Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay the bike down on the grass , turn back to the shed , slowly push open the door … peer inside … without entering . |
| 2 | In I made him eat his potatoes , similarly , where the realizer of eat is " him " only , the person referred to by the direct object is represented as being involved in eating at the same time during which he is the object of the causation denoted by make : since make evokes the idea of " producing an effect " , it is impossible to conceive the making as being under way before the effect has started coming into existence . |
| 3 | Not least BARRY MOONCULT who went so ape-dropping crazy , he was spotted stumbling out of the party while it was in full swing armed with a stash of joke bombs , which despite being pretty harmless ( containing about as much genuine explosive as your average cap pistol ) make a loud enough bang to put the fear of God into the most ardent of atheists . |
| 4 | Those with one additional electron readily lose it and become positively charged ions ( cations ) ( for instance , K + ; , Na + ; ) and those with one less tend to gain an electron and become negatively charged ions ( anions ) ( for example , F- , Cl- ) . |
| 5 | Too much bother to fetch a raincoat . |
| 6 | There is no involvement in politics , we merely want to serve the public , ’ he added . |
| 7 | In the meantime I merely want to emphasise the point I was making about change . |
| 8 | Because that 's not something we want to go through their Conference Office for if we only want to do a meeting , |
| 9 | Call me an egotistical slime , but I only want to preserve the purity and integrity of the current alternative , and hope that it wo n't pass through the mass-media grinder into the mainstream , where it will eventually be recalled as one more passive , stupid fashion . |
| 10 | This method is , however , a little long-winded if you only want to edit a couple of lines . |
| 11 | Some parents only want to adopt a child of two black parents , that is of African , Afro-Caribbean or Asian origin . |
| 12 | The committee sensibly want to remove the child from crown court trials , but their solution of prelimi nary hearings is questionable . |
| 13 | ‘ We very much want to trace the driver of that vehicle because they might hold vital information which could result in this robbery being solved , ’ added the spokesman . |
| 14 | So stop slapping the boy around . ’ |
| 15 | But , of course , some status symbols merely seek to inflate the importance of an office or a person out of all proportion to his or her achievements or responsibilities . |
| 16 | I merely seek to end a war . |
| 17 | We constantly seek to improve the service through staff development and training programmes , introduction of new technology , and most importantly , creating a climate where the talent and commitment of staff at all levels can be utilised for the benefit of the community . |
| 18 | At The Royal Bank of Scotland , we constantly seek to improve the quality of service we give to our customers . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not sure I 'm physically in good enough shape to take the excitement of the ride , ’ he said , raising his glass to her . |
| 20 | First thing is to make sure that you get an opportunity to discuss it and I agree other people who actually res responded in seem to collect the fee and I am not paid to collect the fee to try to make it very difficult for people to respond but nevertheless the numbers that we , I think in terms of other areas , other areas , the response that we got it is a bit ironic though to sit here in the afternoon having listened in the morning to a lovely discussion which was agonising three hundred , five hundred thousand for on traffic calming . |
| 21 | Many books published in the last decade or so seem to underline the importance of ‘ anticipatory grieving ’ , with the result that relatives and friends can be forced into expressing emotion they may not yet be ready to express . |
| 22 | Most Secretaries of State only manage to tap the helm , giving Defence policy little more than a change in emphasis during their time in office . |
| 23 | It shines out like a beacon in the finished job despite all efforts to disguise it , ( efforts which only seem to make the fault worse ) . |
| 24 | The shroud is usually knotted at the head and feet , and sufficiently open to expose the breast and knees of the deceased . |
| 25 | The vegetables braising in the curry suddenly seem to represent the sum of the decisions I have made , and they look insignificant in comparison . |
| 26 | The implications of this approach for advertising personnel are considerable , and the best way to grasp what this means is to examine who works in advertising , and so begin to understand the hierarchy or power structures . |
| 27 | Some structures merely seem to satisfy an urge to build but not any desire to simulate an existing object or building . |
| 28 | All independently of each other going round to the , well I say independently , but they obviously get fed a lot of information from head office where we have a telesales operation . |
| 29 | Together the Yamato-1 's two SEMP drives provide enough punch to push the 185-ton ( 525-cubic metre ) experimental craft through the water at eight knots . |
| 30 | It it 's so measure measure the gradient of that and tell me what it is . |