Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In practice , ethnographers tend rather to play down the question of whether their particular group is typical of others , but the reader must recognize that the choice of group is a kind of sampling , and the question of representativeness must arise . |
| 3 | One of their employees , a store manager , failed properly to carry out the system with the result that Radiant washing powder was advertised in the window at 2s. 11d. when in fact the only packets available in the shop were 3s. 11d. ( section 11(d) the Trade Descriptions Act which made this an offence has since been repealed and replaced by Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , see paragraph 16–28 below ) . |
| 4 | Instructors should test every student before allowing them to go solo to make quite sure that they are not seriously affected by reduced ‘ g ’ . |
| 5 | PEOPLE savaged by the tabloids are banding together to fight back . |
| 6 | Speaking of exploitation , students of the genre might care to consider Trapper County War ( Guild ) , an archetypal example of the backwoods nightmare , set in one of those supposed hillbilly communities where the locals , when not spitting out tobacco or imprecations , are banding together to hunt down interlopers and blast them to bits . |
| 7 | Quarks bind together to make up larger particles such as the protons and neutrons found in the atomic nucleus . |
| 8 | Very soon , they eat enough to pass on to the next stage of their life cycle . |
| 9 | French plastic manufacturers and bottle suppliers have joined together to set up a recycling company , " Valorplast " , which intends to recycle around 1 billion plastic bottles by the year 1996 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He recovered sufficiently to carry on racing — although the car required rewelding ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She did not think them greater , failed entirely to see why she should . |
| 14 | Her heart going like a trip-hammer , Fabia fought valiantly to hold down panic . |
| 15 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 16 | While he was talking to her , Melissa took the twins out of the pushchair and began to carry them around the store , one balanced on each hip , until she found somewhere to sit down . |
| 17 | Not only did they need somewhere to put up visiting employees ( and , increasingly , the necessary but not always welcome journalists ) they now needed a showcase for their home furnishing ideas . |
| 18 | She reversed in a reckless sweep , scraping the Range Rover with a hideous scream of metal , then tore off down the hairpin bends of the drive , blinking away tears furiously to see where she was going . |
| 19 | If you want somewhere to live why not squat . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Instinct told her to find somewhere to lie up , so she turned unsteadily into the shelter of the trees . |
| 22 | Phone your friend Paula and tell her to find somewhere to sleep tonight . |
| 23 | While Zen waited for his driver to arrive , his hosts tried politely to find out who he was and what he 'd been doing , but he remained deliberately vague . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't ask me , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I ai n't educated enough to work out Chinese puzzles . ’ |
| 26 | What is unusual is for a number of neighbouring schools to pull together to set up what Anne Mountfield describes as an ‘ education innovation trust ’ . |
| 27 | Despite the lack of wind , over the past hour a swell had built beyond the reef — a strange , almost oily swell that rose in long humps only to collapse back on itself as if exhausted by the effort . |
| 28 | Yet the stockmarket has rewarded those investors brave enough to venture in . |
| 29 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 30 | 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 . |