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

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1 It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees .
2 When she went into the rest room she sat down for a minute while waiting for Peggy to come out of the lavatory .
3 Over time she has retained her ideological commitment , and the shortcomings as well as the successes of her government record are invoked by her as reasons to press on with the original strategy .
4 The not inconsiderable amount of time clients spend in hospital and campus services without supervision in part reflects the option for clients to wander off into the dormitories unnoticed .
5 Apart from the 4-SUBS , traffic levels meant there was little chance for stock to fall out of the bottom of the cascade .
6 The present ski development is unsafe for walkers to walk through towards the carriers as the skiers do not give way to each other let alone walkers .
7 ‘ If I did wait for Garry to come back into the fold , what would you be doing ? ’
8 They thought it normal for tea to come out of the fridge or the oven in a tinfoil box with a peel-back lid , although they did remember for weeks afterwards Lucy 's occasional cordon-bleu phases , when the house had been filled with heart-warming smells , and different kinds of food had appeared out of saucepans on top of the oven , and other dishes inside it .
9 He had n't expected a trip down to his daughter 's for lunch to end up in the middle of Exmoor .
10 It will take years for Albania to catch up with the standards of medicine in other European countries but not all the news is negative .
11 Er I would , I would echo that , that we feel that they money has been paid in for work or services done by the employer and by the er fund members themselves have contributed and I do n't think it belongs to either of those parties in any more , it 's held by the trustees to pay pensions , if for nothing it 's been put there just to pay pensions , it 's not a piggy bank for er for companies to draw out with the with their tame er trustees allowing it , it it 's money the trustees hold in in trust and I believe that 's the law at the moment and er I I think we would like to see that confirmed in any new law .
12 It 's okay for Australians to bang on about the risks they get a summer .
13 Then they went into the lead , only for Peterborough to come back with a late equaliser .
14 And if that was the case , then the idea for Artemis to move up to a horse must surely have sprung from him .
15 Even in England , half-inch diameter hail stones are not unknown , and these will smash canopies and ruin the surfaces , causing very expensive damage and making it a matter of luck to get out of the area and down safely .
16 Erm , er , now of course to get back to the ambulance erm if somebody comes out of an epileptic fit and goes immediately back into another one , then you must call an ambulance , it takes so much from the person , it takes so much energy that the person ca n't possible go into one fit after another , erm without showing some affects and therefore you would have to get them to hospital , if you do n't and they have two or three fits one after another they can die , so they must go to hospital .
17 But if you ask him to spare a couple of hours to help out at a St John Ambulance fund-raising activity or a garden fête for the church roof repair fund , he might find that a worthwhile thing to do .
18 But you must you must have been asked dozens of times to go back into the pop concert field ?
19 ‘ Fifty to win is a lot of money to lay out on an untried filly . ’
20 As Glisseuse emerged from the Swale channel at the Queenborough end , she was picked up by Vigilant and followed to the upper reaches of the Medway while Venturous made all speed round the outside of Sheppey to catch up on the operation which was now well under control .
21 When the dip of the beds is fairly steep towards the sea , there is a tendency for blocks of rock to break off at the joint planes , usually at right angles to the bedding , so that the cliff profile tends to be dominated by the dip of the beds .
22 GRAHAM Gooch will have plenty of shoulders to lean on during the tour of India .
23 Nurse Rose had to exercise all her powers of concentration to sort out from the mumblings and digressions exactly what Mrs. Fanshawe wanted to say .
24 Those who have worked with him during the time that he has been in his present post have come to admire the hard work , courage and assiduity with which he has pursued the object of bringing the parties within the island of Ireland to sit down with the British Government and resolve their differences .
25 It can also provide them with a conceptual context within which to work , in the form of hypotheses to test out in the conditions of their particular classrooms .
26 Conscience is a function of the ego ideal , and is critical of failure to live up to the ego ideal .
27 It always feels like an admission of failure to come back from the Continent and have nothing to show for it .
28 And er sometimes it takes a bit of courage to walk over to the tap when everybody 's saying there 'll be no water , and for you to turn that tap on .
29 You 'll need plenty of courage to face up to the fact that trouble is about to strike and then to deter whoever is behind it .
30 Often , when I was cycling through the camp after coming off duty , I would spy Thursby in the distance beavering along , head down against the gale , full of eagerness to get back on the job and spot any mistakes we had made during his absence .
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