Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are looking forward to a visit from prominent physiotherapist Vivian Grisogono , who , with her vast and expert knowledge of treating sports injuries , has much to impart about the way we enthusiastically drive our bodies on to perform at a pace that often proves harmful . |
| 2 | He went on to work as a designer and translator for an Austrian publisher , where the manager , Otto Preminger ( later a celebrated film director ) introduced him to Max Reinhardt . |
| 3 | I mean I suppose there is in all social work in a sense , that if you go in to look at a family and , and you 're trying to assess you know whether the children should be taken into care , well you 're exercising a a sort of statutory erm er sort of responsibility , and as far as the clients are concerned , er if you , like that can sort of get in the way of er er a more human sort of relationship if you see what I mean , because |
| 4 | There was a row of bright enamel saucepans , an Italian coffee pot and two or three painted ceramic jars on the shelves ; Melissa bent down to peek into a cupboard and saw an array of packets and tinned foods and several types of pasta in glass jars . |
| 5 | On the day of his first marriage , his wife went off to perform in a matinée and Burton listened to the International match . |
| 6 | By week 3 he was nodding off to sleep in an armchair as soon as he had finished dinner . |
| 7 | John Howard Griffin made himself up to look like a negro and passed himself off as one in the southern USA for his book Black Like Me . |
| 8 | Turn over then and go back to sleep for an hour and thought oh I 've got ta get up now the dog 's whining to go out , then we get up then when the dog starts whining to go out . |
| 9 | ‘ I moved out to stay in a hotel and I think Tracie preferred it that way . |
| 10 | When the pressure is on to respond to an event after it happens , the client will then judge your professional competence . |
| 11 | Having travelled the ‘ road from revolutionary elitism to proletarian populism ’ , James ' American sojourn was about to come to an end but , before it did , he would write ‘ Mariners , Renegades and Castaways ’ in which he expressed his poetic view of the world through an interpretation of the works of Herman Melville . |
| 12 | ‘ We are about to stand into an ocean where no ship has ever sailed before , ’ Magellan is said to have cried ( though it has to be reiterated that there is no hard evidence that he dit so ) . |
| 13 | They would probably knock her insides about to fit in a jacuzzi or the like , not to mention all-night parties and vulgar guests filling every room . |
| 14 | You can tell if you are about to walk into a wall or another person . |
| 15 | ‘ She was just about to leave in a limousine and there were a lot of journalists about . |
| 16 | I 'm about to change into a monster and terrorize the little people in the garden . |
| 17 | ‘ I like to get pictures as if the horse is about to blink or breathe , the nostrils about to expand or contract , the legs about to break into a trot or canter . ’ |