Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Rivers Authority in Wales has called for a ban on conifer plantations in sensitive areas , but Nicholas Luard and the Bara Ceirch group feel they need to act more quickly to save the river . |
| 2 | Gilmour hit back : ‘ Pat Clinton does n't stop working long enough to have the time to use his head . |
| 3 | Without this productivity increase exports could not have expanded fast enough to balance the additional imports required to sustain the 1955–61 expansion . |
| 4 | They say that America would have done better simply to import the Canadian system of national insurance financed by taxes . |
| 5 | It grew colder still as the night fell , a crackling frost under a sickle moon , but the coldness did not reach into the Norderns ' flat and it would not have done so even had the central heating broken down , the joy and relief of the family generating enough warmth to melt the polar ice-cap if necessary . |
| 6 | Once the board has turned you will have to move forwards quickly to kill the turn before it goes too far . |