Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the A four two three , the Kidlington to Banbury road , they expect delays still to go on through much of the evening due to the traffic lights at Bunkers Hill , and on the A four two one , just south of Bicester , the changes to the road layout at the new M forty interchange has made traffic fairly heavy still . |
| 2 | ‘ But who loves solitude enough to live there , I wonder ? ’ |
| 3 | He was a successful lecturer , much in demand , and put lectures together to make up books ; certainly a book is the ideal medium for a critic 's extended advocacy of an artist . |
| 4 | Pin or staple fabric in place and tie ribbons underneath to draw up the blind . |
| 5 | into the front room you 've got Easter hopefully to go out and to sort out |
| 6 | I used to play football just to get out the aggression . |
| 7 | if they just bring one , I shall say well I 've got choice then to say well is this this week 's or last week 's , now I do n't want to give them that opportunity to say well she 's worrying about one week 's wages , I mean Jan could love that and that 's given him chance to bring er , whereas if it pops through the door , or he comes |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the shooting and budget on the movie were starting to go over schedule , forcing UA seriously to contemplate not sinking any more money into the production . |
| 9 | Your sound engineer should mix the out-front sound at every gig and attend rehearsals regularly to keep up with new material . |
| 10 | The veteran of 11 wars , including Vietnam , was seen by millions of television viewers when he was hit but returned months later to file more moving reports from the war zone . |
| 11 | Wolf identified himself with the existing élite of Anglo-Jewry in regarding Jewish emancipation in England as a success story , and expecting that the growth of tolerance would enable Jews elsewhere to live both within their ancestral religion and culture , and as full citizens of their respective countries . |
| 12 | He seemed to me to be showing diminishing interest in the enquiry , turning his tidily brushed head away to look out of the window instead . |
| 13 | The opt-out clause which the Government have so anxiously sought , the clause that would enable Britain uniquely to opt out of participation in a single currency , is a health warning on the British economy . |
| 14 | Union representatives and the management at Leicester General Hospital have been holding talks today to save more than eighty jobs . |
| 15 | Feed dahlias fortnightly to build up strong tubers |
| 16 | Nevertheless , it is clearly important that pupils should have opportunities both to read silently and to listen to well-written books read aloud throughout their school years . |
| 17 | If you find wood hard to sit on , add a few cushions |
| 18 | Hence a 50W class-A amp would need to dissipate 100W continuously to operate properly . |
| 19 | Having settled the matter , Charity became quite friendly and urged Clarissa kindly to cheer up and not look so gloomy because there was a good time coming . |
| 20 | The hospital is asking GPs only to send in only urgent cases … further operations are likely to be cancelled over the next few days |
| 21 | Cardiff shoved Frye aside to peer out into the darkness . |
| 22 | It did n't take Juliet long to lay out syringes and packs of swabs and small dressings on a trolley . |
| 23 | It did not take Creggan long to work out that the Men could n't reach him . |
| 24 | Could my right hon. Friend find time today to think again about the significance of an historic referendum which took place in the Ukraine on 1 December , in which the people of Ukraine freely and democratically voted for their sovereignty and independence ? |
| 25 | Human culture , which at this period was making its first faltering steps towards thorough-going agriculturalism and the full-scale Neolithic Revolution which it was to bring in its train , seems to have found the loss of the ur-mother of the primal hunting and gathering society hard to get over . |
| 26 | By the mid-1950s the Cold War had taken on an inexorable logic in Europe , which made divisions hard to break down . |
| 27 | Dorothea Gilberd had already asked Toby Freely to take over her class in English . |
| 28 | Unconditional love is precisely what is given and received in the Anonymous Fellowships and the application of reality as the standard by which sufferers need to live serves gradually to clear away the confusion caused by addictive disease . |
| 29 | Of course , these considerations may lead firms collectively to undertake absurdly ambitious , big science projects when more modest research programmes would be optimal , and it is possible that research conducted collectively will be less well managed than a series of smaller scale independent projects ( the incentive to control costs may be weakened when costs are shared , and centralizing research efforts can often narrow their scope considerably ) . |
| 30 | Concern with labour productivity , they believed , would lead slave-owners both to behave more humanely and find ways of giving slaves greater autonomy in their labour . |