Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 2 | Did he ever come not merely to see as a possibility but actually to possess a conviction of what can be called the benign indifference of the universe ? |
| 3 | While fitting the rear offside wheel back on to Miss Clinton 's car , Jenny 's daddy had been called away suddenly to see to a tractor that had broken down on Farmer Pullen 's farm . |
| 4 | Unless you are fortunate enough to work for a company that recognises this need , there are basically two options available for that initial promotion . |
| 5 | I mean , I knew from my own experience that carers were not getting the help , they were not getting the back-up , so any sort of really good telephone numbers I had laid my hands on got sort of written away in a wee book , and I was lucky enough to come across an association that actually backed up carers and actually were willing to sort of , put their life on the line and say to me , yes , you have got rights and you need support and we are here to give you that support . |
| 6 | This is perverse dance floor music — miles better to hear in a club than 90 per cent of those insipid remixes and cover versions — but sadly it is only in the ‘ elite ’ establishments that you will hear this at the decibel level that it demands . |
| 7 | This is perverse dance floor music — miles better to hear in a club than 90 per cent of those insipid remixes and cover versions — but sadly it is only in the ‘ elite ’ establishments that you will hear this at the decibel level that it demands . |
| 8 | ‘ I cared only to escape from a life that was irksome and narrow , ’ said Taliesin , drinking his wine and reclining in the chair rather negligently . |
| 9 | She left his office quietly , too raw to make a scene and attract attention , wanting only to crawl into a corner and hide . |
| 10 | Folded up , the 750 was only 7in deep , 30in high and 29in long — compact enough to lean against a wall while jobs were in progress , and not too heavy to hang at about shoulder height when stored away . |
| 11 | It is not enough to think of a murder and who committed it and why what is not immediately obvious , and then to take some setting that seems interesting and simply introduce chunks of description from time to time . |
| 12 | ‘ He forgot about his bleeding arm long enough to get on a horse and run , ’ fitzAlan said grimly , retrieving his cloak and swiftly re-tying the pack . |
| 13 | Such a dictionary is unlikely to appeal to a member of the general public wishing only to check on a word when solving a crossword or playing Scrabble . |
| 14 | But for the butcher , baker , DIY shop , holiday company or plumber , the remedy seems to be to go to another trader next time , and write this disappointment or disaster down to experience , unless it is bad enough to take to a lawyer or the Small Claims Court . |
| 15 | ‘ The Vetch ’ is a really good restaurant ; so good , I ca n't afford to eat there , but I have played there on occasions and most of the staff know me well enough to stop for a drink and a chat . |
| 16 | In those days the infant Crocker had run up paths lightly and gleefully to bang on a knocker or ring a bell and , elated with an enormous naughtiness , hidden behind a hedge to see the angry householder erupt and curse . |
| 17 | It is possible to book alarm calls , make transferred charge calls , telephone for travel information , for the time , the weather , or just to listen to a story or some music ! |
| 18 | Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all . |
| 19 | You 're outrageous you are , you 've got to have the gift of the gab in the first place , that 's just to walk into a shop or office and , my girlfriend 's think that 's what chain |
| 20 | Make it a habit always to go to a lecture or a meeting with a pen and paper and take notes . |
| 21 | If there is still more to fit into a week than is humanly possible , do what a doctor advised me to do . |
| 22 | The help of a skilled adult , who can stand back and observe and who is ready also to join with a child as he plays , to . |
| 23 | Move on now to look at an area that 's er not frequently er does n't impinge a great deal on life in this country but it certainly does for travellers and for many people in the developing world . |
| 24 | Instead of choosing one road or another , like Hercules at the crossroads — sin or virtue , company or solitude , capitalism or collectivism — as ancient religions and modern dogmas have sometimes demanded , it invites one rather to settle into a questioning and critical acceptance of things as they are . |
| 25 | It is sufficient here to treat as a futures or option contract any contract whose terms contemplate future performance and which is made on or under the rules of a market cleared by a clearing house . |
| 26 | This occurs where two motorists are held to be equally to blame for a collision and the plaintiff is injured . |
| 27 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 28 | This interpretation was kind to Edward , because it was more normal even then to demand of a king that he produce an heir , and Edward 's childlessness unloosed on his luckless kingdom the horrors of 1066 . |
| 29 | And what happens is that if an embryo has the single gene for being male , it happens to have a white chromosome not surprisingly , it turns on thousands of other genes that then make the embryo into a male , but , but that single gene has to be there to act as a switch and that 's that gene is also present in alligators and crocodiles so the point I 'm making is it is just wrong to say that , that all these discoveries about genetics cut no ice with human evolution , because human things can not be influenced by single genes . |
| 30 | Every movement within a form teaches him to defend by blocking or manoeuvring and then to attack with a strike or a kick . |