Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [adv prt] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later on if he is still not contented , he may need to go on to realise the peak experience , which Maslow spoke of as a desire for the beautiful . |
| 2 | And , at one point , Malcolm must have asked him if he 'd consider coming over to join the band , because Hell wrote to us via him saying that it sounded interesting but that because money and visas would be a problem he just could n't . |
| 3 | The Stella Artois Grass Court Championships , the principal Grass Court Championship for men , immediately prior to Wimbledon , will include at least six of the top players who will hope to go on to capture the Wimbledon title . |
| 4 | If you mess up the hour or so afterwards , you no doubt will never want to line up to cover the distance again . |
| 5 | The Left tradition was reinforced by the belief that the war would not have broken out had the Chamberlain government done something to prevent it , a view held by many who had nothing to do with the Left . |
| 6 | Following such a complaint , the witness may have looked around to investigate the cause of the accident and they should be asked about this . |
| 7 | As one of the innocent men remarked outside court : ‘ Much more would have come out had the trial continued . ’ |
| 8 | I think I must have twisted round to get the shampoo awkward . |
| 9 | I could have messed about to get the price under 20m to make them legit. teans but I could n't be arsed ! |
| 10 | Subjectively , it takes much less time to display thirty lines of 72 point text at a magnification level of 15% that it would take to scroll through to find the bit you want to edit at 100% magnification . |
| 11 | Such a setting , as Coleridge acknowledges in the poem , he might once have sought out to echo the mood of a ‘ sad gloom-pamper 'd Man ’ ; but now his descriptions of the sea breeze moaning through the house , the thunder of the ‘ onward-surging tides ’ and the watchfire shining out from Flat Holm in the Bristol Channel , are powerfully transformed by the central fact of his love for Sara , and become part of a vast natural counterpoint to intimate and far from gloomy thoughts . |
| 12 | You do actually have to look through to see the light coming out ! |
| 13 | They might have set out to reform the planning system , giving greater independence to public enterprises , establishing more effective accounting and regulation of economic performance , and also enlarging the share of medium- and small-scale private enterprise in production , trade and services ; in short , to move gradually towards a system of market socialism or to a mixed economy in which public ownership and planning would still have a substantial place . |
| 14 | Well I I think its , the way that the plaintiff puts the case on that point my Lord is that even if the defendant Mr took the view er that it would not have been proper for such a notice to be served , in view of what the plaintiff was saying to him about his wish to get out of the contract , the fact that it was available to him should have been brought to his attention and then as Mr was saying that I sorry I do n't feel I can do this on your behalf because it 's not proper in the circumstances or whatever erm , should then have gone on to advise the plaintiff either to do it himself or to go and seek independent advice . |
| 15 | How , for instance , would he have gone about getting the dynamite ? ’ |
| 16 | In England and Wales they 'll have to pay up to double the Poll Tax on any empty farm cottages they own , although farmers in Scotland are going to be exempt from this . |
| 17 | Colonel Moore , moved and perturbed , would have stood up to encounter the man squarely on but the pressure of Hope 's grip kept him down in his seat . |
| 18 | If they , if they do n't become media personalities and do all the things they do on the telly and visit the hospitals , then we might very well get fed up paying the money for them when you consider the Queen is the richest person in the world is she not ? |
| 19 | After that , says Mr Gardner , Miss Richardson will come racing back to attend the December premieres in Paris and London of Damage , the Louis Malle adaption of Josephine Hart 's novel about a middle-aged man obsessed with his son 's fiancee , in which she stars with Jeremy Irons . |
| 20 | And when the twins were babies and shat in Chola 's lap , she 'd call out , ‘ Chu chu chu , ’ and the red bitch would come running in to clean the mess . |