 28 | The partners will co-operate on development of products that enable users to monitor remotely and manage in an integrated fashion , both their local and British Telecom-provided wide area network services . |
| 29 | The partners will co-operate on development of products that enable users to monitor remotely and manage in an integrated fashion , both their local and British Telecom-provided wide area network services . |