Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Eric Liddell could wish his rivals good luck before grinding them into the track , and a National Hunt jockey would slow down to help a fellow rider back into the saddle . |
| 2 | Our discussion this time will restrict itself much more to the two chosen passages , and will need only to take a brief look at a few details of the narratives leading up to them , and at the stories that immediately follow them . |
| 3 | Over billions of years it will slowly fizzle out to become a black dwarf . |
| 4 | As you get more fluent in the language the conditioning rules will start to make sense and will help you know how to pronounce a new word without having to practise it , and before too long it will all be automatic . |
| 5 | Having solved the two-cylinder problem we are not much wiser ; we still do n't know how to tackle a general problem . |
| 6 | By the way Sid would you know how to put a new lamp , light bulb thing in a fridge ? |
| 7 | She would n't know how to use a real weapon ( fnar fnar ) , so they sent me a to sharpen my axe on this month 's adventure offerings . |
| 8 | I teach students who are often illiterate , who do not know how to use a hand-held calculator , who have never seen a film with subtitles or read a classic work of literature , and who can not spell even the name of important people in their field ( for example , psychology majors who spell Freud as Frued ) . |
| 9 | Ideally , all drivers should know how to handle a skidding car . |
| 10 | His Spanish was almost non-existent , and he did not know how to study a foreign language , so I gave him lessons . |
| 11 | Without explaining blacksmithing in any great detail ( there are many fine books on the subject ) , the following will demonstrate how to make a simple box bellows and a woodframed forge which need only be lined with firebrick or clay . |
| 12 | We asked anyone who could do so to write a short statement about what the chapter was about . |
| 13 | We would do better to adopt a direct approach and tackle the problem at its source by attempting to reduce the risk of police mistakes in the first place . |
| 14 | Any smallholder would do well to join a local ATB group , particularly if he has taken on his own farm with relatively little experience . |
| 15 | He would do well to have a quick refresher on Marxist economics . |
| 16 | The network will study how to manage a large collection of computers , which are constantly being switched in and out of the Universe network . |
| 17 | Now it seemed to me that one thousand six hundred was initially as a result of survey work or shall we say investigation into the housing waiting list carried out by the York housing department , and I have to say that I have a certain respect for the York housing department , and they have a certain reasonable and good reputation within the region as a housing department , and so there seems to me that there is a gr a there is a potential to underestimate er the the affordable requirement that 's been put to you , another point erm I 'd just like perhaps to seek a little clarification from Mr Curtis , was was unfortunately I was looking something else up or my attention was diverted when he gave some figures for Ryedale and Selby , I think he said , and I 'll happily stand corrected on this , that if you take away the York requirement figure from his ten thousand four hundred for Greater York , then the remainder he would apportion to Selby and Ryedale , so that Selby got four thousand two hundred , sorry , so that Ryedale got four thousand two hundred and Selby got one thousand seven hundred , erm that does n't add up to ten thousand four hundred and I I I in total , and I I wondered where the rest was coming from , if I the point correctly . |
| 18 | For the first few trips outside , you should plan only to go a short way , so that the patient can get used to the distracting sights and sounds . |
| 19 | But you go to the middle of nowhere and Nicky would look up to see a black cloud on the horizon and ask what it was . |
| 20 | In the house example , we can choose the order in which we see the parts of the building but we surely can not see occluded portions , and we surely can not look up to see a thatched roof — because that 's the kind of roof we want to see — when the roof is tiled . |
| 21 | Halfway along he unlocked a garage and let the door slide up to reveal a newish Range Rover . |
| 22 | In other words , the choreographer should set out to create a particular style for the whole dance design , yet within it be free to vary the way of performing a step without breaking away from or distorting the overall rhythmic quality and phrasing of his enchaînements . |
| 23 | In what is regarded as a make-or-break move for his political career , Mr Lamont will set out to demonstrate a clear route out of recession while underlining the Government 's clamp on public spending . |
| 24 | But I do n't set out to impose a cathartic experience on my readers . |
| 25 | The idea was that a 486 user would rush out to buy a new processor for her or his machine as they became available and this facility would mean the death of the 386 . |
| 26 | Two pieces of string can join together to form a single string ; ================================================================= in the case of open strings they simply join at the ends ( Fig. 10.3 ) , while in the case of closed strings it is like the two legs joining on a pair of trousers ( Fig. 10.4 ) . |
| 27 | She saw Guy jerk back to avoid a slashing blow to the throat , then they closed again , rolling right to the edge of the treacherous stairway . |
| 28 | After all , amongst the girls who do not obtain the top 16+ grades , or who do not go on to do A level mathematics , are some very able pupils . |
| 29 | Once you have established what your options are , you should go on to produce a specific recommendation or set of recommendations . |
| 30 | She felt all alone ‘ Was there one who would come down to help a young girl , desperate with fear , ready to be set upon by a mob ? |