Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The insight that we are what we keep secret about ourselves works out here to mean that we are our guilty secrets . |
| 2 | One or both of them got up early to make break&st in good time . |
| 3 | Erm the way I understand the situation is Tony 's happy with er his arrangement and that the clubs have agreed and I think it 's just a matter of them going back now to report back to their President the Italian people and then the way I see it he 'll he 'll go after the er game for a medical and you know there should n't be any problems there . |
| 4 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |
| 5 | The very aromatic nature of the Arbanne suggests it might well be an ancient variant of the Chardonnay Blanc Musque or , possibly , the Muscadelle of Bordeaux , both of which ripen early enough to survive in the southern extremities of Champagne . |
| 6 | He attracts ten million-plus television audiences , but how much longer will they put up with him doing just enough to beat men who have have gone beyond their ‘ sell-by ’ date ? |
| 7 | It had a number of clauses in it designed quite properly to protect the company , but there was n't one , not one , that was relevant to my private life . |
| 8 | They insisted on me going up there to see this chap who was supposed to have proof of a fiddle being carried out by a bunch of telephone operators at one particular exchange . |
| 9 | If a wheel starts to spin , the brake attached to it squeezes just enough to keep it in check while the engine throttles back . |
| 10 | Yet as the war dragged on it served not only to increase the regime 's unpopularity but also to give new leverage to the forces of opposition . |
| 11 | By early 1981 our support had fallen to below 30 per cent and as the months went by it plummeted even further to reach 23 per cent at the end of the year . |