Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They appeared to apologize for their pitiable weaknesses , instead of forming themselves into a counter attack . |
| 2 | Oddly , she felt less happy , less content , less well able to go about her daily business than she had in the three painful months of her sexual abstinence . |
| 3 | People continued to go about their daily lives , make their plans , take decisions , eat , drink , love , pray for a good harvest , pray for rain , in complete ignorance of the dramatic effect this far-off encounter would have on their lives . |
| 4 | Does the Minister agree that the best right for the people of the United Kingdom under any citizens charter would be the right to live and to go about their daily work without the continual threat of terrorism ? |
| 5 | The solution was a simple one : employ priests with the sole responsibility of singing the memorial requiems so as to allow the parish priests to go about their customary role of caring for the spiritual needs of the living . |
| 6 | Every time a Labour MP pairs with a Tory , leaving that Tory MP free to go about his other business commitments , most of them highly paid , that MP abstained from taking part in opposing this government 's policies . |
| 7 | Most of us believe that accidents always happen to someone else , which I suppose is how we are able to go about our everyday lives . |
| 8 | Further to my letter of 3 September 1992 , I am most grateful to you for your permission to borrow for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer the Slezer drawings of Edinburgh held by Edinburgh City Libraries , and shall be in touch with Miss McDougall about practical arrangements in due course . |
| 9 | She had been so busy with her dress house in Rome , coping with her designer , planning for the future and ensuring that everyone in the business was kept happy — each of which seemed a full-time job in itself — that she had hardly had time to spare for her three children , let alone her mother . |
| 10 | With less reliable means of reaching the station , with perhaps less requirement for haste , and less opportunity to understand the timetables or gauge time by any other means than the sun , these passengers used all the patience of the peasant to wait for their appropriate train . |
| 11 | And Elinor was just going to have to wait for her merciful release . |
| 12 | Even when she was tiny she had n't really thought of him that way , and when she was older , about thirteen , she had secretly been terribly proud in front of the other girls when Georg , who had never seemed to go through a spotty adolescent phase like other boys , used to wait for her outside school so that they could walk up the mountain road together . |
| 13 | I did n't have long to wait for my first recovery , because the next day a kid arrived at the house carrying the ghastly yellow-coated corpse of a starling . |
| 14 | Imagine — with Air Miles you do n't have to wait for your annual summer holidays to come around . |
| 15 | On the other , we have still to wait for our final adoption at the Second Coming ( Rom. 8:23 ) . |
| 16 | Deng Xiaoping managed to stay alive and did not wish to wait for his own death before being given any credit . |
| 17 | He can indulge himself with whichever other women attract him , but you 're to remain for his exclusive use , keeping yourself unencumbered , ready and available for whenever he has a whim to renew the relationship ? ’ |
| 18 | He himself removed the aspidistra and put a match to the fire before departing to see about their frugal meal . |
| 19 | Elizabeth Mowbray was baffled by the girl 's refusal to see the matter in its true light and more than a little troubled by what she was beginning to see as something other than a passing infatuation . |
| 20 | The tunic fitted over a loose linen shirt and was belted snugly by the sash that Riven was coming to see as his own . |
| 21 | In the first place , we all need to mourn for our own sins and for the negative contribution we bring into the world . |
| 22 | Simple aluminium lean-to conservatories start from under £1,000 , but you can spend up to £25,000 if you decide to go for something complete with double glazing , brick walls and decorative finials . |
| 23 | I think it was the realisation of his disability that decided the man to go for him first . |
| 24 | Now presumably somebody in government or Whitehall has just taken a decision to , to go for it all in one year , I do n't know why , I , I do n't suppose we 're told why , but the , the consequence of the decision is actually going to be that people in Shropshire , our clients and social services are going to pay for that decision , either through paying charges for services that they now get for nothing , or by getting less services , er , and this does n't seem to be in line with the government 's stated aim of , of targeting money where it 's most needed . |
| 25 | ‘ And he has all the support I can give him to go for it next year . ’ |
| 26 | You 're ready to go for your first sail . |
| 27 | SENIOR Tories in Cheltenham were trying yesterday to persuade Mr John Taylor to remain as their prospective parliamentary candidate after his failure to become the first black Tory MP . |
| 28 | The two books I have chosen to compare for my English open study are ‘ To kill a Mockingbird ’ by Harper Lee and ‘ The Disappearance ’ by Rosa Guy . |
| 29 | These cries and messages cause many unnecessary deaths but yet , the families of these children continued to search for their long lost children . |
| 30 | So an urgent appeal is being launched in Britain and in other countries asking people to search for their old slide-rules in attics , in schools and in lab store rooms . |