Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Still , I 'd better not stay long with the sepoys attacking … |
| 2 | It could be said that from the point of view of social research , the world only exists as data and data can exist only through the interpretations placed on materials gathered from the world . |
| 3 | But by March that year the Chiefs of Staff were recording a victory for their view of the Middle East , and were arguing that this implied that Britain must hang on to the right to return to bases in Egypt , even in the absence of agreement . |
| 4 | Mother poured hair dye round the hoof ; even that did not act sufficiently as a lubricant to set the poor beast free . |
| 5 | It is highly unlikely that any consultancy you appoint will know enough about a company to allow it to undertake the audit without considerable input from your senior management . |
| 6 | It was Susy who took up most of the lunchtime conversation , partly because I probably did n't know enough about the sport to talk about it sensibly to James . |
| 7 | They differ throughout the mag and certainly do n't tie in with the colours given in the boxes of different sections in the Menu section at the front . |
| 8 | She insisted on knowing who her intruder was , and so she would wait down by the car to see who emerged from the building . |
| 9 | The first is anyone who is in any way mentally deficient , as such people can not cooperate sufficiently with the therapist to achieve the desired result . |
| 10 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 11 | He 'd jump up in the morning to see his friends again |
| 12 | Tackling a black run in a blizzard was a worry , but when you only have a long weekend you ca n't hang around for the sun to shine . |
| 13 | A loose net was fixed between the prongs of the ‘ Y ’ and thus , with the open prongs held firmly in the bed of the river , the fishermen would wait quietly for the fish to run into his net . |
| 14 | This effectively risks a breakdown in the Co-operative Principle ( CP ) , though the CP can only really break down by a reader stopping reading . |
| 15 | Try to hold these contradictory memories together : do n't give in to the temptation to simplify your experience by discarding one important aspect of it . |
| 16 | ‘ And , even if I did n't , for you , signorina , I 'd immediately send down to the cellar to get it . ’ |
| 17 | Southern readers might do better with the edition covering their own counties . |
| 18 | All these projects will benefit greatly from the advances made by the Degas retrospective of 1988–89 , which bravely integrated sculptures with paintings and pastels in both exhibition and scholarly catalogues . |
| 19 | This evening 's heavy rain will clear away with the winds dying but it will stay pretty cloudy with the odd shower . |
| 20 | Then collect me and we 'll head off to the Yard to deal with the mess that 's going on there . ’ |
| 21 | You did n't dare show up without the work completed and damned near perfect . |
| 22 | The allegation was foreign to Papert and his colleagues , but it is true that Servan-Schreiber would be politically safer and the centre financially more secure , if French industry could contribute substantially to the hardware required for pilot projects . |
| 23 | We get rid of the cycling working party and what do we do out of the ashes rises another prefix , the transport work . |
| 24 | So , for example , s 24 assumes that all partners may take part in the management of the business , that no person can be introduced as a partner without the consent of all the existing ones , that all the partners are entitled to share equally in the capital and profits of the business and must contribute equally towards the losses sustained by the firm . |
| 25 | Rockdwelling species , like Neolamprologus brevis will do well in a set-up containing Goby Cichlids . |
| 26 | Although the frog is fearful of the scorpion 's sting , they finally agree that the frog will swim across with the scorpion sitting on its back . |
| 27 | Any forward movement will prevent a spin from developing , whereas failure to move forwards can result either in the spin continuing or , if the opposite rudder has been applied , in the direction of the spin suddenly reversing . |
| 28 | Sons would volunteer and rush off to the village to bring back a ‘ set of couches ’ , proudly waiting for the praise which she would generously give , though they might not be quite what she expected . |
| 29 | This last would look altogether like a castle keep but for the fantasy of its roof , which has a large slate cone perched , candle-snuffer fashion , on top of an already pointed lower roof . |
| 30 | The sail may appear to look better with the leech closed , but actual performance has shown that , other than in very light conditions , the boat will sail better with the main opened up . |