Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he could not sit patiently and wait for the next train , in an hour 's time . |
| 2 | The Waste was utterly still and save for the dark Tower in the centre utterly empty ; the birds which enlivened the forest avoided it , the morning sun , shining obliquely across it , lit the Tower down one side leaving the other in deepest shadow . |
| 3 | Jan says he has a good feeling about swindon and is hungry to do well and play in the premier league |
| 4 | The others will have to stay here and hope for the best . |
| 5 | Erm , I work in a project at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow , and one of the things , there 's young who experiment with drugs whether we like it or not , and I think it depends what drug i is available at that time , so we could sit here and go through the different periods of time . |
| 6 | The Euro Cities Conference was also important because it was the founding of that organisation formally and it was important to go there and say to the big monopoly that 's emerging it 's |
| 7 | The Euro Cities Conference was also important because it was the founding of that organisation formally and it was important to go there and say to the big monopoly that 's emerging between some of the Western European cities , the big six , Birmingham , Barcelona , Frankfurt , Rotterdam , Milan and Strasbourg , that they were n't gon na get it all their own way and they were n't going to monopolise those funds that were available for links with Eastern Europe . |
| 8 | Eventually orders came through confirming the worst : the Austrian cuirassiers were to stay there and fight to the last man . |
| 9 | It was somehow too much of an effort to lean forward and turn on the cold tap and besides , he wanted the heat . |
| 10 | Or the research could go anywhere and lead to the unexpected ! |
| 11 | ( b ) Both matrix and fibril may deform elastically and yield at the same strain . |