Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shrews keeper Steve Perks pushed a Mick Tait piledriver round the post after only eight minutes , and then the keeper got down well to make an identical save from a left foot shot by Steve Gaughan . |
| 2 | when er , Geoff and er Steven come back he was , want me and Andy to go down there to have a look at sa , a stand and we said no we do n't a lot of bloody money is n't it ? |
| 3 | Fifteen minutes into the second half , the ball was played out of defence , down the left by Rob Madgwick to Tony Clarke and his cross found Joe O'Shea who headed in decisively to end a splendid three-man move and put Millers level . |
| 4 | Many scientists saw at once its far-reaching implications and a whole spate of major papers were published in 1967 and 1968 , which quite suddenly added up together to make a completely new way of looking at the Earth 's main working parts : Plate Tectonics . |
| 5 | FACING PAGE Many dogs will instinctively jump up either to seize a toy or as a greeting . |
| 6 | If necessary rescheduling should be carried out either to give a new completion date or to increase resources ( or reduce time allocated ) in order to get back on schedule . |
| 7 | " They have a first class officer who has leant over backwards to establish a low profile in dealing with immigrants . " |
| 8 | ‘ To come straight to the point , I drove down here to make a suggestion . |
| 9 | At 2200 the casualty refloated herself under her own power , but as the rudder was jammed the lifeboat came in again to secure a towline from the casualty 's bow to keep her off the sand . |
| 10 | Repetitions and variations can be easily built up easily to create an atmosphere like this . |
| 11 | Foley , stony-faced , told him that the dirty tricks brigade , led by Charles Fraser-Smith , had turned up earlier to make a replica of the prisoner 's uniform , correct in every detail . |
| 12 | She thawed out sufficiently to allow a wintry suggestion of a smile to appear . |
| 13 | I came out here to do a job , Signor de Sciorto … ’ |
| 14 | I came out here to have a little fun skiing quietly round , and here you are , attempting to barge your way into my life all over again . |
| 15 | Anyway he was at home that day , home for lunch , and he and Beryl were actually sitting at the table , talking as it happened about going down soon to take a look at the Hall , when Adam came in . |
| 16 | Would it not be more prudent to say something interesting about her stamp collection before going out quietly to buy a simple cookbook . |
| 17 | In our natural history ( as elsewhere later in science ) it turned out best to adapt an existing language ; but the man who did it , Ligneous , in the middle of the eighteenth century , came from Sweden . |
| 18 | About a dozen protesters , including Labour MP Tam Dalyell , turned out yesterday to defend a 5,000-year-old burial ground from developers who want to put up a radio mast for mobile phones . |
| 19 | Let's move on now to consider a very important type of infection such as meningitis . |
| 20 | PEST exterminator Frank Murray was called on yesterday to SAVE a swarm of wasps . |
| 21 | Walesa stepped in personally to halt a strike on June 10 by the country 's 200 air traffic controllers who demanded salaries comparable with colleagues in other European countries . |
| 22 | She nodded , and they set off again to find a Venice few tourists saw . |
| 23 | But unhappy names are not ready to give up enough to produce a settlement . |
| 24 | The good old pre-Taylor Report surge occured , I was flung about fifteen foot in the air , the soap box splintered , my dad acrobatically caught me in his teeth , and this big evil looking bloke got a nail in his leg from the now flattened soapbox.It was better than staying up late to watch an American Werewolf in London.The rest is history , and I 've been going ever since . |
| 25 | ‘ … the designers set out deliberately to create a pedestrian dominated area … short culs-de-sac ( gave ) access to several small courtyards- , around which a half dozen or so houses were grouped quite informally . |
| 26 | The Amble lifeboat was called out yesterday to take a crewman with a gashed hand off an oil rig support ship in the North Sea . |
| 27 | Having achieved this , the camera can then pull back to a wider view and re-establish the general scene before closing in again to continue a probe of the setting and its activities . |
| 28 | I think he was brought in just to do a good production job . ’ |
| 29 | It pulled back slowly to reveal a fringe of green around the black . |
| 30 | it might well be that one of the one of the forms could go down there to have a morning as part of this project to do |