Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] they [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 2 | It seemed outrageously unfair that after so long she could not have him to herself and she hoped that his lodger would be tactful enough to leave them in peace during her visit . |
| 3 | It will enable farmers to receive the special Weatherfax forecasts daily to guide them on crop spraying — helping to save around ten per cent of chemical input — and all other outdoor activities . |
| 4 | But chimpanzees do not breed well in captivity , partly because of a long pregnancy and childhood , and trapping them in the wild is expensive and wasteful enough to put them at risk of extinction . |
| 5 | It is doubtful how many of those who bestow gifts of coral on infants appreciate that their forebears did so to protect them from bewitchment . |
| 6 | This , for Nelson , is the soul of Berlioz 's art , the musical equivalent of jeweller setting gemstones in precious metal , not merely to hold them in place , but to show them off to their greatest advantage . |
| 7 | The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place . |
| 8 | In a flash of inspiration , they replaced the oil with mashed bananas , which lubricated the engine just long enough to get them to civilisation . |
| 9 | The most obvious way of preventing cracks from spreading in brittle materials is not to use them in tension , in other words to use them in compression . |
| 10 | It should be stressed that the aim in providing teachers with training in observational procedures is not to turn them into classroom researchers … |
| 11 | Preference rules may be broken ; in fact it would be very difficult not to break them from time to time as some of them conflict . |
| 12 | Perhaps I may also be permitted to use some of your space to assure your readers that the arrival of Triassic and Lilla for our Summer Gala ( June 20th/21st ) was not intended to be in any way the last minute and the locomotives arrived just two days before the event , so we preferred not to advertise them in advance so as to avoid disappointment . |
| 13 | Be careful not to squash them with film wrapping . |
| 14 | But also to put them in position whereby in the future , as the needs for further services emerge , they will be able erm , to , to contribute with the department for , for those services for that er , appropriate funding . |
| 15 | Some vegetables , like beetroot , carrot , endive and winter lettuce varieties , should be sown now , but covered with cloches later to protect them to maturity . |
| 16 | The answer seems to be — persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called into question . ’ |
| 17 | To know properly to mix them in planting is another matter of painting with living pencils , for greens properly disposed throw in a mixture of contrasts of lights and shades which wonderfully enliven the pictures and which insensibly strike the senses with wonder and delight . |
| 18 | The notion of ‘ protection ’ is not necessarily concerned with protecting participants from emotion , for unless there is some kind of emotional engagement nothing can be learned , but rather to protect them into emotion . |
| 19 | First , because the Barclays ( Asia ) allegations are so old — and so unnecessarily old — that it would be an abuse of process now to bring them to trial . |
| 20 | When you are giving tablets to your dog , it may be possible simply to disguise them in food , such as a piece of meat , which can then be added to the dog 's meal . |
| 21 | By the time they produce their own young they are solitaries with no older females around to teach them by example . |
| 22 | ‘ Rehearsals ’ : how to plan them in order to get the most out of them . |
| 23 | ( The previous method was to leave the pieces slightly large , and then to ease them by plane or chisel until they fitted into the mortises , etc . ) |
| 24 | It could well be that I have prejudices about what makes a decent DTP system , but I tried to outline and then to justify them as part of the review . |
| 25 | The style and tone of this appendix are quite astonishing ; fortunately , readers of this book and of Early music will be aware that for one writer to read another 's work insufficiently carefully to understand it , to attribute to him ideas he does not hold , and then to subject them to sarcasm and ridicule is no way to conduct academic debate , and about these four pages the present writer — the recipient of this attention — needs say no more . |
| 26 | No , not a dog , a bodyguard stationed there to protect them from evil . |
| 27 | ‘ I will be part of a team sent out there to study them as part of an environmental project . |
| 28 | The teacher 's guide explains the business concepts in the case studies , and how to exploit them in teaching . |
| 29 | He came to understand the need to settle for half a loaf rather than nothing at all ; he recognized the need to negotiate with legislators while he also discovered how to bring them into line by going over their heads to the people . |
| 30 | Fortunately , many of these loopholes are now being closed by new amendments and , hopefully , there will be less frustration for the law-enforcers who , in the past , have seen many villains slip through the net after they have worked hard to bring them to justice . |