Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Was he furious because she 'd led him on only to change her mind at the last minute ? |
| 32 | Franca thought , he 's sent her on ahead to fix things up , to have things out , to clarify things , to establish the regime , how things are to be from now on . |
| 33 | I 've just phoned her up just to tell her . |
| 34 | They used to let him up here to practise from time to time . ’ |
| 35 | Unsettled by the riddle , Mungo finally decided that Jos had probably shut him up just to get some peace . |
| 36 | It is high time Eubank put on another world-class performance , but opponents such as Gimenez simply do n't fire him up enough to produce his best . |
| 37 | This superb American served the Allies on the sea and in the post-war relief organizations till disgust at the treatment of the Poles by the Western Alliance sent him back home to lick his wounds and write an epic book . |
| 38 | It was n't as if they had some sort of relationship ; he had taken her out only to help her with her search . |
| 39 | A couple of hours of hard graft should see it ready for the next stage of its facelift , and might also tire her out enough to get some sleep . |
| 40 | So I just put it on just to tick |
| 41 | Just a microphone taking erm ju just I just have it on just to have conversations with people . |
| 42 | And I scratched it on there to make sure that I did n't forget it . |
| 43 | Did , did you put it on there to measure it out ? |
| 44 | Even though it 's a brand new house and they 're not gon na pull it down tomorrow to build a bloody factory on top of it . |
| 45 | I copy it down here to help me go forward . |
| 46 | Wexford grasped it in both his hands , raised it high and brought it down hard to meet the empty air . |
| 47 | While in screwing the top , I moved it over slightly to give clearance for my jigsaw blade , and started to cut off the overlap . |
| 48 | ‘ They said it looks OK but they 've towed it off somewhere to search for clues . |
| 49 | All he had to do was wind it up again to find the way out . |
| 50 | In the Sonnet just quoted , Britten breaks off the rhythm only near the end , with a few sustained chords , before taking it up again to come to a strong conclusion . |
| 51 | I bet he 's not tightened it up properly to seal it . |
| 52 | Pete apparently Pete made it up just to get erm get at her . |
| 53 | ‘ But do n't foul it up just to prove I 'm right . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ Like your party trick with the neutrino collectors and the hymetusite : we could n't have scaled it up enough to solve Earth 's energy shortfall , but it could have supported us here whilst we searched for the long-term solution — the high-mass elements in Lucifer 's core . ’ |
| 55 | The phone rings in the night , you pick it up only to hear heavy breathing , silence or a volley of screamed obscenities . |
| 56 | With great magicians I 'll sit and converse , the whole universe would seem like a little pond , deer would swim by and as it swam by , ravage by war neglect and in great pain , I 'll take it out just to wipe its poor face clean and then quietly put it back again , if I worked magic , magic |
| 57 | went strai he out there to see him . |
| 58 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |
| 59 | Its original purpose was to enable us to turn our work so that we could rehang it with the plain side towards us , knit a few rows of reversed stocking stitch and then turn it back again to continue in stocking stitch or pattern . |
| 60 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |