Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organise your affairs so as to get to the patient quickly , or decide not to go to the patient and use routinely the 999 service , but do have a practice policy . |
| 2 | The essence of both offences would be the intrinsic quality of the driving and its deviation from the proper standard , not the consequences which happen to result or happen not to result in a particular case . |
| 3 | The housewife has to get the washing there in the first place , she has to unload it , sort it , sit and watch it wash and dry ( or dash out to shop in the interim ) and then pack it all up again . |
| 4 | He often worked in a friend 's studio , and took his meals at Rosalie 's where he peeled potatoes or washed up to pay for the meals . |
| 5 | Quinn had watched him from across the street , tending his exterior fruit-display or disappearing inside to attend to a customer . |
| 6 | Illustrations and photographs can be maximised to full screen size if required , or set up to load as a full screen image every time instead of just half screen . |
| 7 | I take my jacket off again and sit down to look through the War files … |
| 8 | Under ordinary circumstances , Nurse Goodman would probably not have given permission but ‘ the Major ’ , as he had become known , was such a mystery that she was glad to feel that at least somebody knew of his fate and cared enough to come to the hospital to see how he was getting on . |
| 9 | If you can scrape together a few hits and make enough to retire to a little place in the suburbs , you 've made the most of the opportunity . |
| 10 | He begins by presenting the information content of several protein families and goes on to deal with a variety of subjects , such as the evolution of the genetic code , neurobiology , the primaeval soup , black holes and cosmology . |
| 11 | Alice smiled and nodded , and got up to stand at the window , looking out . |
| 12 | God damn Humber , I thought , and got up to write on the charts on the bed-table . |
| 13 | The sinewy elegance of these figures is unusual , and has perhaps to do with the fact that the Aeginetan sculptors are recorded as preeminent in bronze . |
| 14 | When the counsellor faces this situation it is often more appropriate to leave the subject of drinking , and to try instead to focus on the nature of the social distress that the individuals are experiencing . |
| 15 | He got in alongside her , slammed the door , and moved forward to speak to the driver . |
| 16 | She squared herself , and moved along to look into the nearest of the rooms . |
| 17 | Closely-related snow buntings Plectrophenax nivalis winter in small flocks where the snow is thinnest on the southern tundra , and fly northward to breed on the high arctic tundra in summer , when snow still plentiful on the ground ( Pattie , 1972 , 1977 ) . |
| 18 | The BMC immediately leapt on the white chargers they keep permanently tied up outside Crawford House in Manchester and thundered southward to deal with the problem once it arose . |
| 19 | After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human . |
| 20 | As soon as the cold fingers let go for a moment , I pulled my hand quickly back , put a pile of books in front of the broken window , and tried not to listen to the desperate cries outside . |
| 21 | Luce made a sweeping gesture with one arm and tried not to wince at the pain . |
| 22 | Guy leaned back against the hut door , dragging the cold night air into his lungs , and tried not to think of the anguish in Isabel 's white face , of the tears drowning her luminous grey eyes . |
| 23 | Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room . |
| 24 | It was a new and very special experience to be treated as a granny , excluded from the kitchen , given a sherry before the meal and told not to help with the serving up . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes ! ’ he said , the word jerked out of him furiously , and twisted away to hide from the malicious smile he dreaded . |
| 26 | The seven year old spoke for the first time and darted away to return with the roll of foil . |
| 27 | Gradually other women finished the insides of their houses and came outside to work in the sunlight . |
| 28 | The Museum of Modern Art , 30 Pembroke Street , from January 24 to March 28 is reviewing the opus of that doyen of American minimalist and conceptual art , Sol Le Witt , presenting a concise historical survey of his career from 1963 to the present rooted in the Bauhaus , and fruiting so to speak in the fashion and perfume house of Nina Ricci ( sponsors of this show ) for which he has designed packaging for the manly fragrance Ricci Club . |
| 29 | I draw parallel with the door and crane forward to see into the room . |
| 30 | Remove and spread out to dry on a rack in an airy place ; if not thoroughly dry , it becomes mouldy later — then store in airtight containers between greaseproof paper . |