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

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1 Yes and did you stay on at the hospital then ?
2 It was at this moment that I decided I must learn to dance , so that I could stay on at the pensione instead of roaming about .
3 I 'm surprised you did n't fall over on the way here . ’
4 It 's J 's birthday on April 2nd & they are having a party ( at last ! ) so I 'll catch up on the news then — they are v. seldom at Gayfield St these days , so I never see them .
5 we might see boats fall out of the sky too .
6 The tawny owl sample contains a lot of murids compared with other owls , and for this species the percentage molar loss is unexpectedly low because the murid teeth do not fall out of the maxilla so easily .
7 But you can not simply opt out of the issue altogether , no matter who you are : whatever choice you make in this area will have a meaning and give a signal .
8 The meat she would dry out in the sun tomorrow .
9 Realizing I could n't hang around on the dole forever waiting for the Tate Gallery to offer me an exhibition , and also that my boyfriend , also on the dole , was not likely to be able to support me , I decided to go for further training .
10 But you must n't hang about in the morning then , neither !
11 But since we ca n't carry on with the experiment now we 've got to leave that till later on .
12 When an English-speaker went into the foyer of the regiment , a NAAFI-style canteen where you could buy beer , cigarettes , sweets and memorabilia , he would head over to the table where the Mafia was sitting .
13 Maura had seen the hammer descend on to the cartridge just as she heard Roy 's voice come from the house .
14 Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer .
15 I 've got an appointment with Shrimpton , the lawyer , at four and I shall look in at the shop afterwards . ’
16 If everyone who is anyone does n't actually touch down on the planet fairly often , at least their activities come to be known through Uulaa 's favourite indoor sport ( after making money ) — trading information , along with rumour and scandal .
17 ‘ Why do n't you just ring through to the hairdresser now ?
18 At fire stations and first-aid posts and rest centres , men and women would look up at the sky just as she , Vi McKeown , was doing now .
19 Chen , watching Karr , saw a small movement in the big man 's face ; saw him look up at the woman appreciatively .
20 We saw him look out of the window once or twice . ’
21 As we work , we can look out of the window now and then and see the students doing physical exercises and practising sports for the sports day on Monday — they 're very keen on physical jerks here , and at Peking we used to be woken up at 7 a.m. to find the Chinese staff doing P.E .
22 A Scarborough fishing boat will sail out of the harbour tomorrow after major restoration work which followed a collision at sea .
23 There was no one about in the woods , so she 'd better hurry back to the town as fast as she could .
24 I must work round to the subject gradually .
25 And we 'll drop in on the way home to watch a few election results or do you think if I start having a party tomorrow night it 's gon na get out of hand ?
26 I do n't drop down into the deck well , overcrowded as it is , but remain on the edge , with arms woven around the chrome railings for safety .
27 ‘ We made a pact , that even if we split up , we would meet up on the bridge again one day .
28 I 'd meet up with the others again on top and we 'd descend together .
29 The orchestra did not miss out on the fun either , starting with an unscored game of hunt-the-missing-French-horn-part ( eventually found lurking on the bassoonist 's stand ) , which delayed the start .
30 They did n't move out of the area necessarily .
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