Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter relax annoyingly when not in use and tend to slide out of place . |
| 2 | There is often a large sag in the line-up of boards , because although the people at either end are confident that they are not over the line , the people in the middle can not judge their approach precisely and tend to hold back in caution . |
| 3 | planaria tend to shun the light and move towards the dark , they are sensitive to touch and keep the undersides of their body in contact with solid objects , move towards food , and tend to move upstream in water currents . |
| 4 | He shook hands with scores of clerks , cooks and cleaners who had overcome feelings of revulsion and fear to turn up for work after the brutal and ghastly murder of their friend and colleague , who had been chained to a 1,000lb bomb . |
| 5 | Yet , to get to Angela 's home for her lesson , she would walk uphill with her 18-month baby on her back and manage to breathe perfectly in spite of the exertion . |
| 6 | Do more circuit planning flights with the last five hundred feet of the altimeter covered and try to guess ahead of time what the height and position will be ( not in feet , but in terms of very high , about right , or rather low ) . |
| 7 | They rush from the water , fling themselves down on the beach and proceed to roll around in agony , screaming and frothing at the mouth . |
| 8 | Following preliminary interviews , the analysts will be able to construct models and attempt to find out in outline the information needs of the organisation . |
| 9 | The Alexander Technique , which is a way of allowing the body and mind to work together in order to avoid muscular tension , has constantly helped me to be calmer in stressful situations . |
| 10 | Two weeks later Colonel Lane-Fox ( later Pitt-Rivers ) , a pioneer of scientific archaeology , spoke of ‘ the evolution of culture ’ : some kind of Darwinism entered into all kinds of explanations , as tends to happen with highly effective theories which get extended far beyond their sphere and come to function almost as metaphor . |
| 11 | The birds spend much of their day foraging in dense , varied vegetation and return to roost together at dusk . |
| 12 | So , first time through you take the ‘ first time bar ’ ( ie. bar 8 ) and return to start back at bar 1 again . |
| 13 | And , I mean I fully sympathize with the gentleman , but I feel his lawyer should explain this to him , and also I feel , why should he pay such a extortionate rate of poll tax and have to pay again for grass cut and street swept ? |
| 14 | Another method of learning to hover with the model facing you is to place it on the ground in this attitude and learn to fly again from scratch . |
| 15 | The children can also become antagonistic towards the parents and refuse to get out of bed or to go to the lavatory . |
| 16 | We shall not feel obliged to fill silences with words but learn to speak out of silence . |