Example sentences of "[pron] and [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's face it , every man has the dilemma of wanting to be with someone and yet wanting to be on his own . |
| 2 | She was ten years older than me and already married to Jens , himself the youngest son of a neighbouring farmer , without property of his own . |
| 3 | She would then speak as if talking to herself , but what she said was aimed at me and usually struck to the core of my being , so that I was stunned into silence … |
| 4 | The Ford slowed down in front of them and slowly came to a halt , blocking the entire road . |
| 5 | However , most boards tended to extract material when it suited them and rarely adhered to the time-scale or suggestions for different kinds of activity . |
| 6 | He was polishing glasses and he held them up to the light to check them and thereby seemed to be ignoring Maidstone completely . |
| 7 | After the two pictures for Leone , Van Cleef stayed in Europe to make pale imitations of them and only returned to Hollywood in 1970 for El Condor which unwisely made him a sympathetic character . |
| 8 | The initial setting up could be carried out by them and then circularised to the nearest branches some time before September in order for the most capable branch to make an offer for the franchise . |
| 9 | Well I would suggest that you record them and then listen to them . |
| 10 | What has been attempted in this chapter has been the clarification that so far the traditional values of catholic nationalism are still dominant among the Roman catholics of Ireland , even if they are severely contested by a significant minority from among them and lukewarmly subscribed to by a further significant minority . |
| 11 | And when you 're about to complete the C C Q you must make it clear that the information given to you and subsequently transferred to the C C Q is in strictest confidence . |
| 12 | ‘ If Gebrec was upset or worried about something and just wanted to be alone to think things over , ’ said Jack , ‘ he might have gone up to the belvedere , or down by the river where we went yesterday to do our painting . ’ |
| 13 | That 's that 's one thing , but is finding the tenth root of something and then raising to the power six , or raising something to the power six and then finding the sa the tenth root , is that the same as finding the fifth root and cubing it or cubing it and finding the fifth root . |
| 14 | And if Germany is destined to become one and inevitably rise to a position of leadership in Europe , let us seriously consider the sceptics ' view that it should at least not happen in our generation . |
| 15 | In view of the stamp duty implications , the wife should consider taking the conveyance herself and subsequently conveying to herself and the new husband . |
| 16 | And the woman in her picture , with her Victorian gown : had she pissed herself and calmly waited to be changed ? |
| 17 | Over a period of time , it 's the meetings to begin with , but if you could then reach a stage where she could sort most problems out herself and only came to you when necessary . |
| 18 | And he bou he bought me this top and he bought me a , a polo neck and bought me a C D and then we went out to supper and then we went to a pub and everything and erm , you know , had a really decent conversation with him and just talking to him makes me think , you know , and it dawns on me that he 's just a big he 's just a big child and he 's not , he 's never grown , he 's not , you 're not gon na grow up . |
| 19 | the driving by the Policyholder of any motor car not belonging to him and not hired to him under a Hire Purchase Agreement . |
| 20 | Philby remained bitter towards Burgess , whose defection had thrown suspicion on him and ultimately led to his unmasking . |
| 21 | She seemed insubstantial , fleshless , a long way off , — while the kitchen seemed to close in on him and then recede to the accompaniment of a thumping in his head like a primitive drumbeat . |
| 22 | You will say I ought to have informed you I would not part with the boy in such circumstances as you had taken trouble to describe but until I saw the girl I was not sure in my own mind what to do and only made it up when confronted with her and not taking to her at all . |
| 23 | She nodded and turned to go and take care of the passengers , and the James Winterbourne character came out to meet her and also to talk to Zak . |
| 24 | It was like fire , flames that seemed to streak through her and then settle to glowing warmth . |
| 25 | The spell was broken , the pool was rippled from its serenity by the way he snapped instructions to her and then ran to the Administration block . |
| 26 | But then again , to fudge around it and simply cut to Rex lying on a bed wearing a big smile would be a severe cop-out . |
| 27 | As the majority ( and Pope Paul too ) was most anxious both to carry the minority with it and not to seem to be in any way undermining the Roman primacy , there was such a lot of qualifying done in the course of the final formulation of the text that , as it stands , it reads a little weakly . |
| 28 | He never stops talking about it and often goes to Elland Road . |
| 29 | Nevil locked the door and slammed it and then indicated to her to lead on . |
| 30 | Just think about it and then talk to me , Aurora — let me judge whether you have anything worth saying . ’ |