Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Saturday police were called to three town centre stores where someone had walked in and tried to remove property from staff rooms and employee 's lockers . |
| 2 | Cowles postulated that the sequence thus observed in space was equivalent to that observed in time when a section of lake was filled in and converted to dry land . |
| 3 | So eventually it stepped in and moved to buy Unix System Laboratories Inc . |
| 4 | Peeling off her wet gloves , she sat down and began to play Carnival . |
| 5 | She had lived so long within its walls that , when the great-grandfather of Miss Douglas found it necessary to abandon the castle from its ruinous state , she refused to do so and continued to find shelter there till her death , towards the beginning of the last century . |
| 6 | By now the US personnel had got themselves together and began to return fire and before Maryland was hit her gunners claimed a torpedo bomber . |
| 7 | ‘ This all started in 1986 when a handful of residents got together and decided to take action to get better homes . |
| 8 | Oz gave in straight away and started to follow Jinny up the slope . |
| 9 | Crown counsel did not make any offer of the statements and in the circumstances the learned trial judge was entitled to assume that there were no discrepancies or inconsistencies therein and to refuse to order production of the statements . |
| 10 | One could go further and try to rank order properties , such as " power " and " status " , which would give a yet higher level of measurement . |
| 11 | The time was just after 9.30 p.m. and beginning to get dusk . |
| 12 | It is a pity some of those guys do not get up and learn to do commerce in the way that the rest of the world has to and put to advantage their expensive educations which are paid for out of general taxes . ’ |
| 13 | All he could do was chip out and hope to make par . |
| 14 | The mix forms a slurry which is rolled out and heated to remove water , then thickened into a solid strip . |
| 15 | At the briefing it was not actually uttered , but there was a rumour that there was a woman and child on the Argosy , so this had made it even more important that we keep a good look out and try to find City of Glasgow . |
| 16 | UR continue to expand their operation with new labels , but maintain a staunchly underground bunker mystique which could never come out and turn to breakbeat commercialism . |
| 17 | We will have to marshal our arguments now and attempt to get support from the French , Germans , Danes and the Dutch to produce a unified voice . ’ |
| 18 | I was reading through back copies of MKM which I do quite often and started to read Help Line in the April '91 issue , when my husband ( who had been clearing out the attic ) came into the room with an old TV Times — Feb 1960 . |
| 19 | But to business , the game against Crewe on Saturady was a run of the mill 3rd round cup tie agaainst a team from the lower divisions , namely they came to shut the Leeds midfield down and run around alot while Leeds sat back and attempted to play footy . |
| 20 | As she scrambled around and tried to stay level , she watched for Josie 's return with the thought that , when she finally arrived , she 'd damn well see what a tough time Lucy had been having . |
| 21 | And you dare to come here and try to make reparation — reparation , you call it ! — for ruining my life ? ’ |
| 22 | The existing programmes will not stand still , set in tablets of stone , but will need to improve continuously and evolve to meet business needs . |
| 23 | Keep your eyes open for the names of new writers on the magazines you read regularly and try to make contact by letter or telephone . |
| 24 | From The Childhood , and even more from some conversations I recorded with the poet 's second cousin ( T. Trehame Thomas ) in 1966–7 , there are hints that Mrs Thomas 's family proudly preserved the memory of Alderman Townsend and his descendants : the Tedmans at a vicarage in Much Birch , near Hereford ; another great-uncle at Limpley Stoke near Bath with an interest in the development of Edward 's French grammar ; and many more who had either been abroad and returned to moderate affluence in the Border counties ( according to Mr T. T. Thomas 's recollections ) or had settled abroad in Africa or in the USA , like Edward 's aunt Margaret . |
| 25 | I did n't sign on or claim money or nothing , so I had to go out there and steal to get money in my pocket and clothes on my back . |
| 26 | erm unfortunately , it might sound extremely erm severe , but I can think of a number of people I 've met in my experience as a pastor who really and frankly could not help themselves and need to be treated almost like children again and made to receive help , and there are quite number of those sort of characters , unfortunately , on the streets of Oxford . |
| 27 | The next day the Imperial Naval Staff looked at the plans once again and decided to accept Operation Z . |
| 28 | Just as you were shown round the Home when you first came to work there , so a new resident should also be taken round and made to feel welcome . |
| 29 | The effects of afforestation on soils varies considerably and relates to soil type , species composition of the forest and management , including soil-preparation techniques . |