Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , ethnographers tend rather to play down the question of whether their particular group is typical of others , but the reader must recognize that the choice of group is a kind of sampling , and the question of representativeness must arise . |
| 2 | Quarks bind together to make up larger particles such as the protons and neutrons found in the atomic nucleus . |
| 3 | Very soon , they eat enough to pass on to the next stage of their life cycle . |
| 4 | I have always liked to read the Golden Age detective stories , if you like , the country house murder mysteries , but I would have to admit that reading those is to some extent desire for stasis , a desire erm for a particularly safe kind of world , where everything works out in the end , because that 's usually what happens , and so these days I tend only to take very small doses of that particular medicine . |
| 5 | If you want somewhere to live why not squat . |
| 6 | Yet the stockmarket has rewarded those investors brave enough to venture in . |
| 7 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 8 | It iss better to find out for yourself , our Guider says , than to be told . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , he would , if I insisted , ’ Mrs McMahon grinned , ‘ only I 'm not fool enough to do so . |
| 10 | Not fool enough to stand aside and watch the best thing that 's ever happened to me wither away because I 'm too scared to let it put down roots . |
| 11 | Press gently to squeeze out a star of icing , stop the pressure , and pull away the nozzle tip so that the icing star forms to a point and breaks off . |
| 12 | I imagined they were old and slow reptiles , too far gone to chase a sprightly private detective around their pit , content just to chew placidly on a hunk of dead cow . |
| 13 | Younger by four years than his go-getting elder brother , Ryan was basically easygoing , with no driving ambitions , content just to get by . |
| 14 | ‘ I want tonight to last forever , ’ she murmured . |
| 15 | I want now to look more closely at how business operates and see if in that operation there are any lessons , ideas or strategies that might be the beginnings of the new direction for education . |
| 16 | In fairness to those whose questions come further down the Order Paper , I propose now to speed up a bit . |
| 17 | I propose simply to map out broad characteristics , though the analytical language of contrast tends to suggest categorical qualities which are unintended . |
| 18 | In contrast to such ‘ an increasing grammatization of discursive and textual operations ’ , analysts such as De Lauretis ( 1984 , p. 45 ) want instead to examine how cinema produces its specific effects on spectators through what is specific to images . |
| 19 | Some MEPs want ultimately to take over from the council the main responsibility for passing EC laws , while others want to concentrate on the right to appoint the European Commission . |
| 20 | Someone 's got ta come round I mean just to see where but I just I 'll ring , I 'll give you a buzz on Monday , I know you 're not there , you can say , well , I 'll see you again on Tuesday in English , perhaps you can arrange something then . |
| 21 | Well he 's taken us out when they 've been to bloody shop working and come back and wa I admitted that , but I mean just to go out for an evening . |
| 22 | All three pupils are now following A-level course work at Aquinas College , Stockport and hope eventually to go on to university . |
| 23 | And yes it erm I mean and therefore we would be reviewing current practices which is that erm you know the film is in the building , the cinema is open , the staff are there and we therefore show a film at four o'clock because there 's no extra charge for us doing so and we hope thereby to attract however many er patrons to see it . |
| 24 | There is quite a lot of X in coffee — probably' enough to affect directly our own enkephalin receptors — but whether it is the major stimulant remains to be seen . |
| 25 | Use the five steps and chart below to work out a reasonable estimate of the cost of rebuilding your home . |
| 26 | USAFM hope also to take on a series of former Desert Storm aircraft in the wake of recent retirements . |
| 27 | It is therefore ironic that the report which it unreservedly endorses and which appears in the same issue should perpetuate the thinking I seek here to expose as muddled and erroneous . |
| 28 | I pause here to point out that items such as dressings are available on prescription . |
| 29 | It 's a very difficult name at times to live up to I 'm sure because the word Hugh literally means mind or soul and it is important that we seek indeed to live up to what our names mean . |
| 30 | The following , recommended by the Law Society , is now widely used : In consideration of you today completing the purchase of we hereby undertake forthwith to pay over to Building Society the money required to redeem the mortgage/legal charge dated and to forward the redeemed mortgage/legal charge to you as soon as it is received by us from the Building Society . |