Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after a bit my curiosity got the better of me and I spread my fingers slowly to peep through . |
| 2 | ‘ I missed London desperately but I needed my clients here to sit up and and take notice of me and prove to them that I am fit , healthy and looking good again . |
| 3 | I turned round in the tent mouth and sat down with my feet outside to take off my boots . |
| 4 | I 've got to find my keys now to get in . |
| 5 | It would have been my job anyway to make as little as possible of it , but it certainly was n't difficult to do because nobody seemed that bothered , ’ he says . |
| 6 | why was it my job always to go in pick them up and . |
| 7 | I have to bend my head forward to squeeze in . |
| 8 | I turn my head sideways to see how I look with my ears showing , but I ca n't see proper . |
| 9 | When a drover 's or farmer 's beasts went missing , they were liable to find their way into rogues ' hiding-places such as the deep cleft of the Devil 's Beef Tub near the source of the River Tweed above Moffat , where encircling hills seemed , according to Sir Walter Scott , to be ‘ laying their heads together to shut out the daylight from the dark hollow space between them ’ . |
| 10 | While the two aircraft commanders get their heads together to sort out the best approach to the problem we have been set , the two pilots sort out the flying side of life . |
| 11 | Nearly 150 heads of state , including most of the countries of the industrialized West , are putting their heads together to discuss how to curb the production of greenhouse gases , how to slow the depletion of the ozone layer , and how to stop the deforestation of the Amazonian rain forests . |
| 12 | ‘ Look , ’ Forester said urgently , and Carson could imagine his knuckles going white as he gripped the payphone receiver hard in an attempt to get his point across , ‘ my chance at having a kid 's been ruined , and the police and the government have got their heads together to cover up for the killer . ’ |
| 13 | He 's forgiven because it 's in their essence never to hold back , and all their pent-up frustration is , if anything , a guiding focus for their supercharged spirit . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal is a very busy court which has to ration its time and manage its business carefully to avoid unacceptably long delays in the determination of appeals . |
| 15 | Finally , Buzz stifled her feelings enough to ask calmly , ‘ Do the girls know about this ? ’ |
| 16 | She turned her head quickly to stare out of the window . |
| 17 | The police now hope to broadcast their video nationally to ram home the dangers of driving fast in fog . |
| 18 | HARRISONS & Crosfield must really dislike being classified as an overseas trader if it is willing to go through the complex process of changing its listing only to end up as a miscellaneous industrial . |
| 19 | So she gave up , and sat between the vines in the hot sun , alternately sleeping and working her way through the dusty volumes of Peregrine Pickle , bound in crimson and gold leather , with real bookworms making agitated forays from their dark crannies into the heat and light across the extraordinary scenes where Smollett 's elderly ladies retained their urine indefinitely to put out putative fires , or sweetened their foul breaths with violet cachous to deceive desired young lovers . |
| 20 | Nigel was looking forward to the occasion and Gina had promised to be especially nice and polite as long as she could have one of her friends there to make up a foursome . |
| 21 | And , with recruitment and turnover of staff , the company should examine its procedures thoroughly to find out whether its inability to recruit skilled people or reduce its high turnover rates could be the result of bad management practice rather than the location . |
| 22 | It was some time before she could gather her forces sufficiently to stand up and rest her hands on the chill white plaster of the window embrasure . |
| 23 | This Australian woman was admitted to a nursing home by her relatives because of a heart condition , but managed to keep a journal , and organise her life afresh to move out to her own flat , before writing about life on the inside . |
| 24 | I even took its number just to prove how professional I was , not that I had any idea how it could help . |
| 25 | Knotting on the matching pareo , she made a mental note to telephone them as soon as she collected her wits enough to work out the time in the UK . |
| 26 | Frozen in shock for a few seconds , she recovered her wits sufficiently to let out an outraged scream , and to catapult into a kneeling position , grabbing the bedspread to cover herself . |
| 27 | The glass is put into their mouths as they whirl around in the shadows and lights of the torches and they chew and swallow it down — showing it in their mouths — putting out their tongues afterwards to prove either that the tongue is not cut or that the mouth is empty . |
| 28 | She lifted her hand and touched his cheek , still damp where the tears had tracked , and bit her lip hard to hold back her own tears . |
| 29 | How he admired her ability just to walk out , disappear , leave everything and everyone . |
| 30 | But she had n't needed this reminder of their time together to bring back other , painful recollections . |