Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More and more armies were becoming reliable though still very cumbersome machines , mechanisms which could be relied on to perform competently on the battlefield the evolutions in which they had been trained , and to stand enemy fire without flinching . |
| 2 | ‘ I just wish clients could always be relied on to behave likewise . ’ |
| 3 | The real McCoy is made up in loose linens , which can be relied on to hang stylishly on even the stickiest of summer days . |
| 4 | He failed conspicuously to do so and continues to side-step any commitment to taking the effective steps which many senior military experts believe could at least limit the damage , by calling from time to time for a mere tightening of sanctions against Serbia . |
| 5 | But Fodor goes on to argue that much of what can be said about reflexes can also be said about processes which we would normally regard as ‘ cognitive ’ rather than ‘ neurological ’ or ‘ behavioural ’ : the parsing of heard sentences , for example . |
| 6 | I believe that a Christian 's position on this matter recognises the necessity for state action but goes on to argue that much of education , health and other welfare services could be quite adequately provided through the private sector , with the result that people would be free to exercise greater freedom of choice and also exercise greater responsibility over their lives . |
| 7 | He goes on to describe very vividly how Caesar was stabbed to death , and as he fell , so did the whole of Rome and all her contents . |
| 8 | He then goes on to refer quite correctly to the fact that apparently they 're using the nineteen eighty one census figures , instead of the ninety one census figures , this could result in er , a reduction in the amount of the cash available , and we should resist that , I personally think that 's less important . |
| 9 | John then goes on to say well of course we 're going to refer this to the Secretary of State . |
| 10 | Goody goes on to make even larger claims about the ways in which the acquisition of writing , which permits man to reflect upon what he has thought , has permitted the development of cognitive structures which are not available to the non-literate ( cf. also the views of Vygotsky , 1962 ) . |
| 11 | The writer goes on to make further points about the picture 's elements . |
| 12 | I told him I wanted to go on to work afterwards , nut really I needed thinking time to try and figure him out . |
| 13 | Another mortar team has moved into the orchard this evening , 13th June , and got down to work straight away by sending off several rounds of high explosives in quick succession in the direction of the enemy positions . |
| 14 | Instructors should test every student before allowing them to go solo to make quite sure that they are not seriously affected by reduced ‘ g ’ . |
| 15 | He put out his arms and caught her and held her , and they stood there on the gravel path in the grounds of Hilderbridge General Hospital , embraced as if they had long been lovers and had known each other with profound emotion and physical joy and had been parted only to meet again now , by chance , so felicitously . |
| 16 | I have always liked to read the Golden Age detective stories , if you like , the country house murder mysteries , but I would have to admit that reading those is to some extent desire for stasis , a desire erm for a particularly safe kind of world , where everything works out in the end , because that 's usually what happens , and so these days I tend only to take very small doses of that particular medicine . |
| 17 | At Beaulieu Abbey near Loches he would have seen the piece of stone from the Holy Sepulchre which his notoriously savage ancestor Count Fulk the Black was believed to have bitten off while kneeling down to pray there on one of his three pilgrimages to Jerusalem . |
| 18 | eventually I went up and I tried to get him to go down to sleep again , and he was shutting his eyes and on his dummy , but he was |
| 19 | It is for the HVS–E1 climber that the crag has most to offer though , and a short tour along the edge taking in the following climbs will not disappoint . |
| 20 | Phone your friend Paula and tell her to find somewhere to sleep tonight . |
| 21 | When the young are older , able to run with her , the vixen shepherds them to their new home , induces them to move in and somehow makes sure that they are disciplined enough to stay underground in this new home even when she is not with them . |
| 22 | Even before they had left , his PA , Caroline Amphlett , had come in to take away the tea cups and clear the table . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't bother to come in to work tomorrow . ’ |
| 24 | Her mouth brushed the smooth velvet of his shoulders , and moved down to sweep lightly across his turgid male nipples . |
| 25 | Note that the killer was a Euro-convertible , brilliantly conceived by the company 's advisers : it proved as fatal as another financiers ' wheeze , the repurchase of 40% of IBC , which helped greatly to destroy virtually the entire value of that company 's equity . |
| 26 | She needs only to run close to the form which saw her finish second to multiple scorer Kassab over course and distance last month to turn this contest into a procession . |
| 27 | Leonard has only to play effectively to win a Test place against the All Blacks in the second international in Wellington on Saturday week . |
| 28 | They do not control the party ; they are not well organised enough to do so . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , he would , if I insisted , ’ Mrs McMahon grinned , ‘ only I 'm not fool enough to do so . |
| 30 | Not fool enough to stand aside and watch the best thing that 's ever happened to me wither away because I 'm too scared to let it put down roots . |