Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its aims and operations are still too loosely formulated to allow it to be the cohesive force it could be . |
| 2 | If you really can only go shopping once a week , you will have to store all you fruit and vegetables in the refrigerator or somewhere cool to prevent them from spoiling . |
| 3 | John 's manner was off-putting to the faint-hearted , but as I slowly got to know him , realised his lack of physical and social grace covered an ultra-soft centre , and I came to love the man . |
| 4 | ‘ Carrying a knife makes you feel big , you 'll eventually want to use it , ’ said one . |
| 5 | Then , in a lilting yet hesitant voice that betrayed his unfamiliarity with English , he added , ‘ I am most honoured to meet you , Lady Fei . |
| 6 | In fact , it closely resembled the constitution of the Consulate established in 1800 , and like its predecessor it would require little change to turn it into an Empire . |
| 7 | Well Newcastle folk have been waiting a long time , and we all badly want to give them something to celebrate . ’ |
| 8 | When she eventually rose to face him her smile was pure theatre . |
| 9 | The slave will not work unless he is made , and therefore he does little ; he is no better , or little better , if he does his work well than if he does it ill , and therefore he rarely cares to do it very well . |
| 10 | He could feel his thoughts beginning to stampede and furiously tried to hold them in check . |
| 11 | It is worth recalling that even at the height of Britain 's imperial power we rarely tried to go it alone . |
| 12 | There is no suggestion that Chief Whip Mr Ryder or his Whips Office colleagues were guilty of this particular brutish behaviour , but many other Euro rebels complained that they were mercilessly browbeaten to make them withdraw their opposition . |
| 13 | Almost immediately , Doherty went on to try to make it general and so , of course , capable of calling for a general strike . |
| 14 | This is the point erm , well Plato made the point that the people we most want to rule us are probably the ones that are the least likely to want to take on that duty and Ben Williams made the same point the other way round that the people who rise to the top in politics are likely to be the ones that we would least like to have governing us . |
| 15 | He 's always doing things quietly and behind the scenes and he 's always there with that one little touch to encourage you to keep going . ’ |
| 16 | What would employees below think to hear us shouting at the top of our voices about what is and what is not the correct Chinaman ? ’ |
| 17 | honourable friends join me in condemning the non-sensible advice given by liberty to truanting school children that they should defy police and is n't it absolutely typical that the party opposite tend to support them . |
| 18 | But I mean I I expect , I mean even we had some left over e eventually you could sell them to our own members because they 'd all want to use it |
| 19 | Remember when he went up to the aeroplane , Jim only hate to haul him away and slap him once and he learned , he did n't go near an aeroplane any more |
| 20 | Congressman Long thinks to give us alms , kicked towards us with the dirty soles of his shoes , so that the Salvadorean people , on their bended knees , lick them up from the ground with their tongues . |
| 21 | I do so want to help him before he makes a complete fool of himself . |
| 22 | I did so want to tell you how I felt , but I just … just could n't seem to , somehow . |
| 23 | Well , you could go in to shop to buy them do n't you ? |
| 24 | They did not realise that three years would elapse before Black 's injuries would be sufficiently stabilised to enable them to be measured by his doctors or that there are factors in the functioning of the United Kingdom judicial system which would thwart him from securing justice in the courts . |
| 25 | Many persons will have their own particular reasons for gratitude to him , and everyone will so warmly want to wish him well for the new place in life which awaits him back in his own native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 26 | His petty-bourgeois family background , his status as an intellectual conversant with the rites of bourgeois education , values and culture , his sophisticated literary and critical talents as a writer , all conspired to set him apart from the communist party leadership and rank and file members alike . |
| 27 | Selina donned an apron and put her hair up under a baseball cap and prickled with female make-do and knowhow , while Mandy and Debby took it in turns to amuse me downstairs . |
| 28 | They did n't drive around in their fathers ' cast-off Rollers ; they pooled their resources , picked up a MkII escort for a hundred notes at an auction and took it in turns to drive it round a disused airfield practising handbrake turns until the car cried enough . |
| 29 | I shall never forget the kindness of the many people who took it in turns to give me a lift , so that I did n't have to drive there and back . |
| 30 | For an hour or two each day , no more , Howard and Felicity take it in turns to teach them . |