Example sentences of "[adv prt] [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 | He then proceeded to stare into Charlie 's ears and eyes before going on to hit his kneecaps with a rubber stick . |
| 3 | Five things to achieve may well seem a lot , but for encouragement read on to see what objectives other women have set themselves . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | and a little boy nipped on to see his mum the boy never got off so he was still on the bus |
| 6 | Playing with Darcy , the 33-year-old Dubliner dropped a shot early on to see his lead reduced by two shots . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ But before I go on to thank our host , Lord Darlington , I have some small thing I would wish to remove from my chest . |
| 9 | Which you used to light with a taper or something like that and they had little chains on to adjust your light . |
| 10 | Probably racing on to meet her lover , he thought . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Napoleon went on to meet his Waterloo , and the Congress of Vienna , in 1815 , reinstated the Austrians in Lombardy . |
| 13 | Read on to discover which Club would be best for you . |
| 14 | I thought that I would begin with an outline of the problems you face , and go on to chronicle your successes . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And , without waiting for a reply to his question about whether she gave Morton tacit approval for the book which became the biggest seller in the history of royal publishing , Philip went on to accuse his daughter-in-law of putting the dignity of the Crown at risk . |
| 17 | Without his mask , the brave public face he put on to hide his sickness and anxiety , Modigliani looks ill and depressed . |
| 18 | Biting his lip anxiously , Ramsay prepared to hurry down to alert his men . |
| 19 | They will often invite you in to see their stock , and if you make a purchase you may be rewarded with a glass of madeira wine . |
| 20 | ‘ He walked in to see her standing in the kitchen naked with burnt pubic hair , ’ said Mr Godsmark . |
| 21 | Also , one of my carers — who is very caring , goes all the time , does the work for the person — is very young and quite quiet , and I feel … well last week a doctor came in to see her client , and if it had been one of the older carers I 'm sure they would have had a go at the doctor and forced him to do more than he actually did . |
| 22 | One night when she was ready for bed she called Maureen in to see her preparations . |
| 23 | ‘ I share with David an ’ he 's bound to keep comin' in to see what we'se doin' and Edward has n't had a room of his own ever . |
| 24 | Sheepishly I fed the other meter , too , and slouched in to see my Alexander Technique teacher , who 's helping me to stand up straight . |
| 25 | Having explained this , I hope you 'll think again before storming in to see your son 's headmaster . |
| 26 | So , if you 're in to see your doctor at five at night and get a script , you 've got to wait until two the next day . |
| 27 | The gipsy was loudly demanding to be allowed in to see his sister . |
| 28 | It was Mary Donovan who suggested that Eileen 's younger brother might slip in to see his nephew before he left for America . |
| 29 | Before he left he slipped in to see his wife . |
| 30 | For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed . |