Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The Germans are formidable but our young players have proved that they can come in and cope with the best , the outstanding example being Alan McLaren 's handling of Italy 's Roberto Baggio , ’ Roxburgh said . |
2 | yeah , that 's the core but it needs fleshing out more and a has agreed that you know it 's if you just stuck to the Editor 's Handbook it 's too narrow and it does need , I mean B A I E in London thus far are being extremely helpful if slightly cautious and I 've to go down and talk to the revamped education committee when the revamped education committee gets around to having a meeting |
3 | It was n't as if I even wanted to sit down and write in the first place . |
4 | But he could not sit patiently and wait for the next train , in an hour 's time . |
5 | Perhaps another chap would come along and stop on the other side of the road . |
6 | U K market tried on several occasions to break through and remain above the two thousand level today , but confidence remains low and the Footsie one hundred index was unable to find support . |
7 | On balance , the best policy ahead of such a closely-fought election is to hang on and hope for the best . |
8 | She tried to decide whether she should swallow her pride and tell John how she felt or whether to just go on and hope for the best . |
9 | The Waste was utterly still and save for the dark Tower in the centre utterly empty ; the birds which enlivened the forest avoided it , the morning sun , shining obliquely across it , lit the Tower down one side leaving the other in deepest shadow . |
10 | So if you 'd like to go down the stairs there there are some coats oh your coats and things and I will er go and come and join you and we 'll we 'll take off and look at the outside . |
11 | Or perhaps there was some other , unofficial entrance , and right now she was getting ready to give up and leave by the same way . |
12 | I was allowed to get up and dress on the tenth day after Heather 's birth , and go to the day room of the hospital ready to go to my billet at the fortnight . |
13 | Apart from a daughter who was believed to be barren he had no other near kin living and in a state of acute depression he determined to sell up and go to the Holy Land . |
14 | I 'm going to have to clear up and go in the other room . |
15 | I mean he 's not gon na sort of get up and go within the next twelve months is he ? |
16 | The second job of the day is to light the stove , a monument in itself , taking up a quarter of the thatched hut with its various extensions — a sill ( pod ) with an area for keeping dishes warm ( chestok ) , niches ( pechurki ) for small objects and matches , holes on the side for drying out leg and foot wrappings ( for lack of shoes ) , holes near the summit for reviving chilled hens in winter , and on the triumphal summit worn clothing on which to stretch out and sleep in the delicious warmth — ‘ U hholodnoi pechi ne sogreesh'sia ’ ( ‘ You ca n't heat yourself at a cold stove ’ ) . |
17 | Make suggestions for people I can go out and hassle in the first couple of days of the week . |
18 | Turnout at general elections is seldom more than about 75 per cent so Gallup asked voters : How likely is it that you will go out and vote in the General Election ? |
19 | With four minutes left I was worried — worried whether I would be able to go out and eat for the next week or so . |
20 | What she longed to do was get out and walk through the ancient amphitheatre — but , clearly , that was not going to happen . |
21 | She could n't go out and play with the other kids , she had to take him round for a walk |
22 | You know , " he hissed , " I used to wonder why my father left you to go out and fight against the British , I used to wonder why he sacrificed everything … but the more I learn about you , the more I realize why ! " |
23 | With a two goal lead from the first leg the pressure was off Swindon for once last night as they tackled Wolves at Molineux … and when Nicky Summerbee gave them the lead they could afford to sit back and cruise to the third rounds … |
24 | It was far safer to start a town off with a charter , a market and a fair , and a few other practical inducements to settlers , and then to sit back and hope for the best . |
25 | Winter is the time to lie back and sink into the great British bath . |
26 | ‘ I will lie back and think of the old circus days if you insist , ’ she said . |
27 | If I ought to pay a fair price for what I buy then I ought to come back and add to the agreed price . |
28 | In the daytime you can come back and look at the Old State House we 're coming up to and see the cobblestones which mark the place where blood was shed in the great Boston Massacre . |
29 | It is a salutary exercise to turn around and look at the Fifties and the Cold War from the East instead of the West . |
30 | Jan says he has a good feeling about swindon and is hungry to do well and play in the premier league |