Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The PROFITBOSS pro-acts his way to profit rather than reacting to potential loss . |
| 2 | From her student days Pavlova was fired by stories of her legendary predecessor Marie Taglioni , who had travelled widely and appeared to great acclaim in St Petersburg during the 1837–9 seasons . |
| 3 | Laid back , bang on and chilled to the gills . |
| 4 | These sections make it compulsory to have the company 's name painted on or affixed to the business premises and mentioned on all business documents and negotiable instruments . |
| 5 | The Government are hoping to carry on and according to the Secretary of State for the Environment the people will have to put up with the tax until 1993 . |
| 6 | ‘ He decided to carry on and returned to training four weeks ago . |
| 7 | She wanted to go on and talk to the audience before the show began : ‘ Like me , please like me , ’ she said to them , which is an approach not appreciated by British audiences . |
| 8 | come and sit down and get to business , now he may not , he may still want to have a chat about the weather or whatever you know so again be aware that to cut too soon to business |
| 9 | ‘ Sit down and listen to me . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Sit down and listen to the radio for a bit while I go up and wash . |
| 11 | ring my friend if it makes you feel alright it 's ace if you just sit down and listen to the old Beatles is n't it ? feel alright I do n't care too much for money , money ca n't be me love ca n't be me love |
| 12 | ‘ I sit down and say to myself , how can I convert a mileage reading of one hundred and fifty thousand into only ten thousand without taking the speedometer to pieces ? |
| 13 | ( Task 16 ) is a more avoidable request than ‘ Sit down and talk to me ’ . |
| 14 | If I sit down and talk to I 've said this and I 'll say it I 've said it ad nauseam . |
| 15 | He did not ask her to sit down but said to her straightaway , ‘ What has she told you ? ’ |
| 16 | They all have people who deal specifically with debt problems and will be happy to sit down and talk to you . |
| 17 | The important thing about that Richard is you still have to sit down and talk to them about these businesses . |
| 18 | There 's a thread running through them , but you have to sit down and listen to them before that sinks in . ’ |
| 19 | When the Farmer has finished he sits down and goes to sleep and begins counting to 100 . |
| 20 | A modern spacious terminal , situated alongside and integrated to the railway station just inside the main harbour entrance , provides passenger and car booking offices for P&O European Ferries and Sealink British Ferries , a travel centre for Northern Ireland Railways and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board , bookstall , buffet , currency exchange and car hire facilities . |
| 21 | Just marched in and set to work . |
| 22 | The Construction Industry Research and Information Association ( CIRIA ) has been given the responsibility of gathering together and adding to what is known about the risks . |
| 23 | He made sure they were both tucked in and went to the door . |
| 24 | They may be made from aluminium , fibreglass or plastic , and can be anything from a simple pair of flexible aluminium or plastic bars to a complicated collection of alloy pieces riveted together and linked to the harness . |
| 25 | The Hawken and the Grenville families soon got together and repaired to Ince . |
| 26 | A trade union was now to become , in the Webbs ' first definition ‘ a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment ’ , a definition later altered so as to refer to ‘ working lives ’ rather than ‘ employment ’ . |
| 27 | It applies also to someone signing a document with the blanks for the particular transaction not filled in but agreeing to , or authorising , another to fill in those blanks later , United Dominions Trust v. Western ( 1975 C.A. ) . |
| 28 | 4.4 The Company will place purchase orders with the Supplier for quantities of the Products as and when required , and the Supplier shall accept the same , provided that all such orders will be placed so as to allow to the Supplier at least 90 days for delivery . |
| 29 | Due to popular demand he will be making a return appearance over this Friends of Thomas event and all children are welcome to go along and talk to this now famous locomotive . |
| 30 | yeah , that 's the core but it needs fleshing out more and a has agreed that you know it 's if you just stuck to the Editor 's Handbook it 's too narrow and it does need , I mean B A I E in London thus far are being extremely helpful if slightly cautious and I 've to go down and talk to the revamped education committee when the revamped education committee gets around to having a meeting |