Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 He can stay on as a sort of pensioner up at Framwell . ’
2 We can not therefore budget down to the level of the individual patient .
3 With luck , these two new Windows-based spreadsheets should help Lotus hang on to the 40% of the market it currently controls .
4 Could n't you hang on till the end of the season ? ’
5 Though her hair was not quite dry Franca began to plait it very fast , letting a long thick plait materialise between her nimble hands , then tossing it over her shoulder and letting it hang down over the back of the chair .
6 ‘ All you have to do is hang in for a couple of days , ’ she told herself .
7 The hospital management team for Claybury rejected the idea of the quadrant hospital concept , since this could not tie in with the principle of community care .
8 This would tie in with the kind of creature that could take advantage of the first abundance of flowering plants and special insects emerging in the late Cretaceous .
9 The Committee took the view that lawyers are unapproachable because of the inaccessibility of premises and their unwelcoming nature , because the methods of work do not tie in with the needs of clients , and because of a lack of response to the needs of linguistic minorities .
10 He could fall in with the desire of Sapt , marry her secretly and fill the empty place in the Elphberg dynasty .
11 Finish by saying ‘ now all fall over ’ and , as you do it , you lean in to the person next to you and everyone will fall over like a row of dominoes .
12 If any of us let go and started breathing again , one of them would fall off into a lake of mud .
13 There 's no specific area that I can lay my finger on to explain why West Indian kids underachieve … what is inevitable is that a lot of West Indian children particularly the bright ones will do fairly well up to either the beginning or the middle of the fourth year , and for some peculiar reason their progress will fall off towards the end of the fifth year .
14 I jerked back , tingling with fear , feeling it peel off like a strand of elastoplast .
15 So , for example , your High Elf army could include up to a quarter of its points value as Wood Elves chosen from the Wood Elf list , or Dwarfs chosen from the Dwarfs list .
16 So , for example , your Orc and Goblin army could include up to a quarter of its points value as Dark Elves chosen from the Dark Elf list , or Chaos chosen from the Chaos list .
17 So , for example , your Empire army could include up to a quarter of its points value as Wood Elves chosen from the Wood Elf list , or Dwarfs chosen from the Dwarf list .
18 The relay will usually free up after a couple of doses of light oil in this manner .
19 The sidh , the strange , cold , faery race , who would steal up to the gates of Tara and sing the Wolfline into the world …
20 so while our climbers rest and enjoy the sea air we can now catch up with the rest of the sporting action …
21 Many ex-servicemen had given up all hope of ever seeing the tribute after the Ministry of Defence warned supplies could dry up following the break-up of the USSR .
22 Which was supposed to open and flap back at the end of the world and let her out , resurrected .
23 They saw him start and jump back to the shelter of the bank .
24 As a Save Eldorado Campaign splutters on , the writers seem content to let it fizzle out like a glass of flat Spanish beer .
25 He 'll probably merge back into the Department of Transport .
26 If he could root back through the maze of moment and incident , would he find premonitory signs sticking out like dire figurations of chicken entrails ?
27 You ca n't save calculations , but you can track back through a chain of arithmetic , alter figures , and see the alterations reflected in the final sum .
28 We could just fall back on a bit of sweets and chocolate or something in the end but I 'd like to get some
29 To measure sincerity in weapons proved very difficult , and so , from time to time , the American delegation would fall back on the mantra of peace , peace to which only Iraq was the obstacle , peace in which all these obsessions about the latest arms and the best would be redundant .
30 If his education were below that of his audience he could not fall back on the validity of the Sacraments he administered for support .
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