Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you are able to make cables efficiently and know how they normally look , this might be a good time to try them out in more unusual yarns . |
| 2 | He seemed far too competent for life to catch him out in so trivial a way . |
| 3 | Before 1962 he had attempted to modify it through at least five distinct initiatives : by sponsoring a political confederation of Western European states ; by proposing a restructuring of NATO ; by fostering a special relationship with the Federal Republic of Germany ; by decolonizing and establishing new connections with Third World nations ; and by pushing ahead with the development of France 's nuclear weapons programme . |
| 4 | The Board 's activities have been concentrated into three growth areas — around Fort William , Inverness and Caithness , where almost one-half of the labour force of the region live — and the aim is to strengthen them further as both industrial and service centres . |
| 5 | Leopold was doomed to spend the rest of his life in Salzburg , and Wolfgang was not to leave it again for over two more weary years . |
| 6 | But remember to keep them away from very young brothers or sisters who may think they are sweets and try to eat them . |
| 7 | Because they had to keep him there for so damn long in this inquiry er the senate inquiry and all the stuff on the Lusitania . |
| 8 | So they either have to accept this noxious side-effect of their coping strategy , or to project it outwards with increasingly strident , dogmatic and simplistic vigour . |
| 9 | We had a pizza and we were going to share it out between how many people ? |
| 10 | You did , so he 's come , he 's knocking that list off the total figure , with , because that list was higher , subsequently I 've managed to knock it down by about three or four percent anyway , erm , he 's , he 's knocking off a bigger sum than he should to produce a smaller welding price . |
| 11 | Some said she was obsessed with her weight and determined to keep it down to under six stones . |
| 12 | ‘ As I told you when we first spoke , ’ Emily said quietly , ‘ I can take your debts on my own books and I can raise enough money to start us off in quite good style . |
| 13 | With a colossal effort , she managed to hold it there for about ten seconds . |
| 14 | I remember when I was out on the road , I had a particular connection with , we had a motor bike policy , and it was an appalling risk , and it came up for renewal , and er , nobody had take it round the market , and I mean , that that was an idol threat , because nobody in their right mind would want this particular motor and we said , well not if they want to jack up the premium on it , they wanted to jack it up by about thirty or forty per cent , and and the broker was not very happy about this . |
| 15 | What we have in channel two is a sort of Fender Twin type of response with the facility to drive it hard at almost any volume . |
| 16 | Think of the difference it makes when you can look at programmes like that in the classroom on a video player : you can stop the programme at any point , you can go back and look at something again , you can choose to break it up into as many short sections as you want to and you can come back to it another day to refresh students ' memories . |
| 17 | Another A group perspective is that girls do succeed at what primary schools ask them to do , but that primary schools and teachers fail to prepare them adequately for more advanced mathematics . |
| 18 | We did n't really need to cut it up into so many small pieces i would work but we 'd get two of these each cos we 've got twelve little pieces now and there are only six of us to share it out so we 'd say , Oh well have er we 'll we 'll have two pieces each two twelfths . |
| 19 | The last play I worked out that w we had one four hundred and thirty seven of those thirty seven would be er freebies to the homes in , in to bring it down to about four hundred and on the ticket money we took in , I would say about a hundred and twenty of those were erm er concessions . |