Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For trimming , allow enough braid to go round the pelmet outline , or fringing for the bottom line of pelmet only . |
| 2 | Others merely want to look at the engine . |
| 3 | I , I only want to mention about the swimming pool and swimming for pensioners and there ever such a lot of people go swimming . |
| 4 | I only want to say through the Voice : I am truly grateful to them all , and God bless them all . |
| 5 | It 's true that the show has to go on but if such behaviour caught on I 'd be bound to go on and say , ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , so-and-so is n't coming ’ because they not only want to appear on the show , they want to produce it as well ! ’ |
| 6 | Some hemiplegic patients are incontinent , either because they have poor sensation and can not feel when the bladder or bowel needs to be emptied , or because they do not pay attention and so forget to go to the toilet , or ask to be taken . |
| 7 | The arguments given above when taken together seem to lead to a contradiction . |
| 8 | Quite often when a pair have shown all the signs of wanting to breed in the community aquarium and they are then moved into a breeding tank , they suddenly seem to go off the idea , Their new home is strange to them , and the male will want to establish his territory , move the decor , and generally prepare the tank to his satisfaction . |
| 9 | Some women who have always had a career only get to think about the need for closer relationships after that finishes . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm promising you a gracious occasion , so try to behave with a bit of savoir faire . |
| 11 | He may consider it his duty to practise non-cooperation and civil disobedience , but he must always be on his guard against acts of violence which only serve to militate against the success of his actions . |
| 12 | And running under a certain island which is called Clauda , we had much work to come by the boat : which when they had taken up , they used helps , undergirding the ship ; and , fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands , struck sail , and so were driven . ’ |
| 13 | So that 's really you literally only have to listen to the phone call and turn up . |
| 14 | But look at it this way ; if we give them the exclusive we only have to go on the merry-go-round once . |
| 15 | ‘ In that case , ’ he said blandly , ‘ we only have to worry about the guard outside my door . ’ |
| 16 | You only have to look at a prole in this book and it rolls over to have its tummy tickled . |
| 17 | Have you ever said , ‘ I think I was meant to be big ’ or ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2 lbs ( 0.9kg ) ’ or ‘ I ca n't diet ’ ? |
| 18 | ‘ I was a big baby — I 'm obviously meant to be this size ’ , ‘ all my family are big ’ , ‘ I 've tried every diet , they just do n't seem to work for me ’ , ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2lbs ( 0.9kg ) ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You only have to look at a picture of him when he resigned and compare it with one from six months beforehand . |
| 20 | ‘ I know that , ’ Candy returned ruefully , ‘ and it 's always been the bane of my life that you can eat your way through a tuckshop without gaining a pound while I only have to look at a picture of a cream cake to make the scales groan . ’ |
| 21 | - Elizabeth Rex , chairman of the Harwich Conservative Association ‘ You only have to look at the way we have annoyed the Establishment and the professions to gauge the success of our populist policies . ’ |
| 22 | You only have to look at the press and television to see how impatient many in our society are . |
| 23 | Murder mysteries are something of a British tradition — you only have to look at the popularity of thriller novels and TV ‘ whodunits ? ’ , for example . |
| 24 | We only have to look at the interest being shown , especially in public sector institutions , in recruiting their students from a wide social background . |
| 25 | You only have to look at the balance sheet its treasurer John Lister will present to its annual meeting in December , a million pounds sitting on reserve . |
| 26 | You only have to look at the unemployment amongst married women who would like to be teachers . |
| 27 | You only have to look at the number of visitors going to places such as Nepal er to see the increase there , to see how important this connection be . |
| 28 | ‘ You only have to look at the number of players with top clubs in the present squad — Arsenal 's Steve Morrow is another example — and it 's obvious there 's hope for the future . |
| 29 | Inevitably there will be much improved functionality , and more features — you only have to look at the difference between DOS 4.01 and DOS 5 to see that . |
| 30 | The magnetic field strength is given again by eqn ( 3.27 ) ; we only need to substitute for the current In + Ip where the subscripts n and p refer to negative and positive particles respectively . |