Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MISS World flew back to her Russian homeland yesterday to face up to profiteers trying to cash in on her success . |
| 2 | LABOUR leader John Smith launched a think-tank yesterday to come up with ideas for putting the party into power at the next Election . |
| 3 | Then she rang Mrs Chalk , who agreed to curtail her afternoon off to dash back to Armscott , ready to pass on the news if Charles called home first . |
| 4 | My resolve not to go back into education hardened , if anything , rather than softened , as I became more and more determined that the sacrifice I had made was not going to be in vain . |
| 5 | The narrator-hero of Kingsley Amis 's The Green Man ( 1969 ) , in most respects an ordinary chap , has to be persuaded by his wife even to drop in for family meals . |
| 6 | No government programme , says Mr Petersmeyer , can persuade a teenager not to drop out of school , or not to try drugs . |
| 7 | Three shifts are operating flat out to keep up with demand . |
| 8 | Working flat out to keep up with demand , bales of yarn are stacked ready for the next load by Despatch Foreman , Peter McCall . |
| 9 | A company which makes silk ties for the Buckingham Palace gift shop is working flat out to keep up with demand . |
| 10 | EG Vinnie throwing a scotch egg at him and Bobby Davison getting pissed and falling asleep in the restaureant only to wake up with flu and miss loads of games ( the papers said it was a recurrance of his knee injury ) ! |
| 11 | On the eve of the summit the exiled Amir of Kuwait , Sheikh Jabir al Ahmed al Jabir as Sabah , had appealed to Bush and Gorbachev to adopt " decisive measures " to end the Iraqi occupation of his country , while Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had announced that he would not pull out of Kuwait under any circumstances , warned the superpowers not to interfere in Arab affairs , and urged the Soviet Union not to give in to US demands . |
| 12 | Although Mexico was not an OPEC member in November 1984 it cut exports in line with OPEC reductions to help maintain prices and has generally taken care not to step out of line , though it has stated that it would act unilaterally to defend its market position . |
| 13 | So what you must do , and it is not easy , is to create a clown-like detective hero who has a core of toughness , of shrewdness even , which will allow him in the end plausibly to come out on top . |
| 14 | ‘ Once Stalin made me dance the Gopak , squat down on my haunches and kick out my heels , ’ writes Khrushchev , an image hard to call up in view of his shape , but — ‘ When Stalin says ‘ Dance ’ , a wise man dances , ’ added the peasant proverb-spinner in his accustomed vein . |
| 15 | He replied that it appeared that there was a trust on the coheir too to make over to Seia the quarter which he had in the gardens . |
| 16 | The YF-22 's most useful quality is its ability not to show up on radar , including radars of a sensitivity not yet invented . |
| 17 | You must get the lecturer 's permission to record and use the recording and it 's a good idea too to find out in advance what aids will be used . |
| 18 | The man so often pilloried for fouling up on the big occasion was determined to make no mistake this time , racing to the front immediately to keep out of trouble and defying his opponents to get past . |
| 19 | And yet a powerful fire must have started so quickly it gave poor Cosmas no time even to get out of bed . ’ |