Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , you know you know as you 're going down the corridor before you get to the doors to go down the next set of stairs , I mean in O S D , the last one is er for the P C that does all the man er you know all the duties and things like that , and in his office there 's a great big board with all the vehicles on , and the key 's hung up at the end and who 's got 'em out , and the bottom one is that green van , because he went up and picked 'em up , when I was there . |
| 2 | I am not sure if Sir Henry Wood conducted it , for at that time he seemed to conduct only the first item of a concert , and then ceded the podium to Basil Cameron . |
| 3 | This is a tricky exercise , but easier if you keep your glove at arm level , shield the bird from the wind with your body , and do n't try to jump down the last foot or two , and so jar the bird . |
| 4 | By the way , how did Pam get to know perhaps the second most powerful man on earth ? |
| 5 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 6 | ‘ There have been a number of occasions in the past when stories have appeared in the press saying what the figures are going to be in one or two days ’ time … but when someone quotes exactly the figure which is going to come out the next day it is hard to believe they just made an inspired guess . |
| 7 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 8 | These all turned out to be negative and the examining doctor decided to take rectal samples when she returned for her results as he felt she would be unlikely to come back a third time . |
| 9 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 10 | Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again . |
| 11 | It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit . |
| 12 | Sharp was very excited , and asked Kimber to come back the next day to play the tunes , while he wrote them down . |
| 13 | In the end it was Mary who had to calm Martin down , reassure him and promise to come back the next day . |
| 14 | And then you 'll be able to work out a twentieth or an eighteenth or a fiftieth or a quarter . |
| 15 | Now they had to work out the 24th number . |
| 16 | He started to work out the next stage . |
| 17 | If you know any two of the above variables , it is easy to work out the third . |
| 18 | His luck — and he would have a lot of luck ( which he acknowledged generously and constantly ) — was to meet here the first of many teachers who set him on his way . |
| 19 | Well I suppose if you want to work then the first one is |
| 20 | Stroud grants that if we want to know how a third person can know the nature of reality , we might carry out a psychological investigation of his methods of information processing , and then compare the results of his reasoning with known facts . |
| 21 | In addition , the hospital will rely on a high-wind turbine to provide around a fifth of its power ; it will be enveloped in a plastic membrane to prevent heat loss ; a computer programme will enable it to make the most efficient use of power from various sources ( gas , oil , electricity , wind ) depending on fluctuations in cost and availability ; and heat exchangers and an on-site incinerator will recycle heat . |
| 22 | Listing the institutions which had contributed to the lamentable performance of ‘ UK plc ’ , Morgan went on to lambast Oxford University ( ‘ dons caught in a timewarp ’ ) , the Church of England ( ‘ the enterprise culture is an alien concept to the established Church ’ ) , and Whitehall ( ‘ our vast body of state employees who do not have to worry where the next pay cheque is coming from ’ ) . |
| 23 | Another restless night followed , and she determinedly settled down to work again the next morning , concentrating hard on the illustrations so that not even a tiny corner of her mind was free to think about Julius . |
| 24 | However , when Raymond Plant of Southampton University wrote a Fabian Tract on the subject , he chose to emphasise not the third element in the French Revolutionary triad but rather the third element in T.H. Marshall 's triad of civil , political and social citizenship . |
| 25 | Often books will have a list of different places ; the convention is to choose only the first . |
| 26 | They were both of them talking in these high and ceremonious terms , Cadfael suspected , in order to smooth away the first sore moments , and give Sub-Prior Herluin time to master his chagrin , and achieve a graceful retreat . |
| 27 | Lies applied by summons to set aside the fourth party notice served on them and succeeded in their application . |
| 28 | I 'm not saying I chose an affair expressly to ward off the 30th birthday blues , but my age and stage contributed more than mere chance . |
| 29 | Wheelchair athlete Ian Hayden from Sutton Courtenay near Abingdon overcame an arm injury to pick up a second silver medal at the Paralympic Games in Barcelona . |
| 30 | We loaded the first two into the trailer , and were heading a few yards further on to pick up a third canister when we noticed that the enemy fire was now being directed at our part of the cornfield . |