Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they ca n't be moved ( for example you may prefer not to call in a plumber to move the sink ) , stick them down . |
| 2 | You must know how to go about a revision of this kind . |
| 3 | In what follows I should like further to work through the implications of conceiving of postmodernism in terms of de-differentiation . |
| 4 | No , never tell me more of your goings and comings than is my due , I need only to know , as nearly as you may judge , how long I must bide here to wait for the answer . ’ |
| 5 | Ellis , who was unemployed and living on benefit , hit upon the idea that the girl should go out to work as a prostitute , it was claimed . |
| 6 | ‘ Robert did n't say I must go back to work after the baby ’ , Lucy told me , ‘ but he began to be reluctant about switching on electric fires and looking disapproving if I did ’ . |
| 7 | The first was that for our generation we must learn how to live with the earth promoting harmony sustainability and diversity and , therefore , creation , spirituality was the keynote of the address . |
| 8 | Elites which wish to manage the dilemma — they can not transcend it — must learn how to play off the various sub-organizations against one another , how to trigger particular programmes within the sub-organizations , repertoires ( Allison , 1971 , p. 87 ) and how to trigger existing routines in a new context . |
| 9 | The receptionist should learn how to extract from the caller the exact nature of the information required in order to classify the enquiry . |
| 10 | In that situation , a person may choose not to contribute to a public facility on the grounds that others will pay enough to cover its finance ( and he can have a ‘ free ride ’ ) . |
| 11 | You 'll promise not to go to the next race , on Monday , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 12 | Scientists and science educators might do well to worry about the attractiveness of computers and the sense of power they unlock for brilliant young people today . |
| 13 | Er I 'll go on to explain in the product range one of their new products we 're introducing this year . |
| 14 | We 've got which I 'll go on to expand in a minute about . |
| 15 | I did Hope that Lord Nelson who was staying at Raby might come down to partake of the fayre which had been set out on a Royal Oak table decorated with a huge Wheatsheaf , Blue Bells and a small Green Tree that looked very much like Three Tuns . |
| 16 | For example , people who are unfamiliar with keyboards could choose instead to interact with the computer using their normal handwriting . |
| 17 | People who are unfamiliar with keyboards could choose instead to interact with the computer using their normal handwriting . |
| 18 | For example , people who are unfamiliar with keyboards could choose instead to interact with the computer using their normal handwriting . |
| 19 | He fished the cubes out and put them into an ashtray and found it all he could do not to weep at the mess they made with the ash . |
| 20 | A Welsh smallholder quarryman moved into the family farm so that his wife could go out to earn as a washerwoman , but the children did not get on well with their step-grandmother : ‘ There was a very hard side to her , she was a very stern woman , and we did n't like her . ’ |
| 21 | What happened was , when we 'd go there to rehearse on a Friday night , he would disappear for an hour or so . |
| 22 | Now I 'm not I 'm asking is whether its shareholders could write in to apply for a concessionary ticket to Alton Towers and get a reduced price if they so wish . |
| 23 | We wandered back home and when we entered the yard we were called in to go to bed early so we could get up to help in the morning . |
| 24 | Miss Gracie had been the last governess , a pale sad woman who had lived for the brief holidays she could get away to spend with a beloved brother and his family in Stirling . |
| 25 | Ramsey could find nowhere to live within the parish . |
| 26 | We may set out to search with a tight specification of what we want to find . |
| 27 | Johnson ( 1982 , p. 213 ) observes that MPs ‘ may attempt ingeniously to get at the activities of governmental bodies through the questioning of Ministers , but … it is not something attempted very regularly and , when it is , the attack focuses on policy and resources rather than on particular decisions ’ . |
| 28 | Reasonable but depends on the nature of the Business , the state of the Vendor 's records and the type of claims which could arise — some problems may take longer to come to the surface than others . |
| 29 | They were with all the boring stuff at the beginning , the primitive stuff all the other kids used to run past to get to the Frasque fighter . |
| 30 | At Southampton a man in a pin-striped suit said he would prefer not to talk about the crash . |