Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you advise me how to go about this and what bits I need . |
| 2 | Naturally , professional statisticians have considerable skill and experience on how to go about this and enjoy the challenge of participation , particularly if help is sought from an early stage . |
| 3 | At this time of year there was n't enough milk anywhere in the village to borrow for more than a few days . |
| 4 | The Collector , his mind too feverish to recollect for more than a moment what all this activity was about , became absorbed in the contemplation of this pariah dog . |
| 5 | It is wise to plan for this and to keep in mind the possibility of building up to having video installed in a percentage of the classrooms . |
| 6 | One is certainly not enough , when you consider the number of cars and drivers who use this stretch of motorway each day.It 's unwise for people tol have to drive for more than an hour and a half without taking a break . |
| 7 | Arguments then ensued as to who allowed other speakers to continue for more than their allotted time . |
| 8 | It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out . |
| 9 | Erm no I 'd like just to go through that if I can . |
| 10 | The third area I need to take you through is some erm typographical amendments to the resolutions that you have in front of you , so if you just bear with me I proposed to go through those and perhaps if you want to mark them on the sheets as I go through and if I 'm going too fast erm just wave . |
| 11 | Er then er S Sun that 's Saturday , then Sunday erm I er the surgeon wa was coming in about er lunch time , roundabout lunchtime , and I was expecting to go after that and prior to that , I did n't know she was coming , one of the nuns , it was i I was in the convent |
| 12 | But after a week of total failure to concentrate for more than a minute he had to acknowledge to himself that nothing was going right . |
| 13 | With apologies for not being a perfect speech , but without any apologies for the symptoms that I 'm suffering too , because you all need to know about that as well . |
| 14 | In an attempt to compensate for this and to represent what I can only assume is a minority interest for your readership , my entry consists of a substantial majority of jazzers . |
| 15 | Jay had never known it to work for more than weeks . |
| 16 | But I mean , I do n't think you need to worry about that cos I think got round that when they when they converted up to . |
| 17 | Er a well I do n't know , I feel that th there used to be something in that , that used to burn it up now what they call their top site and when they burned it they took all the acid out of it , and there used to be all yellow stuff come out the chimney and that , when they finished burn that was always red and the Germans used to come after that before the war , Second World War , they used to come after that and they used to reckon they make paintwork but now you done something else different with it and they use I tell you we used to give it the name of green oar or parites |
| 18 | Had he decided not to come after all or was he out on an urgent case ? |
| 19 | Jane found Algox the hardest job to bear of any that she 'd ever had . |
| 20 | Obviously interpreted your er But I think we 'll have to work towards that and I I agree Sue I think there 's two ways either saying , you know , we don we do it for everything , or |
| 21 | Having received many reports of disappointment with West Indian hotels that do n't live up to their high prices we would be interested to know of any that combine the following virtues : immediate access to unpolluted sea ; the possibility of snorkelling and windsurfing ; freedom from background music ; cotton sheets , with no polyester mixture ; edible food , and preferably , cottage-style accommodation . |
| 22 | To write like that and all . |
| 23 | I 'm sorry to write like this when you are so hard up yourself — Please do n't think I 'm bemoaning — but honestly this house is insupportable . |
| 24 | It is perfectly possible to communicate with little or no such similarity or else children would never learn their native tongue . |
| 25 | What moves me very deeply about primitive peoples is that they still attach an enormous importance to a certain kind of communication which we have lost ; and that is that they allow the being of the person they are with to communicate with more than words . |
| 26 | Well my feeling is that you know if yo if you 're car does n't run tinker with the carburettor and if it still is n't running right , tinker with something else , if you like , the fatal thing is to tinker with both because then you just do n't know what you 've got , and erm she 's been on , on this hormone replacement which is er er no big deal but , you know , hormones are |
| 27 | William Bellows , who was taken by Edmund Gosse to meet Hardy in June 1927 , reported Florence as saying : ‘ My husband used to write in this when sketching out the plots of his novels . |
| 28 | There are two basic assumptions that have to be made if we wish to infer from this that X causes Y . |
| 29 | That Peel , leading the Tory opposition , recognised that the Whigs ' Bill would in the short run unite the middle and lower classes in support of the Government is one thing ; to infer from this that Grey and his team deliberately set out both to counter the threat of revolution and to do so in a way which would ultimately isolate the working class , quite another . |
| 30 | While Professor R. T. McKenzie was right to argue that the common purpose of winning elections and of maintaining a government in power imposes or produces an almost identical power structure in the parties , it is wrong to infer from this that the atmosphere within the parties is the same . |