Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very soon , they eat enough to pass on to the next stage of their life cycle . |
| 2 | Despite the lack of wind , over the past hour a swell had built beyond the reef — a strange , almost oily swell that rose in long humps only to collapse back on itself as if exhausted by the effort . |
| 3 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 4 | It iss better to find out for yourself , our Guider says , than to be told . ’ |
| 5 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 6 | Anna had no need to be besought , for she had done a quick sum on the back of her child benefit book , and had worked out that , if Flora could start at St Saviour 's in the summer term , she would have earned enough to put down at least £100 towards the first term 's fees . |
| 7 | I live in an area of high unemployment and it drives me mad when married mothers go back to work just to get out of the house . |
| 8 | So at the end of their dancing career many tried desperately to hang on to the fringes of the theatre world as did matron Daisy Woodworth . |
| 9 | Germany 's Seizinger , narrow leader in the battle for the World Cup overall title , fell on the second leg of a giant slalom in Are , Sweden as she tried desperately to make up for lost time . |
| 10 | ‘ We tried desperately to get out of the format of landing somewhere , splitting up , getting lost and getting captured , getting into trouble and getting out of it . |
| 11 | I 've kept him informed and he has just to get on with his job . |
| 12 | by no means ‘ lightly advancing thro ’ her star-trimm 'd crowd' — he had even gone so far as to look up Lantor 's lines about Ianthe — but perhaps women could n't be expected always to live up to what poets wrote about them . |
| 13 | Yet somehow the message has still to get through to British Rail that the communication of travel information is no longer a luxury , to be fed in titbits to grateful passengers . |
| 14 | You 've come here to take up with Sergius ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ While in times past a royal wife would be expected simply to put up with a situation no matter how desperate , the Princess of Wales belongs to a generation that has come to expect greater things from life and certainly from relationships , ’ she wrote . |
| 16 | She could n't swim , so that left her with only two options : she could stay where she was and wait for whoever was lurking there to reach out of the darkness — but with her nature that was unthinkable — or she could run the gauntlet . |
| 17 | Before he invaded Iran in 1980 , Mr Hussein tried hard to get on with the Islamic zealots who had just seized power in Tehran . |
| 18 | Banbridge tried hard to get back into the game but Dungannon stuck again in the 75th minute when Denver beat Hanley with a neat lob to complete his hat-trick . |
| 19 | Some MEPs want ultimately to take over from the council the main responsibility for passing EC laws , while others want to concentrate on the right to appoint the European Commission . |
| 20 | Noting that the EC central bank proposed by Delors would not be accountable to elected governments , Major proposed instead to build on to Stage 1 further steps to promote convergence of economic performance , low inflation and stable exchange rates by building up the existing EC currency , the ECU . |
| 21 | What has yet to become an accepted methodology in the study of public administration is a perception of organizations , including those in the public sector , as being themselves political systems.l Organization theory , drawing primarily as ever on evidence from private firms and corporations , offers political interpretations of the internal structures and decisionmaking of large-scale organizations which the study of public administration has yet to take up in any systematic manner ( Walsh et al. |
| 22 | ‘ But it has yet to filter through to the more expensive properties . ’ |
| 23 | The left has yet to wake up to the new politics as played by the Prime Minister . |
| 24 | It has yet to catch on in the Third World but when it does it could prove extremely useful . |
| 25 | As a result he joined the Royal Manor of Portland Athletics Club and has since run in several races for the club in the Dorset Road Racing League , although he has yet to catch up with his friend Tony Coleman from B40 Workshop ! |
| 26 | With the experience of the Contagious Diseases Acts in mind , Ellice Hopkins tartly remarked there were ‘ one or two things which the medical profession has yet to grow out of under the influence of an enlightened public opinion ’ . |
| 27 | If so , the impact on the economy of the massive easing of policy since September ( slashing interest rates from 10% to 6% ) , has yet to show up in the figures . |
| 28 | For anyone who has yet to come up with an idea , BVP will provide access into the venture portfolio of 140 successful US products , established by companies which have already developed their product and secured a significant market share . |
| 29 | We tested the Super Dustbuster ( HC431 ) , which is easy to handle , has an additional power boost , and is designed specifically to clean up after jobs such as wood planing and sanding , as well as being able to pick up broken glass or small nails . |
| 30 | But he did n't want just to go back to Hereford Road and drink it on his own . |