Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upshot of it is that the appellate court , where the matter is one of discretion , as this is of course , will not interfere with the discretion of the court below unless it considers that the court was plainly wrong or it has erred in principle , that it has taken into account something it should not have done or has failed to take into account something it should have done , and on that narrow basis I must proceed with this appeal . |
| 2 | Mr Ball gave details of the development of ECTA , and agreed to continue to look after Institute interests and to try to obtain uniformity . |
| 3 | HP has decided not to take Sun 's move on its Apollo base ( UX No 394 ) , lying down and has decided to retaliate in kind . |
| 4 | Racism seems to have become one of the most dangerous and distinctive aspects of contemporary football violence in comparison to earlier forms of juvenile disorder and has begun to spread to cricket too . |
| 5 | Live without doing wrong , and die hoping to go to heaven . ’ |
| 6 | In the earlier regime it was accepted that rules had to be general to some extent , and open to change to allow for adaptation to changing circumstances . |
| 7 | However , they demanded the creation of a national union of students and vowed to continue to fight for democracy . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought you 'd forgotten your coffee and had decided to go to bed instead , ’ he said , looking disapprovingly at her freshly done hair . |
| 9 | Lennox-Boyd had been in the post for five years and had asked to retire for family business reasons . |
| 10 | Before her accident the plaintiff wanted to be a conference organiser and had intended to go into hospitality management as a career . |
| 11 | After its financial disaster in 1720 the South Sea Company had pulled itself together and had tried to trade with South America as though nothing had happened . |
| 12 | Spiro was earning £13,000 a month but had begun to slip into debt . |
| 13 | Judges are receiving firearms training from police but have threatened to go on strike as promised protection has not materialised . |