Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's all a matter of survival , and right now I intend to concentrate on surviving this disaster . |
| 2 | The physical brain and the world of introspectible phenomenal experience are all that there really is : ‘ no cognitive psychologist has succeeded in defining another sort of input between these two which would provide the ultimate bits of information to which rules are applied ’ ( p. 199 ) . |
| 3 | Detailed evidence is scarce , although recent archaelogical investigation has succeeded in identifying many deserted villages , and it is to be hoped that gradually excavation may help to clarify , at least within broad limits , when some of these desertions occurred . |
| 4 | Historically , where social space for community has not been allowed to exist , the community has responded by creating this space through the articulation of social movements . |
| 5 | He says they now want to concentrate on getting more venues . |
| 6 | Once a craft becomes a business , half the pleasure goes out of the window if one has to worry about making enough money to maintain a reasonable standard of living . |
| 7 | We lived together happily for many years and now it has come to killing each other 's babies . |
| 8 | Receivers however always want to sell without giving any warranties and indemnities because their own knowledge of the business is limited and they do not want any continuing involvement with the buyer . |
| 9 | These arise from a household 's obligation to devote many unpaid hours of work to caring for its dependent members , and from the fact that some households have only one fit person of working age who has to choose between doing this , or going out to earn a living , or driving themselves to exhaustion trying to do both . |
| 10 | He wants to talk about getting some of his poets to work on the Alps — he 's looking after one or two o the Romantics for a few months , while a colleague of his is sitting on a commission of inquiry . |
| 11 | This is a fate Roddick has avoided by operating most of her shops under a franchise system . |
| 12 | For that reason alone , I remain totally unpersuaded that the enterprise Michael Heseltine has embarked upon symbolises any effort to displace or dislodge Mrs Thatcher . |
| 13 | So another reason for church planting has to do with taking more ground for Jesus . |
| 14 | She has discovered that a boundary line for consumption of non-staple household goods existed even across the bequeathing classes , and has cautioned against accepting much contemporary opinion that the " luxury " market had reached well down the social scale . |
| 15 | At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time . |
| 16 | I had never been able to persuade her to accept any money for her kindness and tried to reciprocate by doing any small repairs she needed to her flat , and by supplying occasional tickets for the theatre , for the tennis at Wimbledon , and for the races at Epsom . |
| 17 | This week I want to start by reconsidering that first objection but we ca n't leave everything to the people . |
| 18 | This chapter has concentrated on exploring some problems of definition and interpretation which make speaker variables so difficult to handle , with particular reference to the variables of social class , sex , ethnicity and social network . |
| 19 | On the other hand , as we have changed to electricity , because of the inefficiency of the electricity generating process this has reflected an increase in the primary fuel consumption by the nation for domestic purposes , and this is true of most western countries that the consumption in the home has not increased , but changing to electricity increasingly has led to burning more oil and coal nationally to produce this constant home demand . |
| 20 | Er obviously we will need to decide on rationalizing that down , to highlight one or two of the larger jobs and |
| 21 | This looks simple enough but , believe me , a lot of sweat has gone into producing that formula . |
| 22 | Nothing has happened since to contradict that judgment . |
| 23 | I mean , I think something , Chairman , that we should actually seek to resist , given the effort that , that everybody has put into , has , has put into getting that five B status , into the west of Shropshire , and into Herefordshire . |
| 24 | Now you appreciate how much work and effort and thought Matilda ( bride 's mother 's name ) has put into organizing this wonderful wedding . |
| 25 | ‘ He is the last one here I would have expected to think of doing that . ’ |
| 26 | Collor 's defence lawyers also confirmed that they would not call Farias ( who had been widely expected to turn on Collor , since Collor 's defence evidence was expected to centre around directing all the blame at him ) . |
| 27 | Spain , for example , has warned against imagining that unity can be achieved by creating new institutions . |
| 28 | The further into the future the perceived crisis , the more the chief executive will need to rely on introducing some flexibility into the corporate strategy to facilitate a change in direction in future if it becomes necessary . |
| 29 | She is in no mood to lose all she has achieved since winning that first TV role in The Sullivans , nine years ago . |
| 30 | Since the set has two transmitter power settings , 1.6W and 5.0W output power , I had hoped to find that the higher power setting would overcome by 1.5W KX99 's main failing — its inability to talk to ground stations farther that about 10nm away ; but according to the controllers I tried to speak to using both hand-helds in turn , there was only a very marginal difference between the King and the ICOM unit on either of its power settings . |