Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surgeons tried in vain to sew it back on . |
| 2 | The grunge look on short , stocky people you have to be tall to carry it off . |
| 3 | She was better off without him and we were n't sorry to see him off our patch . ’ |
| 4 | Her legs seemed too weak to carry her back upstairs to the sanctuary of her turret room . |
| 5 | Got plenty of friends who would be willing to saw it up . |
| 6 | You are free to carry it on … when I feel fit to release you . ’ |
| 7 | One of the oddities of the situation since her ‘ descent ’ was that most of her clothes had remained in the cupboards upstairs , she had felt unable to go and fetch them , and evidently the other two had felt too embarrassed to carry them down , or perhaps had simply not noticed the problem . |
| 8 | She was committed to a course of action and was prepared to see it through . |
| 9 | Workers who can be exposed to excessively cold weather conditions have not only to know about survival measures during over-exposure , but be able and willing to carry them out . |
| 10 | Suddenly everyone was prepared to write him off . |
| 11 | As a means of selecting a design , the competition had been a complete failure , but in view of the effort which had gone into it , official opinion was not prepared to write it off . |
| 12 | This arrived on Wednesday , February 12th when it was too wet and windy to try it out and frankly , I was too scared . |
| 13 | But Britain 's most famous hockey player insists it 's wrong to write them off . |
| 14 | If the query is of a complicated or technical nature it is quite acceptable to pass it on to the expert , but is this really necessary for a bar of soap or a DIY fitting ? |
| 15 | And , at this stage , it would be quite wrong to rule her out as a suspect . |
| 16 | ‘ Where is he ? ’ she snapped , her tone suggesting that she was prepared to track him down . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm prepared to hear you out , ’ she said through gritted teeth . |
| 18 | ‘ Your mother bought you out and with that money you are willing to buy me out ? ’ |
| 19 | but it does n't , that does n't mean to say that these associations you know are n't there and that we we should n't would be wrong to point them out . |
| 20 | This is to tell you that I hope to send you about 10 questionnaires on ELT dictionaries ( intermediate rather than advanced ) this week , for you and whoever else ( teachers or students — mixture if possible ) might be willing to fill them in . |
| 21 | You are more likely to have a rug accepted by an auctioneer if you are prepared to put it up without a reserve ( a figure agreed between you and the auctioneer below which they will not sell the rug ) , but this is extremely risky as it could then be sold for far less than it is worth . |
| 22 | Point taken , and I really feel sorry for Rocky at the moment , and hope he does n't leave , but I think with a player like Strachan at the club , who I believe is one of the best players in the Premier League at the moment , I think it would be foolish to leave him out . |
| 23 | He has promised to contact Ron direct to keep him up to date . |
| 24 | Peace Corps was willing to send me off to Honduras , but I did n't feel right about it . |
| 25 | However , the owners may win because they are more prepared to fight it out than the intruder ; when an owner beats a non-territorial intruder , he may win simply because he is stronger . |
| 26 | Collectors seem prepared to Hoover them up , however tenuous the connection with the liner . |
| 27 | And as for your friends , please feel free to invite them along ! |
| 28 | There was too much freedom , too much spare information and too many underground , potentially subversive media only too willing to spread it around . |
| 29 | When people do so , the health-care system and the political machinery of the community are fully prepared to back them up in their unhappy and anything-but-free choice of symptoms . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't think I want to do it again , but it was interesting to live it out . |