Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then I got promoted at work and suddenly I had a salary to borrow against . |
| 2 | If only I had a crinoline to sweep down the grand staircase in ! |
| 3 | So I got a manual to help me . |
| 4 | Suddenly she had a need to speak his name . |
| 5 | As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it . |
| 6 | We were in their hands and obviously we needed a miracle to get us out . |
| 7 | Only we have a message to ring |
| 8 | Now to start sailing closer towards the wind , we need to pull in the mainsheet , pop the daggerboard down and then turn the boat gently towards the wind , we reach the point where even with the sail sheeted in tightly , the front edge , the luff of the sail is still flapping , that 's as close to the wind as we can get and so we maintain a course to keep the sail full . |
| 9 | The Friendship Store is in the downtown area , and so we had a chance to stop on the way at the Tien An Men Gate ( the famous gate providing an entrance to the forbidden city ) , and Tien An Men Square , Peking 's equivalent of Trafalgar Square , except that it is about 20 times as big , and contains about one-twentieth of the traffic . |
| 10 | In other words we get consulted so we get a chance to comment on the planning application when it 's made . |
| 11 | So they lit a fire to smoke them away . |
| 12 | So it has a lot to gain . |
| 13 | The sooner she made a move to get some kind of official recognition , the better . |
| 14 | Can not you pay a woman to come in ? ’ |
| 15 | What happens depends on whether or not you made a will to start with . |
| 16 | You carry on learning , and somewhere somebody knows the answer to it so you learn how they go the answer to it , and then perhaps later on you have a chance to have an opinion in science . |
| 17 | Yesterday I bought a juicer to feed my family in a healthier , more environment-friendly way — less red meat , more vegetables and more fruit — but I completely forgot to raise any of the above questions . |
| 18 | I mean , that 's the carpet ev I just said like I wanted a quote to carpet |
| 19 | On the way home she made a detour to pick wild flowers for her mother , who was down at the harbour gutting pilchards and would be late back . |
| 20 | They completed the epic length ‘ The Daleks ’ Master Plan' story as a joint endeavour early in 1966 , but thereafter they expressed a wish to branch outwards and explore new design horizons . |
| 21 | Smith 's mini gamble paid off for two ends later he stole a single to tie the score at 1-1 . |
| 22 | And it was then that she saw Christie Goldsborough coming towards her along the path , his spectacular , fur-lined driving-cape swinging loose around his shoulders , his feet encased in the finest quality leather , his carriage — a shiny , high-perch sporting phaeton — waiting for him just there , in the road beyond the church wall , whenever he had a mind to take the reins in his gloved hands and go dashing off to drink champagne and eat bride-cake at Frizingley Hall . |
| 23 | He can indulge himself with whichever other women attract him , but you 're to remain for his exclusive use , keeping yourself unencumbered , ready and available for whenever he has a whim to renew the relationship ? ’ |
| 24 | A welter of figures shot up telling him when I had started work , how often I took a break to scratch my nose or eat a mint and exactly how many key strokes I 'd done all evening . |
| 25 | Now I had a companion to share everything with , someone I knew of old and with whom there were no constraints , and seven years ' news to keep the conversation flowing . |
| 26 | Right now I had a job to do . |
| 27 | ‘ Now I have a suggestion to make . |
| 28 | ‘ Yesterday — All my troubles seemed so far away — Now I need a place to hide away , Oh — I believe in Yesterday . ’ |
| 29 | Now you have a chance to save your aluminium cans — and help buy a rainforest in Ecuador ! |
| 30 | So now you want a bulb to go in there now . |