Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A daughter ( or more rarely a son ) who has never left the parental home , or who has returned after widowhood or divorce to stay on indefinitely to care for an elderly parent or parents , does not make this choice automatically . |
| 2 | He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster . |
| 3 | The breed probably paid the penalty of being too lightweight and failing to fatten well enough to meet farmers ’ demands for beef from their dairy herds . |
| 4 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 5 | ‘ And start to think how best to welcome fifteen enemy ships who want to offload an army . ’ |
| 6 | She hated excessive make-up and had applied just enough to emphasize her striking looks . |
| 7 | ‘ I am on my way to take up a situation as companion and had to put up here to catch the cross stage tomorrow . ’ |
| 8 | Others had scrambled across the field , dodging shellbursts , and had taken off only to forget where they were supposed to be going . |
| 9 | Perhaps he had discovered a seam — did you have a seam of garnet ? — and had come back secretly to exploit it , and … |
| 10 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
| 11 | She felt bubbly with fun , and had to try hard not to let it show too much . |
| 12 | Her parents had been very aware of the problems of sibling rivalry when the younger child was born and had tried very appropriately to help Mary accept the situation . |
| 13 | The ethos of the '70s would leave everybody in equally drab council estates ; denied the chance that high quality schools used to offer ; offered ‘ permissiveness ’ in place of standards and values ; and left to quarrel over how to divide an ever- diminishing cake . |
| 14 | The community-centre members are conscious of the need for good relationships with their neighbours , and have bent over backwards to accommodate Muriel . |
| 15 | Scarlet had been willing to admit the truth of her words but had ceased too soon to concentrate , her mind already elsewhere as she wondered whether , if she could express herself differently and more coherently , her therapist might not have another , and a clearer , image of her . |