Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a tiny lizard but not er not that you would want to hit with a sweeping brush . |
| 2 | In fact he had fully intended to wait for a suitable moonlit warm right , but the trying events of the day had put him so out of sorts that he could stand the waiting no longer . |
| 3 | They tend to fall within a broad category of exploitation , a genre characterised by a simplistic ethos of violent action . |
| 4 | A fourth example of a causal belief has to do with someone 's being taught to drive by a prudential instructor , whose car has two brake pedals , each moving the same single connecting rod . |
| 5 | During her trials off the west coast of Scotland in 1989 , Upholder lost power when her propulsion control system failed to cope with a sudden switch from full ahead to full astern power , a problem which contributed seven months to the three-year delay in her becoming operational . |
| 6 | Most UK investors will want to invest with a sterling denominated cheque , rather than convert to dollars beforehand . |
| 7 | Here I would suggest that if the beginner does not want to invest in a full set , he should settle for the 3 , 5 , 7 and 9-irons , sand wedge , plus a 3 and a 5-wood . |
| 8 | They also have broad noses and sideways facing nostrils , and tend to sit in a hunched position when at rest . |
| 9 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 10 | I do not want to go on a dictionary-chasing exercise , laying down one word only to find that the marketing men have circumvented it by finding another word . |
| 11 | I do n't want to go to a new school . |
| 12 | The Sainsbury 's application is the latest to go to appeal at a public inquiry . |
| 13 | For example , if they failed to arrange for a minor repair in the science labs and a pupil was hurt as a result , they might be guilty of a safety offence . |
| 14 | Imagine what would happen if Britain sought to remain outside a single currency and European monetary union . |
| 15 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 16 | Prices plunged in October to their lowest level for more than 14 years ( taking the price of beans in London to £655 a tonne ) after the 74-country International Coffee Organization ( ICO ) failed to agree on a new price stabilization agreement favoured by the USA , the largest consumer , based on a greater allocation of the export market to some coffee producers , notably Colombia , at the expense of Brazil and the African countries . |
| 17 | The congress failed to agree on a new name for the party . |
| 18 | Experts met in Spain in September to discuss the problem but delegates failed to agree on a possible cause . |
| 19 | A breakthrough to end the 11-year civil war in El Salvador seemed unlikely , as representatives of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) guerrillas and the government failed to agree on a common plan covering reform of the US-backed armed forces , arrangements for a ceasefire , and constitutional changes to enable the FMLN to disarm and participate in democratic politics [ see p. 38231 ; for 1990 peace talks see pp. 37372 ; 37449 ; 37770-71 ; 37850 ] . |
| 20 | In approaching family work in this way a social worker may want to arrange for a multidisciplinary assessment , calling on advice from the health care team . |
| 21 | It is the way we intend to proceed in a whole range of different market areas . ’ |
| 22 | Mm we expected to perform in a professional way , particularly after incidents like last week when we had an horrendous twenty four hours and we do n't get paid for it |
| 23 | Tubifex is collected by scooping up the mud patch containing the worms , and then washing the mud away to leave clean worms which tend to gather in a tight ball . |
| 24 | ROS : A Christian , a Moslem and a Jew chanced to meet in a closed carriage … |
| 25 | Rule-based parsers tend to work on a sentential basis which appears to be too much delay for users . |
| 26 | Our investigations of casual working in the catering industry confirmed the impressions given by the data from the LFS that most casual workers did not want to work on a regular , continuous basis . |
| 27 | she wo n't , she 's , she 's just on the , oh I do n't want to work in a boring office we 've , we 've tried to say not , you do n't have to work , it 's an in , it 's an in to what you want |
| 28 | The mystic person who singularly failed to appear during a 20-year span of abuse was my doctor . |
| 29 | Each item of such a carefully considered scheme will have been intended to stand in a specific position in Kent 's rooms . |
| 30 | They made a short visit , I suspect that they were going on to M.J. 's [ Margaret Jourdain 's ] brother and like Dulcia [ in A House and Its Head ] expected to come by a good deal of refreshment in the course of their peregrinations . |