Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( iii ) provided accommodation to the addict in your life because he or she had nowhere else to go . |
| 2 | So it was that I set out laboriously to catalogue the very schema of my own sanity , to list exhaustively the full range of my personal habits . |
| 3 | It is without any pleasure that I seek once more to call the attention of the House to the problems faced by Derbyshire police force . |
| 4 | A pleasant change from the heat of Mespot , but with a deal of other diversions that I found easy enough to take . |
| 5 | Sleep has left me and I feel that I have not long to live . |
| 6 | It was n't that she felt left out — ‘ in fairness , they had said to me that I could go out with them anytime , but it 's a really grotty place , and I also did n't want them to feel I was a hanger-on ’ — it was just that she had nowhere else to go . |
| 7 | ‘ That nice lady sat there explaining to me that she had n't long to live . |
| 8 | Laura 's problem was that she had not enough to do — no children , though she had n't said anything about this recently — and his heart smote him because he had undertaken to make her happy , and had n't . |
| 9 | Their house , Carceri , is a complex world of ancient stone galleries and courtyards , with weird ( and scheduled ) spiral staircases that you go up only to find yourself on the floor below the one you started on — an old dungeon perched among the treetops on a hillside overlooking the city , which they found by a miracle , and had converted . |
| 10 | As you near the end of your first video safari , the low-battery warning in your viewfinder may begin to flash , indicating that you have not long to go before switch-off for the day . |
| 11 | That 's why it 's impossible to be prescriptive about how you should allocate your own time — and that 's why it 's essential that you learn how best to manage your time for yourself . |
| 12 | One night along came Doctor Strangelove , so we went out early to eat before the film started , in a taverna near the cinema . |
| 13 | It 's important to plan , so we predict how best to treat them . |
| 14 | She marvels that they flow so easily to fill the vast space in which she moves . |
| 15 | ‘ They say that they have nowhere else to go , but I know that facing the world on their own would be even more frightening . ’ |
| 16 | The problem in West Yorkshire is that it costs more there to put a police man on the beat , and the authority spends more per head of the population . |
| 17 | There was increased reseeding and cutting for silage , which entails heavy fertilization of the grass so that it grows very quickly to give you an early crop , then putting in more fertilizer to enable you to cut it again . |
| 18 | The Egyptian foreign minister , Amr Moussa , made it clear he expected Israel to offer more than it has so far to return the deportees to their homes in the occupied territories . |
| 19 | But he speaks the , the wo A Ann was her name , she said that he speaks too softly to go on to that . |
| 20 | Looking around at the suffocating power of the Roman Catholic Church and the less humane churches of Protestantism , he found that he had nowhere else to go ; they had no answers for this situation either . |
| 21 | Why did Doctor Lanyon think that he had not long to live ? |
| 22 | Gandhi 's understanding of Truth and the essential unity of all that exists means that he has not only to realize his highest Self or Ātman but also recognize his oneness with all his fellow men and with all sub-human forms of life . |
| 23 | The investigator gave her his attention and everyone leaned forward slightly to hear the answer . |
| 24 | So really it sounds the sort of thing that 'll be nice for you and I to go really just to get away from the children . |
| 25 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 26 | ‘ And I got close enough to count them as they rode past . |
| 27 | The proof of the pudding as we all know is in the eating , and I thought where better to sample the pudding than at RAF Uxbridge . |
| 28 | But on my way through the old garden I had a strange feeling that something was wrong , and I ran back upstairs to check that Miss Havisham was all right . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If I last long enough to get to the air … . |