Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably this could be contemplated only in a limited number of constituencies , since anything more ambitious would knock the stuffing out of local activists in one party or the other . |
| 2 | So she began : ‘ Oh Mouse , do you know the way out of this pool ? |
| 3 | and you ended with you had to do little squares and the you put your fing finger through it there 's nothing nothing on the you do n't catch the material down at all |
| 4 | You can concentrate the detecting on to one single personality , and thus concentrate your reader 's attention equally . |
| 5 | So much had been expected , yet it was a carbon copy of the wipe-out on the same track three years ago , and may signal a pruning down in future transatlantic visits for the Breeders ' Cup . |
| 6 | Does the picture show the subject off to best advantage ? |
| 7 | Alternatively , you might break the goal down into smaller mini-goals , and spread these over a few weeks . |
| 8 | ‘ Roger , Roger , do n't be so modest , you ca n't break the door down with those ! ’ |
| 9 | A right-handed form of the tau neutrino would bring the number up to four , which is too many . |
| 10 | And if a set goes wrong later , a service engineer can bring the picture back to normal by plugging in a computer handset which re-adjusts the circuits in the same way . |
| 11 | And as Mary Douglas ( 1973 : 15 ) had pointed out , ‘ if we can not bring the argument back from tribal ethnography to ourselves , then there is little point in starting it at all ’ . |
| 12 | Alderman Jim Kirkpatrick said a study by another group of consultants had shown that expenditure of around £4m would bring the plant up to European standards . |
| 13 | for one moment it seemed that the bald man would carry the situation through by sheer force of character . |
| 14 | So what I 'm hoping that this Council will do is send a message up to White Hall that this is an abuse of executive power to stifle the challenges of t to the authority . |
| 15 | All right , I 'll send a PC over with written confirmation , but meanwhile get on with it . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Who 'd believe the daylight out of that fool , reading magazines with one hand , stuffing his face with another … . ’ |
| 17 | I did manage to lose half a stone ( 7lb/3kg ) , but I was so hungry all the time that I would not keep the diet up for longer than a month . |
| 18 | We would like the photo back at some time but after nearly 40 years , time is not of the essence . |
| 19 | I shall divide the question up into three . |
| 20 | A more effective approach , however , would simply divide the morning up into small time zones with the reward for playing nicely available at the end of each . |
| 21 | It is in this sense that EMU would tear the heart out of national parliaments . |
| 22 | Whilst sailing in surf you should always keep an eye out for these sets since if you do n't you may suddenly find yourself amongst the larger waves whose ‘ rinse cycles ’ are considerably more vigorous than that of a washing machine . |
| 23 | One night spent together did n't make a relationship out of open warfare . |
| 24 | Every autumn my mother would make a football out of old rags and we had some rare games , often getting literally bogged down after any rain , with the imitation football getting too heavy to kick any distance . |
| 25 | Gon na take it out because then we can move the bed over to that wall . |
| 26 | Partly because those who served in garrisons had to be ready to serve in the field when required ( for a castle acted as a base where soldiers could remain when not in the field , and from which they could control the countryside around by mounted raids within a radius of , say , a dozen miles ) , partly because of an increasing difficulty in securing active support from the nobility and gentry for the war in France , English armies at the end of the war sometimes included a greater ratio of archers to men-at-arms than ever before , sometimes 7:1 or even 10:1 , rather than the more usual 3:1 under Henry V and the parity of archers to men-at-arms normally found in the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 27 | At night , the 6 volt Sensor Light is controlled by a reliable passive infra-red motion detector that will detect a person up to 35 ‘ ft ‘ away . |
| 28 | For example , we know very well that erm for women having children can cost a woman up to half her lifetime 's earnings in comparison with a man . |
| 29 | Former Environment Secretary Jose Lutzenberger argues that the government 's first priority should be to regenerate the soil of the 400,000 square kilometres of the Amazon basin that have already been deforested , rather than encourage the opening up of virgin forest land . |
| 30 | The men 'll have the roof off with much more of that . |