Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staring at him worriedly , she slowly sank down to sit on the edge of the bed . |
| 2 | When it 's just a few minutes from the face , the thick cloud filling the valley gently wells up to lock in the cold . |
| 3 | She only learnt how to put on a bandage last month . ’ |
| 4 | Is n't it bad enough going out to work as a skivvy in someone 's shop without dressing as a skivvy at home . ’ |
| 5 | Much of this activity was carried out by special commissions especially set up to cope with the flood of material that was uncovered . |
| 6 | You have already defined what the worry is , so go on to look at the cause , list different possibilities for dealing with the cause and then decide on the action which seems most likely to be effective . |
| 7 | But we need not only to learn how to look at the world with the eyes of a Mexican Indian — and I hardly think that Lawrence succeeded — and we certainly can not afford to stop there . |
| 8 | Bob said : ‘ We have to generate enough income to pay for our able-bodied staff , our overheads and have enough left over to contribute to the cost of employing disabled people . |
| 9 | Their refusal to do so had more to do with a laager mentality than with calculations that by spinning out the conflict they could buy time to mop up more territory . |
| 10 | But mistaken loan decisions or pricing policies swiftly come home to roost in an organisation with a balance sheet of only a few hundred million . |
| 11 | But Billingsley had clearly known about Hirondelle 's visit to Murder Cay , and I realised that this senior police officer had not come here to enquire into a crime , but to cover it up . |
| 12 | If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books . |
| 13 | The club have chartered a special flight from Manchester to Bologna and over 100 fans hare already booked up to travel with the official party . |
| 14 | They had had medical attention since the beginning of the year and he did not know where to turn for a penny . |
| 15 | Asked about the possibility of economic difficulties , she was concerned about how they would manage : ‘ The new government does not know where to begin with the economy , which is in a shambles . |
| 16 | She did not know how to respond to the resilience of this smile , the brightness of the white-gold hair , the apple-red glow of the cheeks , the indestructibility of the expression . |
| 17 | Prosecutors interviewed by the Polish daily Zycie Warszawy said they would not know how to deal with a case of illegal abortion as they had not yet received copies of the new law . |
| 18 | He had already overtaken his mother and she did not know how to cope with the graded readers he brought home from school or his teacher 's request that she should hear him read . |
| 19 | the external design is nevertheless made everywhere to result from the necessities of the interior : the positions of the windows are decided not so much with regard to external effect , as with reference to the rooms they light ; and even the heights of stories will be found to vary in parts to suit internal convenience . |
| 20 | The British public was not prepared either to pay for the higher cost of the non-marketed sector through higher taxation rates . |
| 21 | It required those LEAs who had not already done so to submit to the Secretaries of State , by the end of the year , information about their plans for making their schools comprehensive . |
| 22 | Last week , parliament finally decided not to vote on the bill , effectively putting off the decision until after parliamentary elections in the autumn — and perhaps forever . |
| 23 | It is the Commission , for example , which quite overtly decided not to intervene in the decision to build a road through Twyford Down in Hampshire , but which apparently will continue to challenge the plans for an East London river crossing at Oxleas Wood , as well as proposals by British Petroleum for a gas terminal at Falkirk . |
| 24 | No drive , no ambition ; the team was just turning up to go through the motions ; and behind the scenes , lots of devious insider stuff . ’ |
| 25 | I concede that the current recession and the Government 's mismanagement of the economy have a part to play in the fact that prestige projects are not lining up to locate in the bay . |
| 26 | The father was just moving round to sit at the head of the table when the mother came sweeping out of the kitchen carrying a huge plate piled high with eggs and sausages and bacon and tomatoes . |
| 27 | Fortunately , in-foal mares usually ‘ do ’ well and will not cost more to feed until the last three months . |
| 28 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 29 | Near the end of the novel the clergyman is left ‘ … in strange Embarrassment , not knowing how to account for a Mind at once so enlighten 'd , and so ridiculous . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour . |