Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them tried to make amends for their own earlier contribution to this state of affairs and moved to include me more fully in the life of the school — a few even started to invite me back home for meals and things . |
| 2 | We 'd drop old ladies off at Victoria Station and the black cab drivers used to be very grumpy with us — in fact they used to punch you very hard in the mouth . |
| 3 | I used to meet him most often in the museums and galleries fixed in rapt contemplation of pictures with that grave , searching look which was one of the beauties of his face . |
| 4 | And for their inspirational captain and star batsman to see himself so early as a lonely figure of torment , when England will need his strengths in the weeks to come , does not bode well . |
| 5 | He yearned to consult his Tarot so as to connect himself however tenuously with the spirit of the Emperor . |
| 6 | You may choose to circle them very lightly with a soft pencil which can easily be erased later or you may use a highlighter pen — it rather depends on how precious the book is ( and , indeed , whether it belongs to you ) . |
| 7 | We then left the tramway ( grid reference SH 822 113 ) , though I mean to explore it more fully on a future occasion , and turned right up a forest track past some quarry buildings . |
| 8 | Had it not been for one other factor , it seems likely that the combined pressures upon English both from inside and outside the discipline might well have caused it to accommodate itself more directly to the service of " vocationalism " , and " social responsibility " , and thus the needs of interdisciplinary and applied work . |
| 9 | So I also want to thank you very deeply from the innermost parts of my heart , for having given an opportunity for some of us to work in Britain to have accepted us and worked with us to build the solidarity movement that brought the apartheid regime to its knees . |
| 10 | Jean and Martin Currie would like to thank you very much for the clothes , blankets and chocolates you have donated recently — these have been distributed through the Glasgow City Mission . |
| 11 | Mr Mason has asked me to thank you very much for the invitation to attend the announcement of the name of the winning architect chosen to design the new Museum on 13th August . |
| 12 | Before long Bill Clinton , who is keen on grand visions , may rediscover these ideas and start trying to apply them once more to the global economy . |
| 13 | If the CBSO strings failed to assert themselves strongly enough in the overall balance at certain crucial points in the first movement , they certainly approached the textural problems of the adagio with great sensitivity and , when it came to them , phrased the main theme as eloquently as the clarinet had done on its first appearance . |
| 14 | forty five and then I 'll have the money to give you straight away for a |
| 15 | A word is not a category at all in the sense used : since a text may be decomposed entirely into a sequence of words , there is no linguistic sense in which one could choose to use something else instead of a word . |
| 16 | Another will want to do it again anyway for the effect . |
| 17 | Though goodness knows why they think they have to do it so early in the morning . |
| 18 | The difficult part about this one is that people all have odd shaped heads , now and you find that if you put them on too high they squidge off like that , and you 've got to think of bandaging an egg basically , if you had an egg with a little hole in one end and you 've got to put a bandage round you 'd have to put it very carefully round the widest bit would n't you for it to stay firm and that 's the secret , everyone 's heads different and as you put it round you 've got to see where you can get it , where , sometimes it 's over the ears , sometimes it 's above the ears according to the peoples ' shaped , different shaped heads everyone 's different , anything else ? |
| 19 | But they will hope to put themselves more firmly on the map under their new name of Darlington Mowden Park next season a move which Darlington opposed . |
| 20 | We 're about to start them again probably in the next week or two . |
| 21 | Inflatables do not need great pressure to keep them hard enough for the sea . |
| 22 | There may be the germs of many good ideas there , but to allow them out and pick them over is to expose them too soon to the light of day . |
| 23 | You may very well find it possible yet to send them home again in the very minted pieces in which they left home with the lady . ’ |
| 24 | You tell Cartier to send someone right away down the track looking for a rope or some such , eh ? |
| 25 | They had surrounded him with horror and stupidity , with all the paraphernalia of this so-called human excess , and they expected it to bring him down , to reduce him still further from the once proud state he had fallen from , but they would not succeed . |
| 26 | He fell on his feet , coiled hard into a ball , and used all the weight of his body and the power of his long legs to project him forward again after the enemy who recoiled from his reaching arms . |
| 27 | Work with the cable behind you and place it over one shoulder to keep it well away from the blades . |
| 28 | Those in the WIP programme , must be prepared to distribute themselves more evenly through the eastern Länder , and less than half will be able to stay in Berlin . |
| 29 | In fact , I used to see him quite regularly as a boy friend . |
| 30 | When placing waterlilies in the pool , it is essential to situate them well away from a fountain or waterfall and in a really sunny position , for they are intolerant of shade or turbulent water . |