Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [v-ing] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But football generally speaking has to be the biggest , simply because it is the most popular still . |
| 2 | And I thought it really had been a very good life , a fun life , despite Ellen never having gone to bed with me , and I wondered if my father would even notice my death , then the Maggot whooped with glee , hauled back on the stick , and our plane was screaming up into the wide blue lovely bullet-free sky and the Maggot was laughing and slapping my shoulder . |
| 3 | Any particle should be fished in the same way you fish with maggots or casters : feed a generous quantity into the swim initially , then little and often as the day wears on , the total quantity obviously varying according to how well the carp are feeding . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I 've been told all the stories about how my dad used to stand in the Steering Wheel Club with half a pint of lager just waiting to talk to people and to worm his way into Formula One . |
| 5 | But when Shannon tried them she was dismayed to find her usual easy grace had deserted her , leaving her clumsy and uncoordinated , like a new-born foal still trying to come to terms with its own legs . |
| 6 | ‘ How 's the lad ever going to come to terms with death the way you carry on ? ’ |
| 7 | joined the personnel team two years ago having moved to the area from Chester . |
| 8 | The EC Commissioner now responsible for tax , France 's Christiane Scrivener , shuffled out of the meeting unusually declining to speak to journalists . |
| 9 | So even unanimous decisions , taken by individuals freely acting according to their perception of their own interests , will not necessarily produce the result they want . |
| 10 | He put his hands out to take up the carving knife and fork and Amy Hall murmured something to her neighbour about Arthur always having wanted to be a surgeon really . |
| 11 | The Treuhandanstalt would guarantee creditors against losing money lent to businesses unsuccessfully attempting to adapt to unification . |
| 12 | Yeah well changes platforms of all these trains , anyway after a bit we decided that the Redditch train was going to come in before the train , so , er they did n't change it to say it was n't going to Redditch cos once when I was doing that they said to me , the lad was it , because it 's not to ready to change that time , you would n't matter , cos oh there 's people here waiting to go to Redditch , change it , so he said oh anyway it came , the twelve six came all the young folks going to you should of seen the number that had got off |
| 13 | Describes the clients in a pawnbroker 's shop in a squalid neighbourhood : a harridan , a drunken brute who abuses his pathetic wife , a genteel mother and daughter just becoming inured to poverty , a prostitute , and a drunken old woman ( ‘ Who shall say how soon these women may change places ? ’ ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Good — oh , here 's Suzie now demanding to speak to you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Is the strain of being a big star finally beginning to get to you ? ’ |
| 16 | Or is the strain of running a nightclub finally beginning to get to you ? ’ |
| 17 | Since then , things have changed but fractionally , many classic rock records still having failed to be recognised in ensuring years . |
| 18 | The main restrictions on foreign travel now remaining appeared to be the difficulty of obtaining foreign exchange ( only $200 could be bought in the Soviet Union ) , visas ( due to long waiting lists at Western embassies in Moscow ) and airline tickets ( for example , the Soviet state airline Aeroflot reported a 13-month waiting list for New York flights ) . |
| 19 | Tbilisi arrive in Belfast tomorrow having failed to book hotel accommodation in advance . |