Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Thursday at the 17th Arnold knocks it up to an identical spot and says , ‘ What club is it , Tip ? ’ |
| 2 | Simpson raises his hands in the air , United have got Andy Melville and Steve Foster at the far post , Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it in to the far post , looking for Paul , Paul heads it back over the top — and they 've scored . |
| 3 | It spots already compressed files ( ZIP and ARJ and the like , as well as LZH compressed TIF files and so forth ) and just passes them through to the hard disk unaltered . |
| 4 | ‘ A person who receives goods on sale or return and at once passes them on to someone else under a like contract is entitled to demand them from that third person just as soon as the original owner of the goods has the right to demand them from him , but I am clear that , if he allows a period to elapse before he hands them on to a third person on sale or return , he has done an act which limits and impedes his power of returning the goods . |
| 5 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |
| 6 | yes and that , that in a way leads me on to the next party , if we 're gon na have an agreement between this group or , you know , the other group |
| 7 | The government is now washing its hands of the industry as it hands it over to a rigged market which will leave very few pits in Britain and the destruction of an asset which the British people asked the government to save and which the government said they were going to save . |
| 8 | This leads us on to a third important point about the relation of the Holy Spirit to Jesus . |
| 9 | Which leads us on to the big selling point of these guitars , since this is the first time a production Telecaster has been fitted with a five-way switch . |
| 10 | This consideration leads us on to the third major argument supporting secularism , that based on a lively concern for justice , peace , goodwill and genuine respect for people . |
| 11 | erm Sorry , I think we 'll just stick with Faulkner for a moment , because I think that leads us on to the constant tragedies of battle casualties , which were obviously very much brought in into Oxford whenever people were wounded outside they were often brought in to Oxford to be cared for , there was a hospital out of Yarnton too , but a great many were cared for all over Oxford , and the greatest of course were buried at Christchurch . |
| 12 | But the notion of the ‘ analytic ’ graduate also raises some difficult questions about the impact of the undergraduate curriculum on student development , which leads us on to the next chapter . |
| 13 | That is often the spur which gets them back to a proper relationship with the almighty car . |
| 14 | It 's a fast ascent on to the bealach , and then a right turn takes you on to a surprising flat little plateau sporting a tiny circular lochan . |
| 15 | where the dropped kerb is , that takes you on to the private road . |
| 16 | Clicking on OK takes you back to the current document , leaving COUNT in its original empty state . |
| 17 | One such trip on Lake Maggiore takes you out to the tiny , but exquisite Borromean islands . |
| 18 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 19 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 20 | It gets us off to a wonderful start . ’ |
| 21 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |
| 22 | The second question raised by the dual nature of disciplines — as bodies of knowledge and bodies of people — takes us back to the very distinction between ‘ academic ’ and ‘ professional ’ courses . |
| 23 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 24 | No one could see Old Town Street , at Plymouth , without beginning at once to speculate about the significance of a name like this : and in fact the name takes us back to the very beginnings , to the poverty-stricken little Saxon village of farmers and fishermen , well down behind the Hoe , out of which this great naval city has grown . |
| 25 | He likes to recall China 's ‘ 5,000 year-old tradition of history ’ ( which takes us back to the mythical Yellow Emperor ) and urges China 's battered intellectuals to revive their patriotic spirit . |
| 26 | Be prepared for a delay while the operator puts you through to the relevant extension . |
| 27 | ‘ Encountering an incompetent telephonist , who puts you through to the wrong extension and/or cuts you off , and/or is n't sufficiently clued-up about who 's who and where to reach them ’ . |
| 28 | After each call to a PI routine , simply pressing the Return key reverts you back to the main menu from which another PI routine may be called or you may exit by entering 0 . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't think that quite sets it off to the best advantage , sir . ’ |
| 30 | When Jesus receives news that Lazarus is ill , Thomas urges everyone back to the sick man 's home in Bethany , ‘ that we may die with him ’ . |