Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place potatoes in just sufficient water to cover , bring to the boil , then simmer slowly to prevent the potatoes falling apart . |
| 2 | It 's as lazy as a cat in hot weather , with the lyric amounting to a mere two verses before the vocals just sit down to let the languid groove take over . |
| 3 | They came home from the sortie on Sunday knowing that the next time they sit down to pick an Under-25 international side they will be looking for three new skips . |
| 4 | WALES chiefs Alan Davies and Robert Norster face a rare new headache tonight as they sit down to pick the first squad of an exciting new season . |
| 5 | But despite Roebuck 's tip the Wallaby fullback is sure to be at the top of the list when Dwyer and his fellow selectors sit down to choose the first Test team to play Scotland in June . |
| 6 | Those who know better will not rest contented with such a meagre peep of a lake so singularly grand , but will round the hill rather more than another mile to the west , and when the dark lake is full in view , sit down to drink a long look from that favourable point of view . |
| 7 | The goods are sent on by large waggons , and meet us at Loch Crinan ; while the ‘ Cygnet ’ or the ‘ Plover ’ puffs along right merrily , and we sit down to have a quiet look at the bonnie bits of scenery that are everywhere meeting us . |
| 8 | Cool enough to wear a jacket at night . ’ |
| 9 | The programmer may choose a long-distance view of the whole execution space of a program , a reduced view as an AND/OR tree , or zoom in to see the details of a single call . |
| 10 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |
| 11 | Frequently too , people who live in a particular geographic location combine together to form a pressure group if their neighbourhood has been earmarked by government for the siting of , for example , a new motorway or nuclear power station or the dumping of nuclear waste which is considered to constitute a substantial threat to their safety and health . |
| 12 | Apart from quartz , silicon and oxygen combine together to form an atomic building-block known as the silicon tetrahedron , with a single atom of silica surrounded by four atoms of oxygen . |
| 13 | The detailed structure of the individual plates that combine together to build the skeleton are the basis for the classification of the corals , as well as the general form . |
| 14 | The mythologies of tragic sacrifice that have coalesced around gay writers like Oscar Wilde and Joe Orton tend only to impede a fully contextual understanding of how their sexuality and textuality inform each other . |
| 15 | For example , proposals such as those to base service provision on charges or vouchers are impractical and tend only to increase the differences between the services available in different areas and to shift the costs from the more visible budgets of the services to the less visible ones of the individual , relatively powerless consumer : either their pockets or their time and energy will be hit . |
| 16 | The one who took the lead looked big enough and mean enough to relish a ruck if there was a chance of one . |
| 17 | Tired cliches like the ‘ information revolution ’ and the no longer new ‘ new technologies ’ tend merely to conceal the degree to which the production and publishing of the national newspapers and the rituals , allegiances and routine expectations of their various readerships have been reworked and transformed . |
| 18 | I mean only to endorse a complex , two-stage way of reasoning about the responsibilities of officials and citizens that finds a natural expression in the personification of community and can not be reproduced by a reductive translation into claims about officials and citizens one by one . |
| 19 | I mean only to provide the following answer to the argument from coordination as an argument for conventionalism . |
| 20 | When dry , rub down to provide a smooth surface for painting . |
| 21 | Instead the guitar rules , and rock musicians flock in to share the vibe . |
| 22 | And yet if you want properly to hear a Prom there is often little alternative but to stay at home with the radio transmission , so wretched are the acoustics in large areas of the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 23 | We want rather to see the state intervene only to prevent such use of land as is clearly anti-social or wasteful , while otherwise development is guided and determined by choice and by economic forces . |
| 24 | The women appear rather to get a share of the compensation for the " " il fit " " , the " unpleasant trick " ( 4184 ) that the clerks had suffered during the preceding day . |
| 25 | With this arrangement , two small or standard mattresses and bases fit together to make a double bed . |
| 26 | Pocket springs can help with differences of up to 4 or 5 stone , or try a zip and link bed with two different mattresses and bases that fit together to make a double bed . |
| 27 | The skulls of an elephant and of a man are different shapes , but this is not because the molecules which fit together to make an elephant 's skull are a different shape from those that make a human skull . |
| 28 | Hideous colours melt together to overwhelm the eye . |
| 29 | At this stage we want only to make an initial contrast between explaining and understanding . |
| 30 | The bitterness with which he attacks pastoral poetry implies a sense of loss : ‘ 'T IS all a gloomy , melancholy Scene , / Fit only to provoke the Muses ' Spleen ’ . |