Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 So I strode up there to have this man-to-man chat with Nick .
2 Eventually she simmered down sufficiently to complete a few small office jobs , and she had just checked the answering machine when the sound of voices floated through the open front entrance .
3 Eddie Frizzell , chief executive of the Scottish Prison Service , said yesterday he wished once again to make it clear that no discussions had taken place between himself and senior colleagues , or any private sector contractor , on the possibility of managing and funding a private prison in Scotland .
4 But perhaps also we tend even more to suppress recognition of sexual elements in the child 's feeling for us — or in our feeling for the child .
5 Also too often they broke away only to lose the initiative by letting the cockney donkeys get back .
6 Now he did n't actually to begin with , he did n't pick up the concept of counting in tens .
7 Think of the toddler learning to walk and how often he falls down only to pick himself up and try again .
8 And local Labour leader John Tompkins called it a scandal , adding : ‘ If the house is vacant , it should be used for the people here who have nowhere else to go . ’
9 A competent woman officer told me first , then I went down alone to see Barbara .
10 Then I came back here to change , before I joined my wife at a dinner party .
11 And then I decided very reluctantly to have an excavator and for three and a half days it worked down there and erm created a sort of Black Hole Calcutta and put all the stuff it had taken out , it spewed around so that it , there was just mud and no water .
12 He did , and I heard him say , ‘ Well , at least I lived long enough to meet you , love . ’
13 Then she came down here to tell my mum .
14 So instead you set out either to strengthen your position or to undermine his .
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