Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preferring to carry only a light rifle , such as a .22 , and ammunition , but unburdened by other supplies , even water , they chase goats from about 7 am until noon , when they have to quit for the day Sometimes they will put down their guns and stalk a goat , leaping on it to deliver the final coup de grace with a knife . |
| 2 | She did not want to carry on a lengthy conversation with this garrulous dumb woman ; she wanted to go to bed and hug Edward Bear . |
| 3 | Your doctor may want to carry out an internal examination to check the size and position of your womb , which will help indicate how far along you are , or this may be done at your hospital appointment . |
| 4 | For some reason we do not think in such simplistic terms and did not dismiss the Director of Licensing at the CAA from office when the pilot of a Vanguard trying to land in a snowstorm at Basle failed to carry out a successful instrument approach and killed all those poor housewives out on a day shopping trip . |
| 5 | It is , however , something to keep in the back of your mind on a shoot , and if you intend to carry out a post-production edit , pace can be a major factor in determining how you organise the assembly of your shots . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll want to catch quite an early train from Liverpool Street . |
| 7 | They might prefer to work out a general letter and simply insert the details such as where they saw the job advertised and the name given to the vacancy advertised . |
| 8 | She sit down on the chair but she 'll want to stand up a little bit cause we got bins underneath and she wants to put her feet on the bins |
| 9 | The Germans had no illusions about the military effectiveness of their principal ally , and at first they agreed to accept only a few divisions of the Alpini , the specialist mountain troops who could hold their own with any in Europe . |
| 10 | ‘ So you got to try out a few of these nice new cars yourself . ’ |
| 11 | For example , they might want to know why a particular event took place . |
| 12 | I got to work up a good sweat . |
| 13 | The Economy Ministers of Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay met on July 20 in the Uruguayan capital , Montevideo , and agreed to work out a joint set of rules to combat the dumping and sale of subsidised goods by non-members of their prospective common market agreed under the Mercosur Treaty of March 1991 [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 14 | Mr Wade said : ‘ Quite clearly , the ambulance service needs to carry out a full investigation . ’ |
| 15 | Although he has Aussie Mike Farrell returning to grind out a certain 1,000 league runs for him , new skipper of Marske , Alan Hugill , faces an uphill struggle having lost the valuable services of all-rounder John Drake who will be studying at Chester College and wicket keeper Graham Foggin who is working in the Bahamas . |
| 16 | This situation — where one man , eminent as he is , nevertheless has to carry out a huge amount of work effectively on his own , mirrors the two previous demutualisations — is a situation many believe should not have been repeated . |
| 17 | The Rangers Service has to carry out a fine balancing act — too many visitors could destroy the very habitat the rangers are trying to conserve . |
| 18 | At Level Two students will be expected to carry out an extensive job-search plan , operating largely independently . |
| 19 | Aw , hell , said the slut in her , it 's me she 's come to see not a tidy flat . |
| 20 | Poor bus services have already been identified by new town bosses who want to carry out a full traffic survey with interested bodies , including Lothian Regional Council . |
| 21 | After orientation , the end-user should : Want to carry out an online information search , either alone , or with the help of an intermediary . |
| 22 | As the HLA-A2.1 molecules on T2 cells appear to carry only a limited variety of peptides derived from signal sequences , our data suggest that the anti-HLA-A2.1 CTL clone recognizes such a signal sequence-derived peptide . |
| 23 | There are five degree programmes , designed to provide either a specialized or interdisciplinary pattern of study . |
| 24 | As well as observing the score 's incredible organization of its thematic riches — ‘ I tried to work out a little table of leitmotifs and I got past 70 , which is amazing in an opera ’ — Maazel discovered in rehearsal just how well thought out Puccini 's orchestration actually is . |
| 25 | I tried to work out an obvious connection between scholarship and cocaine and could not , but knew better than to ask . |
| 26 | C & w World has to pull together a huge number of companies under the umbrella of the parent group , including Hong Kong Telecom and an 80 per cent share of Mercury in the UK . |
| 27 | Stroud grants that if we want to know how a third person can know the nature of reality , we might carry out a psychological investigation of his methods of information processing , and then compare the results of his reasoning with known facts . |
| 28 | A girl came in and tried to haggle over a nineteenth-century vase , but Rachaela told her Mrs Mantini fixed the prices fairly and never reduced items . |
| 29 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 30 | To see this is to recognize the stylistic value of Golding 's choice : that his version of the event is of movements perceived in space and time , from which the reader has to work out a normal understanding of what is happening . |