Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb base] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I called the local council who told me the wasps were best left until the end of the season when they would follow their queen and find somewhere else to live . |
| 2 | Then after 24 days , the young break holes in the skin and swim swiftly away to seek safe hiding places . |
| 3 | Still floppy from giggling they were careful to avoid catching each other 's eye , but there was warmth and repose enough there to set against the hardness of the day 's demands . |
| 4 | After garment has been blocked to size , insert a metal welt bar or thin , clean piece of wood through the hem and pull firmly downwards to draw stitches of mock rib closer together . |
| 5 | After garment has been blocked to size , insert a metal welt bar or thin , clean piece of wood through the hem and pull firmly downwards to draw stitches of mock rib closer together . |
| 6 | After garment has been blocked to size , insert a metal welt bar or thin , clean piece of wood through the hem and pull firmly downwards to draw stitches of mock rib closer together . |
| 7 | What Tolkien wanted to concentrate on , obviously , was death : more precisely perhaps on why people love this world and want so strongly to stay in it when it is an inescapable part of their nature ‘ to die and go we know not where ’ . |
| 8 | If we can reduce our weight to around that of our youth and eat well enough to give us the energy to work and live our lives to the full , we will all benefit . |
| 9 | Because the total numbers of animals on islands tend to be small , large predators in general find it impossible to exist at all — except , of course , for creatures such as seals and sealions , which feed at sea and come ashore only to breed or bask . |