Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv prt] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stop off twice to buy food . |
| 2 | Yesterday you had the strange experience of having someone bend over backwards to return your hat to you because you 'd left it behind somewhere and then five minutes later someone stole it . |
| 3 | Paul starts to move the boats to the top of the falls whilst I run on ahead to talk to the police at the top of the falls with the nice man from the Northern Echo . |
| 4 | So it was that I set out laboriously to catalogue the very schema of my own sanity , to list exhaustively the full range of my personal habits . |
| 5 | That 's far below our eyrie — I go down there to scavenge . |
| 6 | ‘ As you can see from the state of this place , I have someone call in regularly to keep an eye on it . |
| 7 | Some sociologists , strongly influenced by American sources , became converted to ethnomethodology , which set out completely to recast the objectives of sociological enquiry ( see pp. 94–7 ) . |
| 8 | Unlike traditional sales where you wait until you get round there to tell them what the price is you have you have to er tell them what er the price on the phone . |
| 9 | You 'll find the new Brother KH864 at your local dealer now — make sure you get along there to give it a test drive ! ! |
| 10 | So instead you set out either to strengthen your position or to undermine his . |
| 11 | And others who ring up just to talk , and they feel much better , and they cry and they get distressed . |
| 12 | Their house , Carceri , is a complex world of ancient stone galleries and courtyards , with weird ( and scheduled ) spiral staircases that you go up only to find yourself on the floor below the one you started on — an old dungeon perched among the treetops on a hillside overlooking the city , which they found by a miracle , and had converted . |
| 13 | What happens if , as you move in close to grab his arm , he suddenly kicks you hard in the groin , and then stabs you as you double over in agony ? |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman might reflect on the fact that those Scotsmen who come down here to represent English constituencies are the best of the Scotsmen , who choose to come down here to represent one of the 523 constituencies in this country . |
| 15 | You come down here to see me and you beat up my son . ’ |
| 16 | … We bend over backwards to do the thing [ properly ] … but what happens in practice — do we mean it ? |
| 17 | But he also noted that in the light of the extent of fossil fuel burning , deforestation and population growth , " we may need radical and risky geo-engineering schemes to muddle through while we figure out how to cure the problem fundamentally " . |
| 18 | We go on now to look at the importance of the dialogue , and the problems which can occur when communication breaks down . |
| 19 | We go up there to get cheap cigarettes , petrol and groceries . ’ |
| 20 | As the mum of a 12-year-old son , we are both learning as we go along how to use the Amstrad 5086 , my son concentrating more or less on games and school related programs , myself for the odd game , but mainly word-processing ( I have just written my first book ) , genealogy and cheating on addressing the Christmas cards . |
| 21 | Supposed to start at six , but we go in earlier to get stuff ready . |
| 22 | At its centre stands labourism coterminous with the Labour Party , from which we move out successively to trade unionism , the working class and finally bourgeois society . |
| 23 | So when we come up here to make a presentation let's put aside at the moment the content of what we actually say what do we what do we need to think about ? |
| 24 | She nodded , and they set off again to find a Venice few tourists saw . |
| 25 | They set off early to beat the traffic , and instead of blossom there were dead leaves on the pavement and a thin white mould of frost . |
| 26 | Well erm you know we 've had a lot of people come to us and say we 've qualified sales by telephone , I do n't present that a problem with that , but we have discovered people have not listened to what we 've been saying , even on the training course , when they go out there to sell the space they keep making appointments to go and see people to talk about advertising . |
| 27 | they sweep up tidily to pass the time |
| 28 | Had they come out here to talk about the murders ? |
| 29 | It is one of the many ironies in our provision for old people that we offer the fit elderly cheap transport ( which they take up enthusiastically to visit their relatives ) but make no provision to enable the relatives of the frail housebound to visit them . |
| 30 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |