Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1980s , there has been a marked decline in the proportion of secondary students who gain the Sudan School Certificate which enables them to go on to higher education or enter the civil service . |
| 2 | There was nothing to go on at all . |
| 3 | Type Report on Yugoslav Spitfires by Peter Arnold in the April issue ( p70 ) evoked many memories for me and caused me to rummage around for some half-forgotten photos of nearly half a century ago , and there it was , Mk VcJK808 ‘ B ’ with yours truly in attendance . |
| 4 | D' ya want me to go round to that school and beat the crap out of them ? |
| 5 | ‘ But it does n't seem right for them to drive about like that , ’ said Sister Dew . |
| 6 | The nicest thing about Duckhurst Farm 's clear round afternoons is the atmosphere : they are meant to encourage horse and rider and the owners were happy for me to trot round for five minutes before we faced the first fence . |
| 7 | The easiest way I have found to assess the strength of this group of goals is to give individuals a single sheet of paper and to ask them to write down in five minutes what they hope to achieve in the next five years . |
| 8 | And , of course , the scientific approach through general laws and formulae has nothing to work on in this sort of context . |
| 9 | This was the essence of the problem : the press could only be managed by someone who knew their methods and who would not expect them to come round to Central Office to search for news . |
| 10 | I know I should n't really cos I should n't expect them to come back at all , but it annoys me when |
| 11 | My educational colleagues are a hard-bitten lot and I had not expected them to come out as complete ‘ quality ’ converts . |
| 12 | If you are encouraging them all the time to consider propositions or arguments and then what evidence has been marshalled in support and the like , then you want them to come out like that … . |
| 13 | They are generally thicker and harder-fired than wall tiles , to enable them to stand up to heavy wear without cracking . |
| 14 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |
| 15 | So if , if you are a poor peasant you are thinking hold on the Party expects me to stand up to this landlord and accuse him of this this and this , actually point a finger at him when there is a chance that , you know , the Kuomintang is , is twenty miles away and they , I know they 've come into other villages as they come back , m of land to peasants.s in the form of land |
| 16 | It visited chiefs , and worked through them to find out about local resources , tools , apprenticeship patterns and market locations . |
| 17 | Nothing to worry about with that . |
| 18 | Nothing to worry about at all . ’ |
| 19 | I think Madam yeah she complains Madam of er scratches to her arms and bruises to her upper arms where he allegedly grabbed hold of her erm and that really is it , nothing to worry about at all . |
| 20 | The storm 's blowing over and you 've nothing to worry about except fifteen years inside . ’ |
| 21 | We can not simply allow ourselves to cash in on private sector industry at the expense of the many unemployed and low-paid whose living standards will inevitably decline as a result of the spiralling costs of wholesale privatisation . |
| 22 | It is these experiences which have prompted me to set down in this book some of the lessons I have learnt over the years . |
| 23 | A plant yes , because if you 're solving problems you want somebody to come up with some good ideas to get you out of your rut . |
| 24 | But you also need them in your team , because if you 're trying to solve a problem that is difficult , or what 's called a messy problem , we 'll come back to nice messy problems in a minute , you need somebody to come up with some good ideas , some ways of solving it . |
| 25 | You want somebody to come up with some divergent ways of thinking . |
| 26 | She 'd only got five minutes in which to change out of this crumpled dress and fix her make-up before interviewing yet another applicant for the job of a daily nanny to help her look after the twins . |
| 27 | Rehearsing the likely interview with a friend and asking them to look out for these points can help . |
| 28 | ‘ We wanted everyone to look out on green fields and I fought , so hard , to stop any high rise buildings . |
| 29 | Their closeness was less due to their nearness in age — though with only eighteen months between them it had been easy for them to grow up with similar interests and shared confidences — than to the fact that neither of their parents had ever made much of them . |
| 30 | This system contains two neutron stars orbiting each other , and the energy they are losing by the emission of gravitational waves is causing them to spiral in toward each other . |