Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a long document ( as one speaker remarked , there was a danger it would grow so long that no one would read it ) , but after only two days of discussion the fathers voted overwhelmingly to accept the draft as the basis for the final document and went on to debate it section by section . |
| 2 | She will go back eventually to continue her studies there . |
| 3 | We knew very little about these last clients of the season except that they were two attorneys and a proctologist , all from Georgia and all vacationing with their wives , and we also knew that one of the wives was a vegetarian and that the proctologist hated pasta , but beyond that our guests were utter strangers and so we waited nervously to see what kind of people would be our companions and paymasters for the next week . |
| 4 | A mother 's task is thus not to create something out of nothing but rather to dovetail her behaviour to that of the infant 's . [ … ] |
| 5 | He then proceeded to stare into Charlie 's ears and eyes before going on to hit his kneecaps with a rubber stick . |
| 6 | We might have been a lot wiser if , presumably to preserve their privacy , they had n't always used English in front of Maria . |
| 7 | Five things to achieve may well seem a lot , but for encouragement read on to see what objectives other women have set themselves . |
| 8 | A market economy constructed around communitarian values and proactively managed is the engine of wealth creation — and the race is on to see which party adopts that credo as its own . |
| 9 | and a little boy nipped on to see his mum the boy never got off so he was still on the bus |
| 10 | Playing with Darcy , the 33-year-old Dubliner dropped a shot early on to see his lead reduced by two shots . |
| 11 | John Wesley edited an abridged edition and used it widely to support his sermons . |
| 12 | Instead of using complicated measurements involving colour purity , resolution etc. to compare their performance I simply used each monitor for a day . |
| 13 | When the old Major , so soon to die , had travelled secretly to see his son and meet her , she recognized his courtesy because he was a gentleman , but there was no welcome and no warmth in him . |
| 14 | The study went on to estimate what fuels would have been used in electricity generation if there had been no nuclear power , concluding that the world 1987 total of 1660,800 million kilowatt-hours of electricity generated by nuclear power had displaced 1,790 million barrels of oil , 185 million tonnes of coal and 3,103,000 million cubic feet of natural gas , and had meant the avoidance of purchases of OPEC oil to the value of US$30,700 million in that year alone . |
| 15 | ‘ But before I go on to thank our host , Lord Darlington , I have some small thing I would wish to remove from my chest . |
| 16 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 17 | In 1931 , Horton visited Denmark to look more closely at the Folk Schools and their relationships with the trade unions , farmers ' co-operatives , and other cultural and social movements , and though he was in part disappointed by the fact that the Folk Schools had moved away from their original aims and methods , he was able to speak to many people who were involved in this movement and added another dimension to the idea which was eventually to find its expression in Highlander . |
| 18 | Which you used to light with a taper or something like that and they had little chains on to adjust your light . |
| 19 | As it was , Kim Il Sung worked successfully to establish his authority . |
| 20 | Probably racing on to meet her lover , he thought . |
| 21 | It will settle down and reduce Chair , through you , that the , the , the national figure has been announced that the , for the future year , and it does recognize the fact that there is an assumption that the number of people who D S S continues to support directly will have fallen by thirty five percent by the end of this year , and there will be a further fall , and the amount that 's transferred is very much related to here 's the total available , how much does the D S S need to hold on to meet its commitments , and how much is left to distribute to the local authorities . |
| 22 | Napoleon went on to meet his Waterloo , and the Congress of Vienna , in 1815 , reinstated the Austrians in Lombardy . |
| 23 | Jolyon Jenkins ' selective and tendentious ramblings through old news ( ‘ Crying out for Argentina ’ , 3 April ) do little to provide your readership with the sort of balanced and impartial view of the Falklands they surely deserve . |
| 24 | However , on Jan. 7 Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin declared that what he called the " budget war " was not over , and that although his republic had agreed effectively to increase its contribution to Rbs78,000 million by funding specific all-union programmes , the central government was still demanding an additional Rbs27,000 million . |
| 25 | According to Mensa , some parents resent their child 's special ability and do little to encourage their offspring 's special gifts . |
| 26 | Ellwood gritted his teeth against the weight of water , trying furiously to work his arms and legs against the deadlock of cramp . |
| 27 | Read on to discover which Club would be best for you . |
| 28 | I thought that I would begin with an outline of the problems you face , and go on to chronicle your successes . ’ |
| 29 | The Public Enemy had been a Warner Bros film and that studio soon went on to consolidate its reputation as one specializing in contemporary themes by releasing I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang . |
| 30 | He was looking for somewhere to hide my iron . |