Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [prep] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our prisoners are kept safe in the bilboes you were prescient to despatch , and I would have had this Dulay hanged but that he might in death prove a beacon to this same rabble and draw them on to greater reprisals against us , and we are still but few in number . |
| 2 | Once they had turned the Mount , with the full span of the ice shining before them , the two men gathered pace , at once in harmony and contention , drawing vigour from the presence of the young woman between them , who cried out , not in fear but encouraging them on to greater exertions . |
| 3 | Therefore , they will be predisposed to choose applicants from those social classes , thereby reinforcing their examination success and leading them on to greater success than ever . |
| 4 | As well as flying from Madrid to Miami , Iberia can now pick up extra passengers in Miami , ferrying them on in smaller aircraft to six Central American cities and the Mexican resort of Cancun . |
| 5 | He is a good player and it has boosted everyone , but it has not spurred me on to greater efforts . |
| 6 | Rapt , ecstatic , she willed me on to ever-greater feats of ardour . |
| 7 | Griffith now heated his rods in the middle and drew them down to thinner and thinner fibres which after cooling he also broke in tension . |
| 8 | Wholesalers , for example , buy in bulk from the manufacturers , store the goods , break them down into smaller quantities , undertake advertising and promotional activities , deliver to other traders , usually retailers , and arrange credit and other services for them . |
| 9 | And , all run here , everything was run here , and animals , animals that won here , well er well I think they put them down as better animals than animals that raced before the war , you know , cos they had to do such a lot in a short time . |
| 10 | However , the contract expressly left them over for later agreement . |
| 11 | You may find the competitive element useful for stirring you on to greater efforts , and you will certainly find it reassuring to know that you share a common problem and that there is not something intrinsically wrong with you . |
| 12 | That will at least tide you over until better days , when they come . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ When my name is cleared , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ I 'd like to set you up in better premises , supply you with as much leather as you need and get you an apprentice or two . ’ |
| 14 | Such a policy makes sense only if the administration really is prepared to carry out its threats , and even to follow them up with worse . |
| 15 | Achievement conscious pupils may conspire with their teachers in this process of limitation too , drawing them back to safer pedagogical ground when exploration threatens to divert them from their examination destination . |
| 16 | However , delegates from the Black Consciousness Movement ( BCM ) failed to endorse the resolutions which had been hammered out in hours of debate and decided instead to take them back for further discussions by its supporters . |
| 17 | When the children were older , Green took them out on longer walks , when he was painting or drawing in the hills , and occasionally took one of them on one of his excursions , when he would stay away from Ambleside for a week or more . |
| 18 | ‘ If we can get them interested in the source of the sound there is then the chance that we gently lead them out into deeper water . |
| 19 | If it be at an untimely hour , or if they fail to assign a proper reason for being in a place , he is to arrest them … showing bad characters that they are known and watched by him … their habits will point them out without further ado … |
| 20 | This effectively cut them out from higher education . |
| 21 | The loving parent who tries to shield the child from harm to such an extent that he becomes timid and anxious can cause as many problems as the thoughtless and impatient adult who thinks that telling the child he is stupid will spur him on to greater efforts . |
| 22 | Please call her on for further details and tickets . |
| 23 | Having her daughter has not stopped her from doing more or less what she had planned , but has spurred her on to better results . |
| 24 | So in 1911 Steel-Maitland offered to join the Halsbury Club in order to guide it on to safer lines — and was immediately accused of disloyalty by Walter Long . |
| 25 | I take it in for further research . |
| 26 | Then we broke it down into smaller components to set us scale it down . ’ |
| 27 | Rather than taking the piece as a whole she broke it down into smaller parts and then worked on them with separate hands and at varied rhythms . |
| 28 | Rather than trying to tackle the gybe as a whole , break it down into smaller component parts and try to make each part smooth . |
| 29 | You start by entering a basic ‘ global ’ idea and break it down into smaller and smaller steps . |
| 30 | You start by entering a basic ‘ global ’ idea and break it down into smaller and smaller steps . |