Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know , so to go before hand and fetch her here back with us |
| 2 | He made no sketches in advance but got straight down to work with pencil and ruler , drawing the outline before filling in with emulsion paint . |
| 3 | I received a strong impression that it was not enough to know about injustice and suffering ; practical solutions had to be found . |
| 4 | I was just going to say , I was just saying , that I saw the posters that erm parents and carers should erm , go along to talk about parenting and at the bottom it said , erm , will be selling multi-racial toys and dolls and things like that . |
| 5 | The quality of anal continence was assessed clinically by two doctors who questioned each patient about faecal leakage by day and during sleep , the need to wear a pad , anal soreness , the ability to defer defecation for longer than 15 minutes , and the ability not only to discriminate between flatus and faeces but to release flatus safely without having to visit the lavatory . |
| 6 | When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before . |
| 7 | But , miraculously , everything seemed suddenly to fit into place and we managed to put all the horror behind us and start again . |
| 8 | Director Peter Smallridge claims this was less to do with ideology and more for the benefit of service users . |
| 9 | Their theme , as given in the conference invitation , was : ‘ Can some modern nation show the way to a change that goes deep enough to deal with hate and fear and greed ? |
| 10 | This produces the heavy inflexible armour of the beetles , and mouthparts sharp and tough enough to gnaw through timber and even cut metals like copper and silver . |
| 11 | But you also find disappointing examples of companies which still perceive marketing to be all to do with promotion and little to do with profits . |
| 12 | It 's all to do with memory and word association . |
| 13 | This is easy enough to use in theory and works effectively . |
| 14 | A Wolves penalty miss lets in Stoke Derby dig in to hold off Palace and Peterborough put Birmingham on the spot . |
| 15 | People , they said , would do better to stay at home and contemplate the teachings of the Koran . |
| 16 | The first larvae to hatch have to be fed by their parents , but once they are big enough to forage for food and build walls of mud , the royal couple devote themselves entirely to the production of eggs and the colony is founded . |
| 17 | These narratives do not work only to unite across space and time . |
| 18 | ‘ Ai nt no VietCong ever called me a nigger , ’ was his simple , but penetrating , reason for not accepting the draft for which he was stripped of his world title and forced into inactivity for three years ( only to return from adversity and carry on boxing , often successfully , for world titles until aged 38 ) . |
| 19 | Chief Inspector Chips Salter was one of the officers they had been sent in to bring under control and Salter both guessed this ( although all such information was supposed to be highly confidential ) , and naturally — resented it . |
| 20 | Concentrations of sulphur dioxide from burning of low-grade coal at the region 's power stations led to a heavy smog in mid-February ; children were told not to go to school and some pregnant women were evacuated . |
| 21 | I 'd love to make a black version , in which some kids from South Central LA , who get bussed out to the Sand Fernando Valley ( affluent LA suburb ) , decide not to go to class and start tramping around Fernando doing what they did in that movie . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm sure I 'm there just to concentrate on coaching and I 'm sure that 's the first thing I need to look at ’ , Jenkins also said . |
| 23 | His journals in particular constitute a moving memorial to a young man of integrity and moral courage , whose determination not to succumb to pain and humiliation was at times heroic . |
| 24 | Try not to click with mouse and type on the keyboard while Windows is frozen because when it comes back it acts on all of the commands that you have given it — so apparently switching from a state of deep sleep to rapid activity that can look like another stage in a serious crash ! |
| 25 | Emancipation was not to arrive without conflict and growing recognition of that truth stimulated a more radical strain in antislavery which took the form of the demand for immediate emancipation . |
| 26 | As a consequence , individuals ( and many measures ) tend not to think of wealth and income as two sides of the same coin , but rather as different segments of that coin . |
| 27 | The petitioner asked for an order not to remove from care and control of petitioner . |
| 28 | okay , okay erm yeah although normally you could do something like that while you can do that by phone you can call up and say yes we 're coming definitely just to get in touch and say it . |
| 29 | In considering the exercise of their powers the local authority must take into account matters which they ought to take into account , ignore matters which they ought not to take into account and then reach a decision which is not so unreasonable that no reasonable local authority could have come to it . |
| 30 | He had felt greatly excited as he and his father got up at 5am to travel by bus and train from their home in Heywood , Lancashire to Ben Rhydding near Ilkley where the meeting was to take place . |