Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fenella was trying to be very patient , because it was not in the least unreasonable of Caspar to want to go on and leave the Dark Workshops as far behind them as possible . |
| 2 | That was quite nice , to see somebody that I 'd been in prison with and still be able to sit down and talk the same old way . |
| 3 | But if Ken wanted to sit in and watching the good results coming in |
| 4 | What you are about to suggest , of course , is that we wait for the Kilcharran to come along and hoist the damn thing to the surface . ’ |
| 5 | There was no sign of any other cars or tanks or armoured personnel carriers and no indication that the police Stukas were waiting to come in and bomb the last pockets of resistance . |
| 6 | Not fool enough to stand aside and watch the best thing that 's ever happened to me wither away because I 'm too scared to let it put down roots . |
| 7 | Erm they are going into the villages , they 're making contacts with individual peasants erm it 's those peasants that , that they get to stand up and make the first accusations , it 's those peasants who join the Party erm and the process can build up in , in a way which was more difficult before then . |
| 8 | I did n't have to stand up and tell the whole truth of my heart unless I wanted to . |
| 9 | And so Bickers moved on to form Levitation , and into his shoes stepped Simon Walker , just long enough to tour extensively and to record the latest album before he , too , split . |
| 10 | We have suggested that a feature of leadership is the ability to stand back and take the wider perspective . |
| 11 | It was the first time any one of them had asked her reasons for wanting to come across and see the New Year in , and she answered , ‘ Some men 's do , I suppose . ’ |
| 12 | If you ask two people to go away and do the same job with a degree of excellence , are you to get the same result at the end of the day ? |
| 13 | ‘ I would hate for any of you to go away and say the first quarter is an indication and multiply that by four , ’ Reuter quotes finance director Dudley Eustace as saying . |
| 14 | She is one of many young researchers involved with the Expedicion Humana 1992 programme run by the Javeriana University in Bogota , which , in turn , is part of a worldwide project supported by the Royal Geographic Society to track down and codify the enormous body of information still existing in traditional native cultures worldwide . |
| 15 | Worse still , she longed to reach up and smooth the ruffled disorder caused by his impatient gesture . |
| 16 | I looked up at the French NCO , he steps forward and orders two Germans to pick up their Officer and the other two to pick up and carry the wounded Commando . |
| 17 | Most modern , written , constitutions seek not merely to set up and define the main organs of the state and to distribute public power amongst them , but also to state a range of constitutional guarantees for the subject , frequently limiting the power of organs of the state to this extent . |
| 18 | All she wanted , as she sat motionless beside him in the luxurious interior of the Aston Martin , was to reach out and touch the muscular , sun-bronzed knee so close to her own slender legs . |
| 19 | She wanted desperately to reach out and touch the angular cheekbone , to run her fingertips along the firm , sensuous lips … |
| 20 | It is worth remembering too that the reactions of those who accept to go further and try the new are not always quiet indicators of preference . |
| 21 | On Sunday , go to the course in the morning , but be sure to go home and watch the final holes on television . |
| 22 | We were to go home and forget the whole thing . ’ |
| 23 | Unfortunately , Jamie ended up talking to some woman , but I was too busy trying to breathe deeply and keep the far wall steady really to care . |
| 24 | The embalmer helped them replace the planks , and then fussed about whether to sweep up and re-use the original natron , or replace it with fresh salt . |
| 25 | Sharpe twisted to look behind and saw the first Dragoons reach the skyline . |
| 26 | Digital Biometrics Inc , Minnetonka , Minnesota maker of electronic fingerprint systems says it has filed an amended registration statement with the US Securities & Exchange Commission to increase its shares of common stock to 2m — the public currently holds 1.0m and another 1.0m shares are held by the its principal shareholder ; proceeds from the latest offering will be used to buy back and cancel the principal shareholder 's shares . |
| 27 | ‘ We still have them to play twice and reducing the nine-point gap would have maintained the element of doubt about the outcome of the championship . |
| 28 | That in turn allows us to look ahead and find the best , it allows us to offer even better holidays to you . |
| 29 | Furthermore , a requested authority , whose law obliges the parties themselves to secure the evidence , and which is not able itself to execute the Letter may , with the consent of the requesting authority , appoint a suitable person to do so and recover the appropriate costs . |
| 30 | It only remains to mark off and slot the central stretcher between the two side stretchers , and the chair , minus the arms , is now complete . |