Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb infin] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opponent may move in and strike with a roundhouse kick to the head and the first-time fighter may not actually see it coming . |
| 2 | Because I felt extremely low , and needed company , I telephoned Esme on Wednesday evening , the day Father died , to ask if she would come out for a canoe ride from the Aquatic Club to River Park , but she said she must stay in and practise for a forthcoming piano recital . |
| 3 | It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect . |
| 4 | We 'd stock up the shelves and by the middle of the afternoon all that would be left would be size 14s in puce and some size fives that maybe a girl would pop in and buy for a party just before we shut . |
| 5 | At the end of the last series , presenter Gordon Burns invited anyone who was interested in taking part to write in and ask for a place — and Paul was among the 8,000 who applied . |
| 6 | After gorging itself it would lie down and go into a digestive torpor , and could alternately eat and doze over a period of several weeks . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd like to sit down and rest for a while ? ’ she suggested . |
| 8 | What he needed was to break down and howl like a child , and it was the effort not to do so that was tearing at him . |
| 9 | The Biolife filter functions well , although as the PFK test Review Update pointed out recently , the tiny suckers which the filter hangs on seem to give up sucking and can allow the filter to drop down and submerge below a critical level . |
| 10 | ‘ He has another season-and-a-half on his contract , and if he 's playing as well as he is now , we will definitely sit down and talk about a new deal . |
| 11 | But he kept his anger under control and vowed to knuckle down and fight for a first-team future . |
| 12 | When a son or daughter decides to settle down and live with a partner for the foreseeable future , rather than getting married , the situation is different . |
| 13 | ‘ Frank , ’ I said , ‘ if we do n't agree on the running order then surely it is something we should sit down and discuss as a team . ’ |
| 14 | Part-ex and all the rest of it , did the deal , negotiated , and said right what we want to do , is Saturday morning , she thinks she 's going to come down and look at a decent second-hand one , and I want you to take the part , take the brand new car off and all the rest of it , and then say take that one for a test drive , which is mine , all taxed up and gassed up and all the rest of it , and we 'll disappear in the moonlight . |
| 15 | ‘ I tell you this , Mr Millet , two or three years ago I would n't have had the time to sit down and chatter about a chap I have n't seen for more than a year . |
| 16 | You have to be sure the bird is very hungry , and if it 's not you have to sit down and wait for a long , long time . |
| 17 | I like doing jobs where I can get down and concentrate for a period |
| 18 | He came into the kitchen after a few moments and she turned away , wandering to the far side to get away from him , battling with the sudden incredible desire to break down and sob like a little girl who had done the wrong thing yet again . |
| 19 | I knew it would be wiser to settle down and chat for a while , and drop my question casually into the conversation , but I could n't wait . |
| 20 | The sa the same applies for pricing virtually to anything else if if you 're going to take the maximum advantage of flying by air you either have to book it well in advance through a package or whatever or whatever or else you 'd have to go along and sit in a bucket shop hoping that somebody 's gon na |
| 21 | Well they 're getting comfy seats and we 're star well as you can see from the last play , Wuthering Heights that erm we actually lost money on that I know it will happen but I feel that we ought to erm go along and get into a healthier position again . |
| 22 | Then we must all get together and think of a plan . ’ |
| 23 | The gauntlet was down , the opportunity to talk to arrange a forum , to come together , land owners , local authorities , the hunt 's people , er the interested parties , to come together and look for a decent way of hunting and that way is probably drag hunting and we 're giving you a golden opportunity to start that route . |
| 24 | I think the main software houses should get together and agree on an industry standard memory configuration to which programmers should limit themselves . |
| 25 | And I think that 's what a lot of problem with condemned by the G P is is they 're not able to articulate the unhappiness that 's coming from the eating disorder , so they 're told to go away and put on a couple of pounds and because they have n't expressed that feeling the G P ca n't or is n't thinking enough to try and and poke into it a little bit more . |
| 26 | I knew that they would be criticized by the Fontanellatesi for allowing me to go away and live in a distant city among thousands of Allied soldiers . |
| 27 | Never do if I was ordered to pull over and blow into a bag . ’ |
| 28 | Often they ask me for requests , and sometimes they will come over and ask about a piece of music I 've just played . |
| 29 | ‘ I decided I 'd just walk on and yap for a bit . |
| 30 | Somewhere in Verona , apparently , there is an academic who answers all correspondence sent to the imaginary , dead woman Juliet Capulet , which is just the kind of ironic nugget Costello would seize on and enlarge to a 20-song opus . |