Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I dropped my rope at the base of one of the trees and started to rake , struggling to keep from slipping on the steep slope with its loose pine-needle surface . |
| 32 | C Company withdrew to barracks in order to rest before embarking on the next operation early the following morning . |
| 33 | This right of control is manifested in , among other situations , the consignor 's retrieval of goods from the carrier or the carrier 's warehousing agent and in the consignor 's instruction to refrain from delivering to the named consignee or to deliver to another consignee . |
| 34 | Pointer needed no further encouragement and I was too intrigued to object to floundering through the frozen bracken . |
| 35 | Thus TDC was able to cope without overcrowding with the inexorable but still moderate increase in demand for capacity during the period 1955 to 1975 . |
| 36 | These blades are very thin , and although the metal is often a little softer to allow for bending without a dangerous snap , they therefore bend that much more easily and should be used carefully . |
| 37 | Herreweghe ( Harmonia Mundi ) takes a broadly naturalistic view , allowing the text to unfold without resorting to the jet-propulsion treatment of so many Baroque choral recordings nowadays . |
| 38 | Suppose , for example , a group is given a task that is tightly defined and where the group has previous experience of similar talks , it is likely to succeed by operating at a formal stage level . |
| 39 | It has to be acknowledged that there is some potential risk attaching to this , particularly where the buyers are covenanting with the sellers , but such risk appears to be part of the price that conveyancers are prepared to pay for working within the commercial pressures in the modern conveyancing market . |
| 40 | Palace hope to clinch their first Premier League home win against the only side Steve Coppell 's men have failed to beat since returning to the top flight in 1989 . |
| 41 | The principle of paraphrase ( or " same meaning in different form " ) is one which many schools of linguistic thought continue to take for granted as a basic fact of language . |
| 42 | People were doing all kinds of jobs to earn money ; even the married women who could get nothing before were able to take in washing for the posh folk whose maids were earning more in a week in the munitions factories than they could in a month skivvying . |
| 43 | In two respects , it is open to the courts to insist that the constable 's decision must be a reasonable one ; there must first be reasonable grounds on which the constable is entitled to rely in deciding in the first place whether or not a breach of the peace is likely to occur . |
| 44 | The patient may need to adapt to living in a new way ( e.g. Mr Reynolds ' stoma ) or without a particular organ or a limb which will make considerable alterations in lifestyle ( e.g. an amputation ) . |
| 45 | You have little to lose by attacking with the utmost determination . |
| 46 | I have to admit to hankering after the crackling energy of the latter at the Allegro vivace in the finale ( 2′43″ ) — here , by contrast , it comes stealing in , in flagrant contradiction of the score . |
| 47 | Surely , as a society , we need to begin by looking into the social training of our young people . |