Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staring at him worriedly , she slowly sank down to sit on the edge of the bed . |
| 2 | When it 's just a few minutes from the face , the thick cloud filling the valley gently wells up to lock in the cold . |
| 3 | She only learnt how to put on a bandage last month . ’ |
| 4 | Is n't it bad enough going out to work as a skivvy in someone 's shop without dressing as a skivvy at home . ’ |
| 5 | Much of this activity was carried out by special commissions especially set up to cope with the flood of material that was uncovered . |
| 6 | You have already defined what the worry is , so go on to look at the cause , list different possibilities for dealing with the cause and then decide on the action which seems most likely to be effective . |
| 7 | But we need not only to learn how to look at the world with the eyes of a Mexican Indian — and I hardly think that Lawrence succeeded — and we certainly can not afford to stop there . |
| 8 | Bob said : ‘ We have to generate enough income to pay for our able-bodied staff , our overheads and have enough left over to contribute to the cost of employing disabled people . |
| 9 | Their refusal to do so had more to do with a laager mentality than with calculations that by spinning out the conflict they could buy time to mop up more territory . |
| 10 | But mistaken loan decisions or pricing policies swiftly come home to roost in an organisation with a balance sheet of only a few hundred million . |
| 11 | The club have chartered a special flight from Manchester to Bologna and over 100 fans hare already booked up to travel with the official party . |
| 12 | the external design is nevertheless made everywhere to result from the necessities of the interior : the positions of the windows are decided not so much with regard to external effect , as with reference to the rooms they light ; and even the heights of stories will be found to vary in parts to suit internal convenience . |
| 13 | It required those LEAs who had not already done so to submit to the Secretaries of State , by the end of the year , information about their plans for making their schools comprehensive . |
| 14 | Last week , parliament finally decided not to vote on the bill , effectively putting off the decision until after parliamentary elections in the autumn — and perhaps forever . |
| 15 | It is the Commission , for example , which quite overtly decided not to intervene in the decision to build a road through Twyford Down in Hampshire , but which apparently will continue to challenge the plans for an East London river crossing at Oxleas Wood , as well as proposals by British Petroleum for a gas terminal at Falkirk . |
| 16 | No drive , no ambition ; the team was just turning up to go through the motions ; and behind the scenes , lots of devious insider stuff . ’ |
| 17 | The father was just moving round to sit at the head of the table when the mother came sweeping out of the kitchen carrying a huge plate piled high with eggs and sausages and bacon and tomatoes . |
| 18 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 19 | ‘ It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour . |
| 20 | Other retailers already signed up to move into the centre are Dixon Sports , Strand Cards , H Samuel , C&J Clark and Dorothy Perkins . |
| 21 | ‘ Do we need some help with our washing ? ’ , all the while desperately trying not to look at the forbidden sight of father naked in the bath . |
| 22 | As the children grow older and see other pictures , they will all too soon learn how to draw in the conventional manner . |
| 23 | DIPLOMATIC niceties have been exploited to the utmost during the continuing occupation by would-be East German emigrants of the West German embassy in Prague , where a West German diplomat yesterday intervened dramatically to add to the number of new arrivals inside . |
| 24 | Many thousands arrived by rail and road and local Kidderminster car-parks were specially opened up to cope with the volume of visitors . |
| 25 | There were reminders in every cupboard and corner of how much she was missing Charles and how worried she was about this expedition to a country she knew nothing about and which she hardly knew where to find on a map . |
| 26 | After entering I found it came from a little sister of those drowned Children , that was singing to a bundle of clouts , rudely put together to look like a Doll , which she held in her arms . |
| 27 | Ruether , who is by training a historian , and politically of left-wing convictions , quickly comes simply to embark on a description of certain threads which she believes to have run through history . |
| 28 | ‘ Unfortunately , being female does n't necessarily mean that I instinctively know how to behave as a mother . |
| 29 | What most Directors of Social Services are worried about is that the group of children that we 're now finding in children 's homes , are so disturbed , because of their past family backgrounds er and so , so problematic er with their behaviour , er that they 're now concerned to make sure that the children 's homes of the future are properly geared up to deal with the very difficult group of children . |
| 30 | But when the proof comes it also turns out to rest on the assumption that it is already true . |