Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There 's just this , it 's just really funny cos I sound really wrecked yeah and I say look hello , hello look Norwegian people I just want to apologize for all this mess and all this crap on this tape but I mean yeah like you know , fuck it
2 Gastric varices are particularly difficult to diagnose during active bleeding .
3 Moreover , a certain prominent Liberal Democrat candidate in both elections found energy to spare for some strenuous Christian Aid , thus earning the gratitude and admiration of his fellow church members .
4 We had to wait for all three of them to finish before getting it back .
5 We do not need to wait for new efficient technology : as Stewart Boyle described in ‘ More work for less energy ’ ( New Scientist , 5 August 1989 ) , the technology exists to take the first step towards the targets we have set to save energy and fossil fuel , and to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions .
6 something else that could be quite actually misleading might sleep , be very sleepy , difficult to wake , so if you 've got the baby and you think your baby 's due for a feed and it did n't take very much at the last feed , you ca n't wake it up you should n't think oh well I 'll have to wait for another four hours , beginning to get worried so if the baby 's difficult to wake if it 's difficult to feed not sucking very well if the baby 's cold to touch and then there 's something which is very , very misleading , these babies can have bright red cheeks and bright red hands and feet and if you look at them you think oh they must be warm because they 're red
7 Apart from the lugger and the recovery of the bomber , we have to wait for three other things .
8 The usual advice is to wait for three menstrual cycles to go by , which is roughly the same as three months .
9 Government policy does not explain why the organized networks only covered certain areas , or why the illicit trade declined in Kurunagala at the end of the nineteenth century , but continued to thrive for another fifteen years in the Low Country before suffering a similar decline .
10 She said , ‘ What am I going to wear for this old party tomorrow ?
11 This year they 're going to go for four thousand .
12 Faced with four alternative approaches to valuation — whether it should be based on capital values , rental values , maintenance costs or rebuilding costs — its choice was not to go for one of them , or even a mixture of two of them , but to go for all four of them .
13 The Government say that in all this , one of their main aims is to go for greater local accountability , er but this h people can hardly claim to know more about the community than the elected representatives , or more for example about educational or social service activities which can be relevant to police concerns and there are many local government member as enquiries have shown who can claim outside management and financial expertise .
14 He took to the front on the second lap and left Dave Milling , Woolsey Coulter , Phillip McCallen and Alan Irwin to go for second best .
15 As for Monica Seles , her desire to play at Wimbledon this year , coupled with the fact that she already has the Australian title under her belt , might be all the incentive that she needs to go for that Grand Slam this year , that same Grand Slam which she passed up last year with her refusal to play the British leg of the four majors .
16 Nonetheless , this is probably the best way to go for that first circuit whether or not you have any previous model flying experience .
17 Or do you strain every sinew to go for that elusive target set on a small plateau ?
18 So if you look at individuals making erm decisions about punishment or some decision where there 's a consequence or an element of risk , you 'll find that groups quite often tend to go for more extreme behaviour than any one of the individuals in the group .
19 Yeah we were and I did n't know how to go for this fifty one on the .
20 But is n't then the only option to go for this longer term one creation of a rich peasant economy ?
21 The text for the first term 's production will usually be selected for the purpose of getting a new group to work together rather than trying to go for detailed individual performances .
22 I mean there 's no reason because we have n't got men 's issues , because all issues are men 's issues , nobody expects a male Prime Minister to go for any particular issue , but why should we expect a woman Prime Minister to go particularly for certain issues ?
23 Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping .
24 ‘ She has to go for some more treatment , ’ Jack Foley said .
25 beautiful , we used to go for some lovely walks did n't we ?
26 Er I 'd like to go for some little light relief at this time of the day , and look at sources of supply .
27 Specifically , he notes that lenders like banks have an interest in the firm 's undertaking projects that carry little risk of default even if the expected return is low , whilst if it is true that shareholders in general hold diversified portfolios , they would want the firm to go for high expected returns .
28 The Army spokesman added : ‘ It was pointed out to the convoy that it would be madness to try to drive through that particular part of the road , but they pushed on . ’
29 Roderick Macdonald , QC , prosecuting , told the High Court the victim had tried to drive between two parked cars .
30 Indeed time itself seems alternately to scud and to suspend during those ten seconds .
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