Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But this is the bit that took me longest to work out . |
| 2 | But when she was very sad she understood that sorrow casts out fear , and then the murderer could call with a few of his friends and she would tell them wearily to bugger off and they would go , since , after all , there can be no satisfaction in murdering the dead . |
| 3 | A symbiotically mute pair then sectioned each of these into eight translucent oblongs , flouring them and stacking them delicately to sell on to the baklava and bougatsa makers round the corner . |
| 4 | Seals have almost spherical lenses and can not flatten them enough to see far through the air . |
| 5 | But there 's a moral argument that at some point you 're not paying them enough to live on . |
| 6 | It did n't take me long to find out otherwise . |
| 7 | Besides , it did n't take me long to figure out I was wrong . ’ |
| 8 | If their attackers were in any strength it would not take them long to get through . |
| 9 | But there was nothing around that moved me enough to go out and change things . |
| 10 | ‘ Nothing especially to look out for ? ’ |
| 11 | Yeah , they would be er erm , I think they would , would be more like er , see of course when we came back here to Stoke er I mean that severed relations with them so to speak apart from like say letters , they did use , used to write I remember getting letters and we 'd send letters , perhaps only twice a year , but I can remember them mentioning . |
| 12 | On several tables draped with white oil-cloth reposed the battered and bloody remains of what was left of five Chinese bodies , and Fred Peavy , the mortician-embalmer , was apparently trying to piece them together to make up the contents of five plain wooden coffins . |
| 13 | The process of scientific research is therefore a continuous one , and seen in this light sociology accumulates its findings and brings them together to build up its generalizations and , if possible , laws of social behaviour . |
| 14 | Now if you wanted to sleep with someone just to find out about it , I can understand that , but surely you are … beyond that stage ? ’ |
| 15 | Ask someone else to justify how much it meant to us . |
| 16 | The secret of good management is , never put off until tomorrow what you can get someone else to do today , especially if you want it done yesterday . |
| 17 | I am unrepentant ; perhaps it will encourage someone else to do better . |
| 18 | Some of them are reluctant to ask visiting relatives , who may already be doing shopping for them , to run extra errands , such as taking prescriptions to the chemist or clothes to the launderette or dry cleaners , changing their library books and collecting their pension ; so it is always as well to check to make sure that you are meeting these needs , or arranging for someone else to do so . |
| 19 | He ran the trolley down to the corridor 's end and left it there for someone else to pick up and use , and then he doubled back and started to walk the distance to the locker room . |
| 20 | You are seeking ideas whenever you invite someone else to put forward an idea about a possible course of action . |
| 21 | One of the biggest problems in desktop publishing is that to archive a finished newsletter or whatever takes up an entire floppy disk for one issue — and it 's even worse if you want to squirt the thing down the wire for someone else to print out . |
| 22 | and we could maybe find someone else to go off and do it with |
| 23 | Though it would be a case of finding someone else to go off with and not just sort of like , I mean we mentioned it years ago . |
| 24 | It 's always easier for someone else to see where you 've missed the point . |
| 25 | confidentiality is crucial and it would be wrong to expect someone else to take over |
| 26 | I have some wonderful memories which I will always cherish but it is time for someone else to take over . |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps the time has come for someone else to take on the burden . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ If a player flicks up the ball and tries to head it to his goalkeeper , or flicks it up for someone else to knock back , he 'll be booked for ungentlemanly conduct . ’ |
| 29 | We will send someone else to clear out the site . ’ |
| 30 | The trustee is to chair meetings of the committee , but he may nominate someone else to stand in for him and that person must either be an employee of his experienced in insolvency matters or another qualified insolvency practitioner ( r 6.154 ) . |