Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The plants are trained up a string which is zig-zagged up and down to train it in one place .
2 It is generally best to leave maintenance and repairs of central heating boilers to an expert service engineer , and to have your system serviced at least annually to keep it in good condition .
3 Certainly so far as we are concerned we would completely recognise your position and we are in fact , since your position is shared by several other experts in their respective fields who have been good enough to assist us in this venture , doing our very best to see that the names of those who are taking part in the policy study groups do not become public property .
4 ASTONISHING ‘ It would be astonishing , given the standards , not to apply them in this case , ’ said Mr Bartlett .
5 In those gardens he would , no doubt , have noted new plants from America and how best to grow them in this country .
6 But when she learned that their questions had arisen through their wonderings about Brown Owl and Mr. Gordon she told them sharply not to busy themselves in Brown Owl 's private affairs .
7 Not to psychoanalyse her in any way , but we all became the Big Sisters to Debbi .
8 If you wish to see her you may do so , but I must stress that you should try not to upset her in any way . ’
9 ‘ You trust me not to hurt you in any way ? ’
10 We therefore petition you as our benefactor and saviour to command Apollonius the governor of the district not to molest us in any way , since we are distinct from them both in race and customs … and we ask that the temple without a name be known as that of Zeus Hellenios " ( Ant .
11 It was a press release following the Chief Environmental Health Officer preempting a report that was being made to the council going to be implemented for the use of the Environmental Protection Act , and goes on to list them in indented form .
12 Trees return once more to help us in this endeavour .
13 As I passed the hall in a large comprehensive school , where notices proclaimed ‘ Quiet please : examination in progress ’ , the invigilator , a geography teacher , staggered out to engage me in slurred discussion of educational issues .
14 Nobody put themselves out to help me in any way at all , but I made it .
15 Applause rang out , and she twirled around to acknowledge it in demure delight , clapping the barman — and then being crushed against the ample bosom of the barman 's wife .
16 Alright well to consider it in due course anyway , for the moment there it is .
17 When you have got the idea of how to tighten them in this way , you can do the exercise anywhere .
18 Edward had no idea of how to express himself in that way .
19 She would n't know how to put it in any case , she would n't be able to explain since it was all so hard to pin down .
20 And it 's not everybody 's job to do that , so ordinary people took the jobs as shunters and could be taught how to do it in short time , if they were average and er in good health .
21 It was a stormy meeting during which Callaghan was one of those who clashed angrily with Morrison , arguing that the abandonment of the free vote meant pressurising them to change their convictions , or at least to keep them in cold storage .
22 Thomas seems however to contradict himself in this matter , presupposing elsewhere that orders relate to the body , as when he writes : ‘ Since in matters pertaining to the soul woman does not differ from man as to the thing , … it follows that she can receive the gift of prophecy and the like , but not the sacrament of Orders . ’
23 I vowed never to put myself in that position again , ’ she says .
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