Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv prt] [to-vb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed .
2 In my early career , I set out to meet the demands of my peers and fulfil the necessary qualifications for assessment as a ‘ real polis ’ ; although there were few opportunities to flirt with any real forms of marginality !
3 You build up the fire while I go out to milk the cows .
4 You walk on to climb the slopes of Bulkeley Hill from where you head for the village of Bickerton and on the heathland of Bickerton Hill .
5 no every time you go out to feed the birds you should take a bucket out
6 ‘ If one of us finds the Grimoire , we call out to let the others know , then bring it back here to this office , ’ Donna suggested .
7 We 'll see them when we come back to collect the others .
8 They set out to create the conditions where two hydrogen nuclei ( ‘ protons ’ ) could get close to each other , collide and join to make a nucleus of helium .
9 They set out to discover the names and fiefs of all lords and knights resident within the county , their liege lords , and the services each owed to the count .
10 At Tesco 's sorry but the man , men they get in to clean the tops of the ovens are contractors
11 In this compartment , in this carriage , on this train , it does not happen and they move on to check the papers of the woman and her daughter .
12 Slim-line tension rods , which are telescopic , are used to carry net curtains neatly without any fixing brackets , but they can only be used within a window reveal as they spring out to grip the sides .
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