Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 2 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 3 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 4 | Erm , I 'm sorry to come back to the central overheads er again , but erm it , considering that the other income largely related to ninety one , I 'm a little unclear why the central costs went down , I ca n't believe there 's been any salary cuts at |
| 5 | But of course it is nice to come back to the same places over and over again , sort of er see friendly faces . |
| 6 | In the Junior Singles final John Nolan of Blackrock looked almost certain to go through to the British Isles Championship when he led Belmont 's Paul Daly 20-11 . |
| 7 | It has a price tag of twelve thousand pounds … and its maker hopes to sell up to a hundred machines a year . |
| 8 | For those , you have to traipse off to the main offices . |
| 9 | As to the first , it is not surprising that poorer citizens , especially those from more distant demes , found it hard to walk in to the frequent meetings of the Council ( though the argument from distance should not be overstated : Andokides ( i.38 ) mentions an early morning walk of twenty miles from Laurion to Athens as nothing special ) . |
| 10 | Tierrie Molignengo , who is 23 , works at the 15 North Parade restaurant , and he hopes he 's going to win through to the National Finals which take place in April , with his menu for four , which has by the rules of the game , to cost less than £35 . |
| 11 | But a litter of nine Chinese Shar-Pei puppies are expected to fetch up to a thousand pounds each . |
| 12 | They had forgotten to lock up , ever eager to hurry back to the endless rounds of torturing and giggling that are the happy lot of a sadistic underling . |
| 13 | A new Frankenstein monster was about to lurch on to the front pages of the tabloids — the proto-fascist skinhead , scourge of the immigrant and the helpless OAP . |
| 14 | And yet there had been a fleeting moment , as he 'd held her tight in his arms , when she 'd found herself longing to lower her defences , to give in to the unfamiliar forces driving through her body with his touch . |
| 15 | I mean effectively , I always wanted to go back to the middle ages er , with , with the history books of English society . |
| 16 | But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’ |
| 17 | But to go back to the old ways ‘ would be a colossal mistake , ’ he declared . |
| 18 | Nevertheless you also feel pressure on you to go back to the old ways . |
| 19 | After the luxury of labour-saving devices it is just too tedious to go back to the old ways . |
| 20 | We need to go back to the old ways : I mean , think of it , it was in the Andes that corn was improved , that the potato was developed . |
| 21 | Next evening , bruised and with minor cuts and a cracked arm , I forced myself to go back to the three bars though , by then , very nervous . |
| 22 | To identify classes you have to go back to the intentional properties of individuals — to the judgments , desires and aspirations which are essential to explaining what they then do in the class struggle . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , in a number of respects explanatory surveys failed to match up to the strict requirements of the logic required . |
| 24 | If she could make her way along to the right ladder , she would be able to climb up to the painted clouds high overhead . |
| 25 | And some spare copies of the photographs that came out from the DTI this afternoon — we ran off dozens to send out to the regional forces , but I snaffled six . ’ |
| 26 | British Coal insists that is main aim is to hold on to the three-year contracts with the two electricity generators , which will be renegotiated in March next year . |
| 27 | The Germans had launched a counter-offensive against the Allied bridgehead at Anzio and air support , against enemy troop concentration and lines of communication , became vital in preventing loss of the bridgehead. 223 Squadron moved from Foggia to Biferno/Campomarino to join 3 ( South African Air Force ) Wing on March 13 and after one day to settle in to the new surroundings was tasked against the San Benedetto marshalling yards . |
| 28 | Washington ordered the initial 1,800 heavily armed troops to sweep into the capital to save up to a million Somalis starving to death . |
| 29 | Yet it is impossible for an ordinary woman , perhaps with two or three young children , or by now middle-aged , to live up to the sexual fantasies built up within the containing cell . |
| 30 | In later life the daughter may find herself self-condemned as , without adequate inner resources , she fails to live up to the ideal standards she has set for herself . |