Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new format certainly appeared to go down well with the packed crowd . |
| 2 | What has happened because this problem has been recognised is that the police are having to go down there on a regular basis and actually stop people doing this stupid manoeuvre . |
| 3 | Because the polling system is new and complex , the results will not be known for several days , but most observers expect the local party 's candidates to come in far behind the Popular Front and other unofficial groups . |
| 4 | It will nearly always be easier subsequently to reach agreement to extend the partnership than to persuade an elderly partner to stand down voluntarily before the contractual date : hence the relative unpopularity of agreements which simply permit a partner at his option to retire upon reaching a certain age . |
| 5 | He 'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time . |
| 6 | A boy who used to wander off alone into the tall trees which threatened the village and , as though in insolent reminder of their dominance , sent long poking fingers of animated shrub foraging between the dumpy houses , the stone chapel and the corrugated band hot . |
| 7 | The few that did live near the quarry tended to wander off hurriedly in the opposite direction whenever they saw a nome . |
| 8 | Two , to see whether we can knock down the price and whether we can get him to come up here in the same way as Doctor does and do it that way to reduce the costs . |
| 9 | The patient improves for a time , say an hour or more , then either stops getting better and the picture becomes more or less static , or begins to slip back again with the same symptoms . |
| 10 | But it 's nice to stand out there in the warm steam , getting warm . |
| 11 | To find out more about the best sorts of plants to choose for cutting , I asked Daphne Love who , with her husband Sid , has written the Wisley Handbook Flower Arranging from the Garden . |
| 12 | So if you 'd like to find out more about the best conference facilities in Europe call Jill Staples now on 021– . |
| 13 | In the last section of this chapter we will examine the attempts that have been made to find out more about the actual extent of crime , and to provide some sort of indication of the ‘ dark figure ’ of crime and to discover the ‘ real ’ rather than the recorded rate and character of crime . |
| 14 | Also he was interested to find out more about the dead girl and her father , Ipuky . |
| 15 | He had come to find out more about the antique dealer . |
| 16 | To find out more about the different makes of plumbing fittings , you really need to get hold of the manufacturers ' catalogues . |
| 17 | The beauty of the world around you inspires you to find out more about an artistic or creative sphere of knowledge and experience . |
| 18 | Meanwhile they 're trying to find out more from the injured . |
| 19 | In no sense did it correspond to the experience of student activism that so many of my generation were to go through elsewhere over the next few years . |
| 20 | Anglo-Scottish trade came virtually to a halt , and did not begin to pick up again until the late sixteenth century . |
| 21 | The need is primarily for affordable housing ( to buy or rent ) for young people wanting to set up home for the first time , or for the elderly wanting smaller , more manageable accommodation . |
| 22 | This information seems to fit in well with the growing body of sporting opinion that good physical fitness training is intense , punctuated by good amounts of rest in preparation for the next effort . |
| 23 | You 're not going to walk off now into the rising dawn . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've got to paddle out again after a bad experience . |
| 25 | Chancellor Norman Lamont is about to announce a further cut in base rates , but most people fear they are just as likely to go up again in the New Year , according to a new survey . |
| 26 | Then out to his bed in a loft over the cowshed , leaving the family to draw in together in a cosy , alien-excluding unit around the flaming and hissing timber , to lie and smoke by the light of a candle and think o better days in the orphanage and wonder in unembittered fashion — for he had been happy there — about the mother who had abandoned him and the even shadowier lover who must have abandoned her . |
| 27 | I 'd like you to put up there for a few days , and try to scrape acquaintance with her . |
| 28 | Team one they want to put out more in the first division and , I could not be party to that team one and it was an atrocity to use such terminology . |
| 29 | Asked for her reaction , Margaret Thatcher gave vent to her feelings about the operation and also , I suspect , about what she saw as ever critical broadcasters who always found something to carp about even after an undoubted success . |
| 30 | First , that both sides had ‘ second strike capability ’ , i.e. , enough weapons buried in silos or submerged in submarines to hit back devastatingly after a nuclear attack . |