Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More and more armies were becoming reliable though still very cumbersome machines , mechanisms which could be relied on to perform competently on the battlefield the evolutions in which they had been trained , and to stand enemy fire without flinching . |
| 2 | ‘ I just wish clients could always be relied on to behave likewise . ’ |
| 3 | The real McCoy is made up in loose linens , which can be relied on to hang stylishly on even the stickiest of summer days . |
| 4 | French plastic manufacturers and bottle suppliers have joined together to set up a recycling company , " Valorplast " , which intends to recycle around 1 billion plastic bottles by the year 1996 . |
| 5 | He put out his arms and caught her and held her , and they stood there on the gravel path in the grounds of Hilderbridge General Hospital , embraced as if they had long been lovers and had known each other with profound emotion and physical joy and had been parted only to meet again now , by chance , so felicitously . |
| 6 | When the young are older , able to run with her , the vixen shepherds them to their new home , induces them to move in and somehow makes sure that they are disciplined enough to stay underground in this new home even when she is not with them . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't ask me , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I ai n't educated enough to work out Chinese puzzles . ’ |
| 8 | Two men who had come in to quaff down great glasses of cidre were now returning to their scythes in a field opposite , to join a line of sodden reapers there . |
| 9 | Even before they had left , his PA , Caroline Amphlett , had come in to take away the tea cups and clear the table . |
| 10 | I ca n't remember , that 's what I 've come in to find out |
| 11 | When she had looked in to clean up the following day the meal was still on the table , untouched . |
| 12 | By the time Roirbak had reached his workbench and had sat down to ponder over whether he could pay Jahsaxa enough compensation to drop Crevecoeur and why he should want to do that for anyone anyway , Mellissa the receptionist fluted her chimes over his commset . |
| 13 | They do not control the party ; they are not well organised enough to do so . |
| 14 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 15 | Anna had no need to be besought , for she had done a quick sum on the back of her child benefit book , and had worked out that , if Flora could start at St Saviour 's in the summer term , she would have earned enough to put down at least £100 towards the first term 's fees . |
| 16 | They had dropped in to pick up Bill , who was of necessity going without Faye this year , and the sight of Tom in a black dinner suit and a shirt so white that it was almost ultra-violet had rocked Belinda 's usual state of equilibrium where their friendship was concerned . |
| 17 | Or perhaps he had heard rumours of my goings-on , and had come personally to find out ‘ what Kirkup 's up to now ’ — the traditional BC phrase wherever they have the misfortune to discover my presence . |
| 18 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 19 | Firstly , the ore was hand picked over to take out " deads " ( that is , any rock that bore no ore whatsoever ) ; then it was crushed by hand or by machines to a workable size ; then last of all it was washed on racks that shook heavy ore to the bottom while the lighter spar came to the top and was washed or scraped away . |
| 20 | Working with Edward Herman , a business school professor , he 's especially good on showing how the companies create acceptable experts when ordinary ones — simple academics who 've spent lifetimes studying some area — ca n't be trusted not to point out inconvenient facts . |
| 21 | He can be trusted not to give too much away , ’ a former regimental commander says . |
| 22 | The matches are designed not to blow out in strong winds or when immersed in water . |
| 23 | Brocklehurst ( 1980 ) suggests that a unit might be " designed physically to separate then for most of the day " . |
| 24 | This was the Luton Post Office murder , and although , in view of my long labours on the Meehan case , I had resolved not to take up any more cases , this was one that I did not see how I could refuse . |
| 25 | Two-thirds of these were described as faddy while the rest were considered not to eat enough ( Butler and Golding 1986 ) . |
| 26 | Mrs Wright had dropped off to sleep again , making a kind of whistling noise through her mouth . |
| 27 | Although naturally designed more to draw out signs of abnormality , they nevertheless demand similar mental operations , being open-ended procedures in which , for example , subjects are required to interpret proverbs or sort everyday objects in any way they prefer . |
| 28 | by no means ‘ lightly advancing thro ’ her star-trimm 'd crowd' — he had even gone so far as to look up Lantor 's lines about Ianthe — but perhaps women could n't be expected always to live up to what poets wrote about them . |
| 29 | The , the chap rung up to see when was a good time to come and I suggested Monday at half past six . |
| 30 | A lot of people have come up to visit so in those term you know yes we do yeah sort of er seeing each other but erm you know we do n't have a lot of spare time either . |