Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'd just like to sort of This is a This is not very clear on here but I would just like to bring out This is an accident which happened down in Kent about two years ago now . |
| 2 | We have n't set up a company , we 're just going to work on each other 's customer base and then take the value proposition to the market . |
| 3 | Thorkell 's expulsion belongs to the ambivalent relations between Cnut and some of his powerful Scandinavian followers discussed more fully in Chapter 5 , and may reflect considerable political difficulties , possibly linked to friction with some East Anglian and Fenland churches around this time . |
| 4 | Rag mats , heavy oak furniture too big for the small space , a gas mantle dangerously converted to electricity with many a swathe of woven purplish flex , provided the essentials without achieving either beauty or convenience . |
| 5 | Yeah but housewives do n't usually go to sleep at this time in the afternoon . |
| 6 | Major 's partner in crime was later stabbed to death during another raid . |
| 7 | It can also lead to narrowness in that staff may have technical and specialist information in a single field but little concern or understanding about the work of other departments . |
| 8 | You can both go to hell for all I care , ’ Sarella wondered how it was they 'd managed to get off the subject of the telephone call so quickly . |
| 9 | Emmie thought she could probably go to sleep in less time than anyone else in the world . |
| 10 | At all times one is aware that the artist is also a composer — the conviction with which she untangles some of the more complicated , almost obscure pieces , has an unquestionable authority ( the enormous B flat minor Fugue from Book Two instantly comes to mind in this connection ) , whilst the famous pieces are often presented in a totally different manner — the A minor Prelude and Fugue ( Book One ) will surprise many as the Prelude is fearful and serious ( rather than light with the usual staccato touches ) , whilst the Fugue has clipped articulation at the end of each subject entry . |
| 11 | In Howard 's time , the main problem in respect of remuneration was that the gaoler was expected to generate his own income , by what often amounted to extortion from those in his charge or their family and friends . |
| 12 | There was no hint of any emotion even distantly related to nervousness in those dark , intelligent , ruthless eyes . |
| 13 | They 're really going to town on these pavements are n't they ? |
| 14 | Right , well please make sure this time you really go to work on those as well , now we 've got thirty three to have have n't we , now just let's have a look at that and make sure that you |
| 15 | Now that even MFI does its own successful matt black range , can they really admit to knowledge of such a thing ? |
| 16 | Inevitably oversimplifying , I would summarize what I have tried to say by suggesting that the schooling of science has produced three kinds of people , whose interrelations have up till now led to opposition to any attempts to realize the emancipatory potential Carlile saw . |
| 17 | The young person who , unfortunately , reaches the age of 16 after July 2 has now to return to school for another year and will be almost 17 years of age whenever they leave . |
| 18 | The terrier , a Jack Russell , was always a hunting animal , working rough ground and even going to ground in those situations where it could safely get down into a fox earth or a drainpipe . |
| 19 | Though modern empirical experimental science is one of the more obvious products of that movement , the Society was not narrowly restricted to science in any modern sense . |
| 20 | The dividend may be expressed as a fixed percentage of the nominal or paid up value of the shares , or may even extend to participation in any dividends declared over and above that fixed amount . |
| 21 | Have to think about it but the name that immediately springs to mind for most of them is Russell Grant . |
| 22 | While some , indeed most , planned towns established themselves successfully , others proved completely abortive , never came to life at all despite all the activity of the planners , including the king himself . |
| 23 | Dutch-based Philips argues that a strong consumer electronics sector is inextricably tied to success in all the rest of electronics , which remains a sector vital to a healthy modern economy . |
| 24 | THE Kama Sutra , for 2,000 years the Lover 's lexicon , is beautifully brought to life in this new video.It is artistic , tasteful yet powerfully erotic . |
| 25 | Children who never went to school at all would pick up quite a lot of immediately useful knowledge ; from television and radio , moreover , they might acquire quite a lot of not obviously useful , relatively esoteric bits of information , about history , for example , or natural history . |
| 26 | he 's lucky , definitely come to bed with that . |
| 27 | She hated anything deceitful or dishonest and would never listen to tittle-tattle about another girl behind her back . |