Example sentences of "[noun] of [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They always show the most violent aspects of everything so's to make money . ’ |
| 2 | She snapped the seat belt into position and stared out through the window as if in search of something else to organize . |
| 3 | She looked towards the Archdeacon and recognised the signs of someone about to take the plunge . |
| 4 | ‘ He had the look of somebody about to invite you home to cold chicken and salad with a mug of real warm English beer , ’ she continued as they walked the long black-and-white-tiled corridor . |
| 5 | George took his for want of something else to do . |
| 6 | He , Ratagan and Isay were wandering the fortress and taking in the holiday atmosphere for want of something else to do before the feast began . |
| 7 | For her there was always a strange excitement in his presence of something about to happen . |
| 8 | ‘ Is this decision of yours just to try and thwart me , or do you have any particular reason ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Is this Hugh of yours likely to visit ? ’ |
| 10 | If luxuriating in a country house hotel or having fun on a farm or enjoying a weekend by the sea appeals to you , why not get hold of our Where to Stay accommodation guides . |
| 11 | However , the charge is often returned by environmentalists who note how much farmers pride themselves on being ‘ stewards ’ of the English countryside for the benefit of future generations and for the nation at large , but then deny the right of anyone else to have a say in how it should be maintained for them . |
| 12 | In any single game , a computer will make enough mistakes to illustrate a whole textbook of what not to do . |
| 13 | And in the middle of that , they thought that perhaps an ornamental lighting column with sort of , with lights coming out from the top of it just to make it a bit more fancy . |
| 14 | The rest of them still to go . |
| 15 | Enough has been revealed about the antics of the Monarchy in the past few weeks to suggest that people in palaces should not be trying to tell the rest of us how to behave . |
| 16 | They do n't know anything about life , so they come and tell the rest of us how to live it . ’ |
| 17 | Accountants would always be kept busy showing the rest of us how to work the system . |
| 18 | He felt too seriously about the watching of it ever to have played it . |
| 19 | After they 've scalded my ears with their abuse for a few weeks , and paraded my wreckage before the assembled ranks as an edifying example of what not to do and how not to do it , they will probably just turn me into a stone gargoyle on the roof of some Gothic cathedral . |
| 20 | The professor who recently returned from an extended visit to Australia and New Zealand said he found very good examples in Australia of what not to do in the field of child welfare . |
| 21 | Second , there are issues about the choice of which home to enter , the locality of the home and how long to stay once care is entered . |
| 22 | That way it made his rejection of me easier to bear . |
| 23 | But I mean the main the main I mean in it in certain quarters we 've been down playing that aspect of it simply to get it through . |
| 24 | list of what to eat , and a list of list of what not to eat . |