Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're in trouble , or have a problem , everyone pitches in to help . |
| 2 | The ‘ Minister of the Crown ’ role was hung on little Colin Moynihan for a day or two while everyone tried not to laugh ; he was , after all , only just over five foot tall and Minister for Sport and he had , after all , not slept with Pamella , only been with her at the Winter Ball . |
| 3 | He had offered the car to Hubert for the summer on condition that everyone promised never to stand on the running boards , because they were threatening to fall off . |
| 4 | I 'm in the process of trying to get someone to come in to do one evening girls ' assertiveness , you know which some of them said they 'd quite like to do . |
| 5 | At another hatch an arm appears holding up bright enamel bowls and someone dashes forward to claim the grey cassava and fishheads . |
| 6 | Someone cares enough to sponsor his education . |
| 7 | Poppy seemed so much happier — the staff at the home had obviously helped to build her trust in people , although she still cowered if someone bent down to make a fuss of her . |
| 8 | I reckon hed kick someones bollox if someone came up to do that to him . |
| 9 | The French believed there were British officers aboard , and others think someone came back to fire the explosive , for there was more than an hour 's delay on the set time . |
| 10 | Then she asked if I would consider returning home with someone living in to look after me . |
| 11 | Consider someone deciding not to try to go to the theatre . |
| 12 | A wedge of frosty light clove a farmyard as someone stepped out to look at the stars in the russet sky . |
| 13 | Jim thought , ‘ Hello , is someone coming up to keep me company ? ’ and went to the door and looked out down the steps . |
| 14 | You do n't suddenly go blind for the duration of a ‘ phone call and are , therefore , prey to all sorts of visual distractions — people walking past the window , someone coming in to see you and so on . |
| 15 | It is a municipal duty for someone to climb up to wind it every day . |
| 16 | So , thought Pamela , there 's a person in there if only someone knew how to let it out . |
| 17 | A reader " trained " in reading according to conventional interpretation ( by means , typically , of an English degree in an institution of higher education ) would probably be more disposed towards resolving invisible metaphors than someone reading simply to pass away a boring train journey . |
| 18 | If the worst comes to the worst , and I 'm unable to continue , he 'll have to have someone standing by to fill in for me . |
| 19 | To honour someone means openly to acknowledge their worth . |
| 20 | Just when you think you have got your finances whipped into shape something or someone comes along to upset the apple cart . |
| 21 | Just when you think you have got your finances whipped into shape something or someone comes along to upset the apple cart . |
| 22 | ‘ I believe someone comes in to pick up the post from time to time . ’ |
| 23 | She was disappointed to find that nothing came immediately to mind . |
| 24 | The etymology of the medieval French word carries some suggestion of what the characteristic features of tales of this genre were originally considered to be , although nothing detailed enough to form a definition . |
| 25 | But he protested : ‘ Nobody goes out to play badly and sometimes mistakes are made . |
| 26 | When one is ill it 's the knowledge that somebody cared enough to come and see one that matters more than the flowers and the lemon barley water . |
| 27 | ‘ I just kept screaming and screaming until somebody came in to help . ’ |
| 28 | Occasional planes crossed the landscape , far beneath , but nobody toiled up to challenge him . |
| 29 | Right , yes it 's quite often aggressive people passive people who like maybe having passive people around and just needs somebody to walk over to shout at and behaving in an aggressive way , so maybe we have to go aggressive when we deal with an aggressive person . |
| 30 | I mean they must find they must find it expensive because I mean if they 're keeping that house on they have to have somebody going in to look at it , wo n't they ? |