Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The willow is cut between January and March , left in water until it starts to sprout and then peeled and dried . |
| 2 | The referee has to see and correctly interpret extremely fast actions . |
| 3 | Though she wants to work and often plans to after marriage … her home and children always come first . |
| 4 | With superstars Kathleen Battle and Itzhak Perlman lined up to give us just over an hour of Bach arias , one has to accept that almost whatever one says , artists of this calibre act upon collectors like the proverbial honeypot to the bee . |
| 5 | Cos you , here he needs to know as well , do n't you ? |
| 6 | think , cos she really wants to come but like |
| 7 | Miranda wants to know as soon as you 're allowed visitors . |
| 8 | One has to remember that well into the nineteenth century British identity was predicated first of all of the English . |
| 9 | Even if this persuades Congress to agree to the 22 JSTARS the Pentagon wants to buy and also helps the company to export the aircraft , Grumman will still have to cut its workforce further . |
| 10 | William says that he wants to win and then hopefully look towards the world championship and then the next Europeans … it 's been a good year so far so he hopes it ends like that anyway |
| 11 | As a TO one wants to do as well as one can , and the paradox is that the better one does in a sense the worse it is for the voluntary movement , who should be persuaded to do the maximum rather than the minimum . |
| 12 | bores him , but he wo n't and then it pulls me , I want to do what the majority wants to do and then he do n't and I feel guilty cos I think oh I should be with him , but |
| 13 | The writer of this book has to confess that so far he has been so hidebound by tradition that he has not yet brought himself to write key-signatures for the horns , but he admits that the only argument in favour of this is that the lack of signature acts as a guide to the conductor 's eye in spotting the horn parts in the score . |
| 14 | As effective leader of the Scottish Labour Party , he has to weld that frequently fissiparous organisation together , to set his stamp on its policies for Scotland , and to campaign against the Government , adopting a high profile for himself and the opposition . |
| 15 | In other words , you dial it up , examine an index for the information it has to offer and then access what you want . |
| 16 | Channel four is where the serious overdrive starts to happen and so Lo , Mid , Hi and overdrive controls are well to the fore . |
| 17 | I get the impression that Mr Ataie has decided what he wants to say and then created characters to fit his theme . |
| 18 | Malcolm Crosby says Oxford was always a hard place to come and get a result and he wants to make that so again |
| 19 | I want to support him , I am doing so , even if he refuses to acknowledge that just now because it 's easier for him to bear what has happened if he pretends it is me who is more broken than he . |
| 20 | And that 's why he says to sleep and then if she could n't get to sleep she could like sit up tonight so he could get some sleep instead . |
| 21 | if it happens to give or here , and it does nay get away right |
| 22 | But if anybody refuses to believe that about 270 B.C. Lycophron could say about the Romans : " And the fame of the race of my ancestors shall thereafter be exalted to the highest by their descendants who shall with their spears win the foremost crown of glory , obtaining the sceptre and monarchy of earth and sea " ( transl . |
| 23 | Words are in many ways the tools of thought ; they are what the individual uses to formulate as well as express his ideas . |
| 24 | So then , then it , allows to dance as well , and basically hardly anybody sits in that area until the club 's full anyway |
| 25 | At the time of severe intoxication the memory function of brain ceases to work and later there is a hole or blank in the memory , ( Perhaps " blankout " is a better term in order to avoid confusion with other forms of loss of consciousness such as faints or epileptic fits ) . |
| 26 | This inevitably leads to frequent and occasionally severe complications ( haemorrhage , infection , amputations of the glans , urethral fistula , and disastrous cosmetic results ) . |
| 27 | if put , put sample in , in er er at paragraph erm we said that it could be , we referred to paragraph two , two , three , this is the third paragraph I 've turn up on page a hundred and thirty six on claim sees to recover and then we say the premises , the claim is unlawful as being in breach of article eighty five , alternatively , unlawful in seeking to enforce agreements |
| 28 | It tends to happen if too high a potency ( that is , too strong a potency ) is given , and the symptoms are brought out or exteriorized rather too quickly for the body to handle comfortably . |
| 29 | Literary criticism has often taken precisely this assumption as its starting point , and has presumed that a literary text is not necessarily saying what it intends to say or even what it appears to say — hence the need for critical interpretation . |
| 30 | Yeah so imagine how you feel if you 've got another two role plays to do and then try and concentrate for two hours again . |