Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | We have now finished coaling at Chapmans Well , but had to wait right to the very end for the best coal . |
2 | Then Julius glanced up at her , and for just an instant Jessamy seemed to see right through the protective shield with which he had surrounded himself . |
3 | A concrete breakwater stretches away to sink slowly in the dark distance . |
4 | The fish tend to spawn all around the same time and pay attention to their own broods — equally the parents will see off any attempt by another pair to eat their brood . |
5 | Logo for the Mondiale , also guaranteed to sink deeper into the cool vernacular of the global village ( see inevitably Italia , World Cup Willie ) . |
6 | I was able to breathe only with the utmost difficulty , and my arm hurt like hell . |
7 | Then another gap , just six months , before he got a barmaid from Ipswich who 'd been visiting her granny and was daft enough to wait alone for the late bus . |
8 | But for three hours singers , orchestra and audience ( many of the latter stading ) had to wait impatiently in the overheated atmosphere until the opera should begin . |
9 | The Sun Life West League and the South Wales League are planning to flow together in the 1993–4 season at first XI level , with the cream of the Welsh teams joining the West 's Premier Division . |
10 | Harper had told the court he twice briefly lit tufts of hay in order to see better in the darkened barn . |
11 | Harper , no relation to the girls , of Homecroft Drive , Uckington , admitted he had twice briefly lit tufts of hay to see better in the darkened barn . |
12 | And did the fourth consecutive Tory victory imply that Her Majesty 's loyal Opposition was destined to remain so for the foreseeable future ? |
13 | By 1637 the Church family , from whom the mill takes its name , were in residence and were to remain so until the early part of the 18th century . |
14 | Yet saying aloud to each other 's face , ‘ We do n't want to remain together in the next life ’ would amount to saying , ‘ No love ever existed between us , and no love exists between us now . ’ |
15 | Britain has one of the largest black populations in the Western world , yet magazines seem to try to appeal only to the white mainstream . |
16 | Correlations in this area , especially in non-Marxist work but still in most Marxist work hitherto , have tended to proceed less from the steady analysis of evidence than from relatively a priori concepts , usually of a strictly contemporary kind , to which such evidence as there is is illustratively added . |
17 | France had been the major supporter of Euratom ; as the only one of the Six already possessing a nuclear programme , it obviously hoped to benefit most from the joint funding of the Community and to establish a domination of the nascent industry . |
18 | They are the teeth that stand to benefit most from the conservative approach advocated by Dr Anusavice and like-minded practitioners . |
19 | This course is designed to produce graduates conversant with the techniques of physics and chemistry and armed with the necessary mathematical skill to work effectively at the chemical/physical interface . |
20 | However , the charges on both money and other property may be postponed or other property substituted , especially where the money or property is required to provide somewhere for the assisted person to live . |
21 | After a welcome and introductory talk by Sylvia Townson , the theatre 's public relations officer , visitors were able to wander all over the Edwardian building with most grabbing the chance to stand behind the footlights for a thespians ' eye view of the ornate auditorium . |
22 | Much current research in quantum physics , immunology and genetics seems to come together in the ultimate basis of homoeopathy and helps to throw light on what has until recently been an inexplicable mystery . |
23 | Fatah and the Jordanian authorities started to work co-operatively against the common threat of radical nationalism in the territories . |
24 | After all , we 're going to have to work together for the next week or so , so maybe it will help iron out the problems we keep having . ’ |
25 | We decided to try to get to know one another better , seeing as we 're forced to work together for the next week or so . ’ |
26 | The industry still has problems but I sense an increasing willingness for its component parts to work together for the common good . |
27 | He did n't know if they would succeed , but it showed that , even here , there were people prepared to work together for the common good . |
28 | POLICIES for agricultural support and the environment need to work together to the mutual benefit of farming and the countryside . |
29 | POLICIES for agricultural support and the environment need to work together to the mutual benefit of farming and the countryside . |
30 | There is no special law allowing A , B , and C to meet together in the open air or elsewhere for a lawful purpose , but the right of A to go where he pleases so that he does not commit a trespass , and to say what he likes to B so that his talk is not libellous or seditious , the right of B to do the like , and the existence of the same rights of C , D , E , and F and so on ad infinitum , lead to the consequence that A , B , C , D and a thousand or ten thousand other persons , may ( as a general rule ) meet together in any place where otherwise they each have a right to be for a lawful purpose and in a lawful manner . |