Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She reversed in a reckless sweep , scraping the Range Rover with a hideous scream of metal , then tore off down the hairpin bends of the drive , blinking away tears furiously to see where she was going . |
| 2 | It is for the HVS–E1 climber that the crag has most to offer though , and a short tour along the edge taking in the following climbs will not disappoint . |
| 3 | Despite the lack of wind , over the past hour a swell had built beyond the reef — a strange , almost oily swell that rose in long humps only to collapse back on itself as if exhausted by the effort . |
| 4 | She needs only to run close to the form which saw her finish second to multiple scorer Kassab over course and distance last month to turn this contest into a procession . |
| 5 | Split rings enough to position along each vertical row of tape , and spaced according to the size of the finished pleat ( e.g. , every 20cm ( 8in ) for a 10cm ( 4in ) pleat ) . |
| 6 | They very kindly drop in shade cards and patterns for her and Mrs Critten has only to pick up the telephone and they are there to help . |
| 7 | One has only to look around to see Labour government in action in London . |
| 8 | Leonard has only to play effectively to win a Test place against the All Blacks in the second international in Wellington on Saturday week . |
| 9 | They may suck on it until it dissolves sufficiently to swallow rather than chew it and so meal-times take a very long time . |
| 10 | This does not mean that the person needs necessarily to go faster , but that they organize their time more effectively . |
| 11 | I 've kept him informed and he has just to get on with his job . |
| 12 | CLT has still to make up its mind . |
| 13 | Yet somehow the message has still to get through to British Rail that the communication of travel information is no longer a luxury , to be fed in titbits to grateful passengers . |
| 14 | Election Focus:A Hung Parliament : In a quagmire of coalition Robin Lodge , Diplomatic Correspondent , looks abroad to see how other countries cope with pacts , backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning |
| 15 | There 's also a 48bhp , 1398cc diesel engine , but VW has yet to decide when to introduce it to the UK , although September 1991 looks the most likely time . |
| 16 | What has yet to become an accepted methodology in the study of public administration is a perception of organizations , including those in the public sector , as being themselves political systems.l Organization theory , drawing primarily as ever on evidence from private firms and corporations , offers political interpretations of the internal structures and decisionmaking of large-scale organizations which the study of public administration has yet to take up in any systematic manner ( Walsh et al. |
| 17 | ‘ But it has yet to filter through to the more expensive properties . ’ |
| 18 | IBM has yet to say when the new operating system will ship , but users will be able to tie in the PowerPC , providing a single operating system from the desktop through departmental servers to highly-parallel enterprise servers . |
| 19 | Ally McCoist 's fitness will determine who plays up front and yesterday Roxburgh said that the improvement in the player 's hamstring injury was such that he would now be ‘ disappointed ’ if the scorer of 41 goals for his club this season did not play on the ground that has yet to give up a goal to Scotland since they became tenants at Ibrox . |
| 20 | The left has yet to wake up to the new politics as played by the Prime Minister . |
| 21 | Significantly , the Aviation Museums Association of Australia had applied to the New South Wales Heritage Council in 1990 to have the aircraft protected by State heritage legislation but eight months later it has yet to receive even an acknowledgement from the Council . |
| 22 | He has the size to make a chaser but has yet to fill out . |
| 23 | The FBI has yet to explain why he would have needed another copy when he already had one . |
| 24 | But he has yet to explain publicly how traces of the drug Methandianone were found in a urine sample taken on July 15 . |
| 25 | Digital Systems , a government contractor , has yet to explain how t will succeed where Opus failed . |
| 26 | What kind of slump is it when England 's most expensive striker has yet to go more than two games without a goal ? |
| 27 | Chorus Systemes SA minority stockholder Unix System Labs has yet to state clearly what it intends doing with Chorus ' technology . |
| 28 | Unlike some of its competitors , Bull says it has yet to work out whether or not Posix compatibility for proprietary systems is anything more than a marketing gimmick , and so it has not yet embarked on the expensive process of adapting the GCOS operating systems to comply with Posix . |
| 29 | She 's full of sly ways and has yet to work off her debts to me . ’ |
| 30 | Chairman Murray has yet to comment publicly on the situation , but the Roker staff clearly want the issue resolved quickly . |