Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off |
| 2 | And as discussion moves on to include the other major activities within English — critical discrimination and classroom talk — it becomes clear that the central difficulties remain . |
| 3 | She went on to emphasise the growing need to tackle environmental problems : ‘ It is no good proposing that we go back to some simple village life and halve our population by some means that have not yet been revealed . |
| 4 | The Board ordered that they be received into the vagrants ' ward as a temporary measure , and went on to instruct the medical officer to vaccinate all the other unprotected inmates of the workhouse . |
| 5 | He had been dropped off a hard chance when just twelve were needed , but went on to hit the winning four off Botham , and his eight wickets and two useful knocks earned him the Man of the Match award . |
| 6 | I was n't about to miss the parade , and went on to see the whole event , and photographed it — all the red flags , the guns , the cannons , the missiles , everything , including Black September Group marching . |
| 7 | God 's Gift Mine , it was recognised , lay conveniently near to the Brigham smelters enabling ore deliveries to be maintained throughout the winter months whereas the other ores " further distant , can not be brought to the said smelting house , but in the sumer only … you may therefore consider how farr forth those Mynes soe farr distant may bee sett upon with good strength in sumer and what number of kibbles will weekly be gotten and towards winter when that will faile , to drive those pickmen from there to work in Gods gift , if the winter shall not hinder untill we may be furnished either out of Germainie or our own Nation with a sufficient number of pickmen to man all the works thoroughly & withall to consider whether the Myne of Gods Gift be not so plentifull as some other new Stolnes ( G. Stollen — tunnel , adit etc. ) or head ( possibly a forerunner of our word " heading " ) may be driven thereby to gitt the like weekly pportion ( proportion ) as hath formerly been gotten there . " |
| 8 | He goes on to connect the semantic change with ‘ the general tendency of the Enlightenment not to accept any authority and to decide everything before the judgement seat of reason ’ ( p. 241 ) . |
| 9 | It is with sincere people such as these in mind that this leaflet has been written — not to ride roughshod over a sincerely held belief but rather to confirm the absolute necessity of finding Purgatory , but not a Purgatory that is arrived at after death which is the popular view , but rather a Purgatory that is found before death which is the proper view according to God 's guide , the Holy Bible . |
| 10 | When Lok acquires this tool , he goes on to compare the new people to things he is familiar with , noting their menace , power , and sheer attractiveness by comparing them to a famished wolf , the waterfall , honey and Oa . |
| 11 | By comparison with his three immediate predecessors — Kilwardby , Pecham and Winchelsey — he may well appear near illiterate , and , except for Hubert Walter in the 1190s , he was the first archbishop to combine the primacy with the chancellorship of the realm , which tended rather to compromise the first than the second office . |
| 12 | The shy 19-year-old who married the heir to the throne has gone on to shake the British monarchy to its roots . |
| 13 | The bulk of capital continued , however , to be supplied by the landed interest whose resources and local initiatives did most to provide the improved road network . |
| 14 | We felt it right to accept the inevitable costs at this stage in the economic cycle and not to cut back on long-term plans that will strengthen the economy . |
| 15 | If you know such a coach then nominate him/her now because the search is on to find the 1993 Coach of the Year . |
| 16 | And the search is on to find the top dog among an entry of eight hundred collies , German shepherds and even poodles . |
| 17 | Yanto 's head throbbed abominably as he cycled slowly to work the following morning , but at least it was Saturday , he told himself thankfully . |
| 18 | Such evidence is given by phrases including ‘ I saw women with prams obstructed by the offending vehicle parking across a pavement ’ ; ‘ several motor cars had to negotiate carefully and slowly to pass the offending vehicle ’ etc . |
| 19 | Todorov then goes on to establish the primary categories of his narrative grammar , and they are proper noun , adjective and verb . |
| 20 | In 1843 the Corsican hotelier Zenon Vantini leased them , achieving such success that he went on to establish the first railway refreshment room at Wolverton . |
| 21 | So the teacher finally asks Peggy , who can be relied on to know the correct answer : |
| 22 | The submarine , which was eventually to provide the best means of delivering the torpedo , was still an infant ; only one or two curious submersible craft had been built and they had not yet affected naval thinking . |
| 23 | Looking round for somewhere to hide the wrecked toy she climbed on to a chair and put the doll on top of the nursery cupboard . |
| 24 | There is a ‘ loop ’ ( ( 5 ) d-(5)f ) while the listener establishes the siting of the aerial but having established the options the speaker then goes on to indicate the next step of the route — ( ( 5 ) i ) . |
| 25 | Lord Morton went on to construe the statutory terms extremely narrowly as permitting challenge only if express statutory requirements were violated . |
| 26 | In 1893 , when American celebrated the 400th anniversary of Columbus ( a year late ) , the robber barons who banded together to support the Chicago exhibition went on to found the American Academy in Rome . |
| 27 | This idea may not be suitable for a real beginner , but if anyone is really enthusiastic about cake decorating it should not take long to acquire the necessary skills , enabling them to create some lovely and different effects . |
| 28 | They are simple to install , for all that is required is that they be level from side to side , and with the lip protruding sufficiently to enable the full body of water to be emptied into the pool rather than on to the surrounding ground ( Fig. 9 ) . |
| 29 | Since there is no net escape of RNA polymerase past the identifiable platination site , the most likely explanation of this effect is that the intercalator perturbs the geometry of the coordination complex sufficiently to enable the catalytic site of the RNA polymerase to move slowly an additional one or two bp along the DNA . |
| 30 | Still less to see the flood-lit walls of the prison . |