Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] and [art] " in BNC.

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1 I would think so and the particularly the folk living in the towns consciously tended to use less Orcadian you know they they 'd more dealings with folk from outside the islands for one thing and folk come on in off ships and so on .
2 In this situation , some models will run out of RPM and the blades may slow down and the motor begin to labour .
3 The blood leakage will dissipate eventually and the blurring will go away , but then there 'll be another leak , and another , and every time it happens it brings me closer to going blind one day . ’
4 The troll was out to lunch , the sky did not fall in and the three pals arrived without mishap at the Gruff 's house .
5 Sometime , perhaps tonight , the roof would fall in and the house would collapse .
6 The challenge began last year when the Americans could not win here and the English could not win in America .
7 Despite some degree of battlefield success at Dezful — in the course of which Iraq captured a number of British-made Chieftain tanks which it put on display before foreign journalists at al-Amarah in the central sector just as Iraq 's own armour , mainly Russian in origin , was gathering for further fighting at Ahwaz — Dezful did not fall either and the Iranians were far from having been routed .
8 When the regulatory playing field is levelled after 1992 , the mist should clear somewhat and the pattern of derivative trading for the rest of the decade may begin to emerge .
9 Held , allowing the appeal , that although there was a strong presumption against interpreting a statute as taking away the right of silence of an accused person it was the plain intention of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 that the powers of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office should not come to an end when the person under investigation had been charged ; and that , accordingly , she was entitled to compel the applicant to answer questions on pain of commission of a criminal offence under section 2(13) of the Act of 1987 if he did not do so and no caution was appropriate ( post , pp. 68F–H , 81C–F , 83E , 86H ) .
10 He did not do so and the fire spread and damaged the plaintiff 's property .
11 But cash from the sale of licensed goods , cosmetics , sunglasses and perfume like C'est La Vie , did not flood in and the company has never made a profit .
12 They 'll grow up and a little bit 'll come from somewhere over there .
13 I mean I 'm sure it 's the same claw cos it 's never grown back you see , when he 's had it cut off but what the vet was hoping was that the claw would grow back and the the top of of the tissue , see what I mean ?
14 For geographers — who span the conventional ( and now archaic ) dichotomy between the natural and the environmental sciences — all of these aspects need to be woven together to anticipate the likely spatial patterns of the effects of massive change , the redistributions in trade , health and wealth which they will bring about and the ‘ knock on ’ effects these consequences themselves will have on society and the environment .
15 After one minute approximately , the lamp should light again and the process repeat indefinitely .
16 A 1956 collector 's item — the first polythene road cone , a dud one so long and thin it could n't stay still and a Korean cone found floating in Swanage harbour .
17 He heard the car splash in and the doors slam .
18 They kept the doors locked all the time now , and on a bolt and chain , and Big Nan had sewn Velcro round all the edges of the curtains so they 'd stick together and no one be able to peer in .
19 It was open and I could see inside and the closed loo door took on the semblance of the Berlin Wall .
20 but we let it run over and the sugar the hob and it , there 's , there 's a chunk out of it
21 Part of her was wishing they would hurry up and the other part was hoping they 'd take forever !
22 No cos we was my friend Pat said to me oh she said , cos everyone have always come up to my house Christmas night , I 've always had the mess and that , she said oh she said , cos we 've got a house now come down to me , I said oh great , I can clean up and every Boxing morning it 's always been the same hangover , fucking
23 Bullets for those that could n't keep up and a fifth of a loaf a day for those that could .
24 Like many other such dreams , this one did not work out and the reason would seem to be that same old American resistance to working seriously in FI — it happened with Roger Penske , it happened with Parnelli as it was later to happen with Karl Haas .
25 As history showed , despite the engineering skill deployed and the excellence of the final product , the sums did n't work out and the whole company fell .
26 Soon , that string will run out and the balloon tug itself free and be lost .
27 Work on trials will begin immediately and the system will become fully operational between 1995 and 1997 under the current plan .
28 Once institutional and staff development plans have been consulted , the identification of potential secondees should become easier and the objectives of the secondment clearer .
29 I also get a couple of good standby wines for friends and neighbours who might drop in and a super-cheap bottle or two of red ( try the supermarket £1.99 offers ) to make some delicious , warming mulled wine .
30 It was the beginning of these automatics , you 've seen these photos on the , on the television where these welders come down and they go in like this , well these was the beginning of that sort of thing because it was worked with a motor and a cam which er er the cam went round and it 'd lift the arm up and when it was went past the , the knuckle it 'd drop down and the speed you them out or the speed you sent them out how fast the arm would go up and down , and that was stitch welding .
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