Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was there Chant wanted to go now , but there were new signs of atrophy in his body with every heart-beat . |
| 2 | PAVILION RECORDS ( PEARL ) — I am , I hope allowed to cheat here because , Pearl comes just above mid-price at £10.50 . |
| 3 | But his policy positions , as far as they can be pinned down , seem designed to offend almost everybody . |
| 4 | Unless radical action is taken , British cities seem poised to become yet more turbulent , brutalized , and trouble-torn . |
| 5 | It has n't been mentioned , no , these things sometimes get delayed do n't they ? |
| 6 | ‘ Many people who get divorced do n't find anything better and really wish they had n't … |
| 7 | Yeah but they get served in the end see , by the end of the night they get served do n't they , you know ? |
| 8 | Now you 're much closer to the pointed end than I am , I do n't sell anything , I 'm just a cost , and if you do n't make a profit I get fired do n't I ? |
| 9 | As he once put it wryly to a friend , ‘ the guys who have the brains ca n't get elected , and the guys who get elected do n't always have the brains ’ . |
| 10 | While I agree heartily with Cameron McNeish 's praise of the Scottish Mountaineering Club volume ‘ The Corbetts ’ ( May issue , p.58 ) , I feel constrained to point out that Stac Pollaidh and Suilven are not Corbetts , as he records . |
| 11 | It seems almost a pity to subject these lively fancies to the stern test of verisimilitude , but I feel constrained to point out three facts . |
| 12 | But there is no issue for which simply to deduce from socially prescribed principles combined with factual propositions would be anything but a mechanical conformity ; I know why I should do the prescribed thing only if , at least at my moments of fullest awareness from other viewpoints , I feel moved to do so . |
| 13 | ‘ … considered that a casual with a skilled trade may have his efficiency seriously impaired by being required to break stones and may , in order to avoid this task , feel compelled to sleep out or to commit some other offence against the law ; that it is impossible to expect the officer in charge of a casual ward to discriminate between men for whom the task would or would not be suitable , and that this would lay him open to accusations of favouritism or vindictiveness ; that the task could rarely be made a profitable one , and is repugnant to the class of workers most liable to unemployment , being looked upon by them as having penal associations and as entirely deterrent . ’ ) |
| 14 | The exact time varies enormously ; some small girls are already devoted to their make-believe babies , while for others it is merely a charade they feel compelled to act out . |
| 15 | IS N'T it strange how the moment interest rates go up banks feel compelled to push up their rates ? |
| 16 | Go for the one that you feel compelled to pick up . |
| 17 | They feel compelled to do so . |
| 18 | Theorists feel compelled to do so for two reasons . |
| 19 | Equally it must be understood that there are many farmers who perpetrate these changes with genuine personal regret , but who feel compelled to do so by economic circumstances . |
| 20 | We may not yet be a vigilante state but there is no doubt that more people feel compelled to mete out their own justice rather than entrust it to the police and courts . |
| 21 | Absolutely , so they feel involved do n't they ? |
| 22 | Suppose you sometimes feel tempted to drive faster than the allowed speed limit , perhaps because you are in a hurry or because you decide that it is quite safe to do so and that the speed limit is unnecessary . |
| 23 | May we draw on God 's power to strengthen us when we feel tempted to do wrong . |
| 24 | ‘ I feel dressed to sail off on a luxury cruise . ’ |
| 25 | Without ever themselves having had as much as a picture postcard to sell , they feel entitled to criticise both the dead peer and his widow for having disposed of some of the contents of Althorp . |
| 26 | But Conservative Euro-rebels remain pledged to fight on against the treaty . |
| 27 | ‘ I bin asked to take over the choir like , for the concert , play the organ … . ’ |
| 28 | I 've arranged to drive out and have a word with the Master tomorrow morning . |
| 29 | Perhaps , perhaps they 've arranged to go somewhere on Saturday . |
| 30 | for me , so , I 've arranged to go back to the dentist then . |