Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 His objective had to be to drive on through the tumult and horror as best they could , not to get involved with individuals or groups , not to be sidetracked , so as to reach that further side , there to turn and repeat the dire process , difficult as this must be .
2 Twelve days later I received a call from an exultant Sylvia who told me that , on the previous evening , she had in fact managed to go right into the cupboard and switch off the light .
3 it be known then for that squad just to go right through the gambit and become a fully fledged riveter 's squad and work for their days as a squad ?
4 That little faith went on to go right round the world and it 's here today .
5 It gave us all the boost we needed to carry on to the launch and , after that , to the second anniversary of John 's captivity .
6 So the NETRHA decided to carry on with the Friern and Claybury programme in the absence of feasible alternatives .
7 One therefore gets trapped into a situation where it appears much easier to carry on in the business than to divest , or move out .
8 The Minister warned : ‘ He may be able to carry on in the job but he can not do so effectively .
9 The crimson rope-lights still held him , so that he was forced to go on down the slope until they stood before the terrible dwelling place of the necromancer .
10 But , nevertheless , for me eternity was not now , and I had to go on into the future and in this world .
11 ‘ I do n't want to go on about the amount or work — everybody works hard .
12 She wanted him to stop yet at the same time wanted him to go on in the hope that the lovely sensations would begin again .
13 They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner .
14 She finds time to sit down with the patient before she 's wheeled off to X-Ray , explaining exactly how the lung will be sealed off , that pain is inevitable and how it will be controlled .
15 I tried to sit down on the bed and wait .
16 Corbett smiled and walked back to sit down on the stool while Father John bowed to Wishart and silently left the room .
17 Despite the growth of the disabled people 's movement these paper professionals still think it quite normal to sit down round the table and decide what 's best for us .
18 Her initial action on reaching her room , however , was to sit down by the telephone and to try and concentrate her attention on what she should do now .
19 He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house .
20 And do n't get so drunk that you ca n't stand up and have to sit down in the middle or , worse still , can not speak at all .
21 So great is the traffic between those striving to clamber down to the sea and those who , having spawned , are attempting to get back again , that many can not reach the water .
22 Hilton tells him to wait patiently in the darkness and acclimatise himself to this new existence , stripped of all the things that had made life worthwhile before .
23 It was better to stand out at the beginning than to go in with the expectation that he would soon have to provoke a further crisis by resignation .
24 Usually , carrying out a search creates a new list of files , but you can choose either to add to the list found so far , or to search only in the list that has already been selected .
25 Darlington Council refused to go along with the plan but Miss Carter has revived the campaign this week as a planning application emerged wanting to put a food kiosk in the car park .
26 Executives who commit corporate crime are not coerced into it , they do not necessarily have to go along with the advice or instructions of superiors .
27 I 'll have to go down to the roundabout and come back up .
28 At nights he used to go down to the shore and look out across the sea you see and he wondered what was happening back home at Greentoft and fairly homesick .
29 I wanted only to go down to the summer-house and watch the leaves falling until night fell with them .
30 But I should say very often the old Guv'nor would let him have either a shilling to go down to the pub while we did the job , or else he would provide him with a jug of home-brewed beer and bread and cheese .
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