Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Whereas very few people want or need to travel across the Atlantic in Concorde , hundreds of millions of people use computers or related equipment . |
| 2 | But the experts say that has to start with the teenage nation . |
| 3 | er s er but those occupations that worked shift and had to go round the clock had to have eight hour shifts , three shifts . |
| 4 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 5 | After Allitt 's arrest in May , she had been released on police bail and gone to stay with the family of a fellow nurse and former flatmate , Tracey Jobson , in Peterborough . |
| 6 | Material from the rest of the cloud globule continually falls into the embryonic sun , building up further mass , pressure and temperature , soon reaching thousands of degrees centigrade and beginning to glow like the T Tauri stars ( glowing clouds of dense cosmic dust ) , which astronomers now think are the typical intermediate link between the dark globules and fully formed stars . |
| 7 | The genes themselves do n't evolve , they merely survive or fail to survive in the gene pool . |
| 8 | The higher-level , task-related interactive project work that seems to prevail inside the office would , if it were to be done by teleworkers , require workflow management tools that ‘ are still in their infancy ’ , according to , systems integration consultant with Glasgow-based specialists Iain Graham Consultants . |