Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says everyone 's done so well to raise a quarter of a million pounds — we 're just wondering what we 're going to do next ! |
| 2 | He was instructed not actually to conclude a sale without first referring back to his principal ; he was to receive commission if a sale was concluded . |
| 3 | Foley , stony-faced , told him that the dirty tricks brigade , led by Charles Fraser-Smith , had turned up earlier to make a replica of the prisoner 's uniform , correct in every detail . |
| 4 | Checklists may be used not only to determine a child 's current level of functioning , but also to establish the focus for subsequent intervention . |
| 5 | PEST exterminator Frank Murray was called on yesterday to SAVE a swarm of wasps . |
| 6 | The Amble lifeboat was called out yesterday to take a crewman with a gashed hand off an oil rig support ship in the North Sea . |
| 7 | I 've already eaten enough today to do a man for a week . |
| 8 | Even so , she had lingered long enough to watch a tanker ploughing a parallel course , though in the opposite direction , probably bound for the big oil refinery . |
| 9 | He had hoped then also to find a publisher who was prepared to offer a comparable insight into the operation of an academic publishing house , but no publisher had accepted the brief , possibly for fear of revealing intimate company details . |
| 10 | Having the crust to attempt a poem in 100 or 120 cantos long after all mankind has been commanded never again to attempt a poem of any length , I have to stagger as I can . |
| 11 | The idea was that this was a way of ironing out minor disputes , but the clause was worded widely enough to cover a dispute arising out of wrongful termination of the contract . |
| 12 | The points should be sharpened vertically downwards to give a chisel point ( except on vertical front points , which are sharpened as an ice-axe pick ) . |
| 13 | Some of the larger literary claims made by the New Critics of the 1950s , by contrast , are to be quoted now only to indicate a mood forever lost . |