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Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1	It may also be useful in case the patient becomes unexpectedly tired , and needs to sit down for a moment .
2	The Westcoast mainline railway runs through the village of Elvanfoot , and locals say the work which Scotrail needs to carry out on a bridge will cut off them off entirely .
3	The practical tasks a carer has to carry out for a dementia sufferer are not necessarily , of course , the hardest part of care .
4	Now you 'll see him in a moment , he this guy driving he wants to go off on a slip road .
5	Since a much-used living room has to stand up to a lot of traffic , it needs a superior quality , heavy duty carpet of either 100 per cent wool or 80 per cent wool/20 per cent nylon .
6	For political reasons as much as for economic ones , the government needs to come up with a scheme that is simple ( so that its essence can be explained in one sentence ) and seen to be fair ( the duke pays more than the dustman ) .
7	Experience with rural advice in the north east area has shown that telephone advisers become skilled at solving basic problems over the phone and recognising those where the client needs to come in to a bureau for in-depth advice .
8	Ring her up , see if she wants to come down for a drink .
9	Ask him if he will wants to come down in a minute .
10	He has to come up with a strategy which will instill new financial disciplines in Polish industry and satisfy the demands of the workers/public en masse .
11	A stunted little boy suddenly starts to shoot up like a weed , a plain adolescent turns into a beauty overnight , and well-preserved middle-aged men who reach sixty still looking forty-five suddenly make up the deficit and more than overtake their age , all in a few months .
12	When a cut has to extend up to a wall , for example , the sole plate can be moved back , out of the way , by turning just one central screw .
13	They 're not really severe at all , I mean , they 're very much intended for , you know , the weekend er type of people , you know , somebody that just wants to get out on a Sunday afternoon with the children .
14	erm there are times , perhaps , when one feels this is a little bit dull and wants to skip on for a page or two , but I suspect that that is the case with most novels that one would want to read nowadays .
15	When the end of a glass rod is heated in a flame the glass softens and tends to round off into a blob because surface tension remains active long after permanent mechanical resistance to deformation has disappeared .
16	He intends to set up as a PR and communications consultant , freelance writer and designer .
17	It tends to die off after a year unless the side shoots are removed .
18	Eventually ( and assuming some kind of drastic disruption does not take place ) a given space tends to settle down into a state of balance .
19	Sometimes , when activity is particularly intense , the wall of the crater is breached and a small lava flow emerges and flows away downhill , and if this happens , the activity tends to quieten down for a while .
20	A crisis tends to arise out of a deterioration in health , or even the death of a carer , spouse or relative .
21	On the M40 , our police driver struggles to keep up with a car in the outside lane .
22	His body always seems to bulk up after a day like this : he can see increased sponginess around his waist and chest .
23	DAVID Rocastle aims to get off to a flier with Leeds today by chalking up a hat-trick in the Makita Tournament .
24	So , if a woman tries to keep up with a man , drink for drink , she is likely to feel the effects of alcohol sooner .
25	The older child , 3 , likes to go out on a waveski , sitting between dad 's legs .
26	’ I 'm a loner who likes to curl up on a sofa with a good book , ’ she says .
27	He spoke of ‘ the type of person who always offers to wash up after a party ; the type of person who , winning a prize in a raffle , will give it back to be re-raffled ’ .