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 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 .
3 A pleasant change from the heat of Mespot , but with a deal of other diversions that I found easy enough to take .
4 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 .
5 She marvels that they flow so easily to fill the vast space in which she moves .
6 ‘ They say that they have nowhere else to go , but I know that facing the world on their own would be even more frightening . ’
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 But he speaks the , the wo A Ann was her name , she said that he speaks too softly to go on to that .
11 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 .
12 The investigator gave her his attention and everyone leaned forward slightly to hear the answer .
13 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 .
14 And I got close enough to count them as they rode past .
15 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 .
16 If I last long enough to get to the air … .
17 If I had anywhere else to go I would leave this house .
18 Then , fiercely , ‘ But if I had anywhere else to go , I would . ’
19 ‘ I do n't doubt that , Claudia , but you also want to keep me away from Garry , ’ she added shrewdly , ‘ and you want even more to keep me away from Roman .
20 It was all too obvious what her plot was and she went straight away to see Mrs Browning , resolved to ask outright if Ferdinando was to go to France and if so to plead her case .
21 It 's her home , and she has nowhere else to live .
22 Then she realised that the sensation was becoming too pleasant , and she tried once more to pull away .
23 ‘ People get bored if you try hard enough to tell them how things were . ’
24 " If you have somewhere else to go , you will go . "
25 But if we react too strongly to fear , the brake is applied so hard that we come to a standstill , and fail to grow — which means a wasted lifetime .
26 If we went high enough to use a ‘ chute we 'd be picked up on radar immediately after taking off . ’
27 They had little interest in the apparent winners of the elections ; and they seemed no longer to care much what would happen next .
28 Because they said they 'd always done it and they had nowhere else to put it .
29 George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe .
30 During this process younger children learn that if they cry loud enough to get the parent involved they usually get their own way .
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