Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] and [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 There was no sign of any other cars or tanks or armoured personnel carriers and no indication that the police Stukas were waiting to come in and bomb the last pockets of resistance .
2 Erm they are going into the villages , they 're making contacts with individual peasants erm it 's those peasants that , that they get to stand up and make the first accusations , it 's those peasants who join the Party erm and the process can build up in , in a way which was more difficult before then .
3 has having enough opportunity to go off and make a second marriage , which I do n't deny them but they must accept their responsibilities .
4 ‘ There were times when I just wanted to give up and catch the next train home , ’ said Bill , ‘ but it was the thought of all the people at home praying for us and wishing us well that kept us going . ’
5 Wages for housework bypasses all those other struggles — well , I mean , with wages for housework , women would n't have to go out and take a second job .
6 If , however , you find yourself carrying three or four such problems it seems clear that there is nothing for it but to go back and attack the first difficulties again .
7 It made me want to run out and play the first two albums post haste , which is no bad thing .
8 ‘ I 've now arranged to fly out and spend the last two weeks of his working trip with him as a kind of nosing-around holiday while I 'm about it , but the first two weeks … ’
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