Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organise your affairs so as to get to the patient quickly , or decide not to go to the patient and use routinely the 999 service , but do have a practice policy . |
| 2 | The essence of both offences would be the intrinsic quality of the driving and its deviation from the proper standard , not the consequences which happen to result or happen not to result in a particular case . |
| 3 | The housewife has to get the washing there in the first place , she has to unload it , sort it , sit and watch it wash and dry ( or dash out to shop in the interim ) and then pack it all up again . |
| 4 | He often worked in a friend 's studio , and took his meals at Rosalie 's where he peeled potatoes or washed up to pay for the meals . |
| 5 | Quinn had watched him from across the street , tending his exterior fruit-display or disappearing inside to attend to a customer . |
| 6 | Illustrations and photographs can be maximised to full screen size if required , or set up to load as a full screen image every time instead of just half screen . |
| 7 | She screamed , a cry that seemed not to come from a human throat , a deathyell of mortal agony and longing . |
| 8 | Then , there was nothing else to be done except get back to work in the cutting room at Paramount where he was working around the clock on The Two Jakes , for which the world of movie entertainment was waiting with bated breath ; because even though all of the above makes fascinating reading for everyone intrigued by Hollywood 's pop royalty , especially one so colourful and mercurial as Nicholson , it is the mere trivia , the overcoat of gloss and glitz , that hides the real Jack Nicholson … |
| 9 | Starting in South Island , you will find that flying in to land amid the snowfields of Mount Cook or the ice of Fox Glacier of Franz Josef in the Southern Alps is something PPL visitors can unfortunately only do as passengers in the fixed-wing or chopper flights that operate out of local airfields . |
| 10 | She attracts much more of a following than previous Indian imports , partly because she encourages people to keep their jobs rather than dropping out to live in a commune . |
| 11 | Inside her , there was a small life forming , something precious and wonderful ; but there was also a deadness in her , weighing her down like a physical burden , a burden that grew harder to bear with every passing day . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't you think that had more to do with the World Council of nations assuming power and nationalising religion … ? ’ |
| 13 | I take my jacket off again and sit down to look through the War files … |
| 14 | Under ordinary circumstances , Nurse Goodman would probably not have given permission but ‘ the Major ’ , as he had become known , was such a mystery that she was glad to feel that at least somebody knew of his fate and cared enough to come to the hospital to see how he was getting on . |
| 15 | If you can scrape together a few hits and make enough to retire to a little place in the suburbs , you 've made the most of the opportunity . |
| 16 | He begins by presenting the information content of several protein families and goes on to deal with a variety of subjects , such as the evolution of the genetic code , neurobiology , the primaeval soup , black holes and cosmology . |
| 17 | Alice smiled and nodded , and got up to stand at the window , looking out . |
| 18 | God damn Humber , I thought , and got up to write on the charts on the bed-table . |
| 19 | The sinewy elegance of these figures is unusual , and has perhaps to do with the fact that the Aeginetan sculptors are recorded as preeminent in bronze . |
| 20 | When the counsellor faces this situation it is often more appropriate to leave the subject of drinking , and to try instead to focus on the nature of the social distress that the individuals are experiencing . |
| 21 | He got in alongside her , slammed the door , and moved forward to speak to the driver . |
| 22 | She squared herself , and moved along to look into the nearest of the rooms . |
| 23 | Closely-related snow buntings Plectrophenax nivalis winter in small flocks where the snow is thinnest on the southern tundra , and fly northward to breed on the high arctic tundra in summer , when snow still plentiful on the ground ( Pattie , 1972 , 1977 ) . |
| 24 | The BMC immediately leapt on the white chargers they keep permanently tied up outside Crawford House in Manchester and thundered southward to deal with the problem once it arose . |
| 25 | After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human . |
| 26 | As soon as the cold fingers let go for a moment , I pulled my hand quickly back , put a pile of books in front of the broken window , and tried not to listen to the desperate cries outside . |
| 27 | Luce made a sweeping gesture with one arm and tried not to wince at the pain . |
| 28 | Guy leaned back against the hut door , dragging the cold night air into his lungs , and tried not to think of the anguish in Isabel 's white face , of the tears drowning her luminous grey eyes . |
| 29 | Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room . |
| 30 | It was a new and very special experience to be treated as a granny , excluded from the kitchen , given a sherry before the meal and told not to help with the serving up . |