Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altarus has a habit of making us think afresh with almost every release . |
| 2 | We shall meet in the course of things , I think , and we will do so on just the footing we have always known . |
| 3 | He can do so in just the way that he believes the totality of appearances can be interpreted without belief in ‘ substances ’ , or that there is no further significance to existence than that it is not a predicate . |
| 4 | In the run up to Post Office privatisation , it is vital that we have our house in order , so that we can compete effectively in both the parcel delivery and letters markets ’ . |
| 5 | When waves break it has been observed that a jet of water at the crest of the wave may move forward with twice the velocity of the wave as a whole , so that high pressures may be exerted for a period of a second or two on the cliff face . |
| 6 | To start with the lowest common denominator , all sections of the Labour Party could agree that the object was to cement a good working relationship between the government and the trade unions , and thereby also to secure widespread political support , to develop a hegemony which would contrast sharply with both the Heath phase and the bitterness and disillusionment which followed compulsory wage restraint and ‘ In Place of Strife ’ in the late '60s . |
| 7 | He did n't , you did n't take out for nearly a year though in n it Bedge ? |
| 8 | They had n't let him go home for nearly a week ; there was no way he could have coped with his freedom or his family . |
| 9 | This was perhaps the one element of veiled blackmail in Baldwin 's dealing with the King , the faint suggestion that if he was too awkward with the Government he might end up without either the Throne or the freedom to marry Mrs Simpson . |
| 10 | The charging light will go out after approximately an hour , when charging is complete . |
| 11 | Those demands , he says , will constantly take the group into new areas and he sees a liklihood that major parts of the product range will change completely at least every decade . |
| 12 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 13 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 14 | ‘ The rules are loose , ’ a WWF spokeman said , ‘ you can get away with quite a lot . |
| 15 | So there was always a bottle of Reisling and a guitar , his Japanese kimono and him staying in bed , looking out of the window at the wolves chasing the train as we went through Siberia in the snow , whereas Geoffrey McCormack ( or Warren Peace as he was known professionally ) and I would get off at nearly every stop if we were awake , and run around on the platform . |
| 16 | If so , public opinion in the western democracies would probably put up with quite a lot of blood and bodies . |
| 17 | But can I come back in there a bit . |
| 18 | She told him that she did not play again for over a week . |
| 19 | she 'll sit down with perhaps a pen in her hand and then go up and |
| 20 | I can sit down in 'ere a bit , ca n't I ? ’ |