Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Apart from anything else you 're seconded to our team now so asking you to leave is n't entirely up to IMP any more . ’
2 The doors of the classrooms along it had handwritten cards drawing-pinned to them saying things like ‘ Course 21B : Italian ’ or ‘ Over 60s Metalworking ’ and one that said ‘ Blue Tit Patrol ’ pinned high enough up to avoid any graffiti .
3 The Latics were one of only four sides to beat the League champions last season and Royle said : ‘ They will be going all out to put that right . ’
4 I went , I went all out to get this place in nineteen eighty three
5 Anyway , we were all soon off to start another morning 's work .
6 ‘ And I 'm just off to buy more wallpaper paste for her . ’
7 And we really are not out to kill each other in the way that quite often those awards would lead one to believe .
8 He 's not out to break any records , but says the bike is capable of some very high speeds .
9 I I I 'm just about to do that
10 Well I was just about to do that .
11 In fact I was just about to do this when Mr Gillis decided he was ready .
12 well I was , I was get , I was just about to mention that
13 I was just about to put some more out .
14 Just before he got a good grip he went , he got a grip and he was just about to squeeze this , I went I sort of went of tiptoes and I goes , I 'll let it slide this time .
15 She walked hastily from him and into the store-room , and he followed her , and they were just about to confront each other again when the back door leading into the yard opened and there , revealed in the gaslight , was Jessie .
16 I was just about to make that point and I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman raised it .
17 She was just about to make some coffee , when the front door bell rang .
18 ‘ I was just about to make some iced tea . ’
19 ‘ The players , myself and the staff have come a long way together and are not about to let all the hard work go down the drain . ’
20 Having discovered all this at life 's two-furlong pole , Piggott is not about to let some doctor tell him that he wo n't finish the race — especially not an American doctor .
21 Thus a false belief that a man is about to set off a bomb might well be reprehensible in a soldier , who therefore shoots him , when the soldier could and should have known that the man was not about to do any such thing .
22 Believe me , I 'm not a magician and I 'm not about to cast some awful spell on you .
23 ‘ We are not about to put that to the test .
24 Gregg was a larger than life character on and off the field — but he 's not about to put any pressure on his son .
25 I 'm not about to wrap all that stuff up and take it home again , and God knows it 's a sin to waste it . ’
26 But it was soon evident that the government was not about to share any of its information or , indeed , to cooperate with Pan Am in any meaningful way .
27 But she was not about to reveal such precious dreams to him .
28 Something ill was always about to befall Little Nemo when he was doing the rounds 85 years ago .
29 Press it into the side opposite the tail and bend both around to meet each other .
30 Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look .
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