Example sentences of "and [vb base] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But volcanoes are also found in the interiors of plates where they are associated with hot spots and tend to occur either as clusters or lines . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The birds spend much of their day foraging in dense , varied vegetation and return to roost together at dusk . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |