Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When I took my children to bed at night they would pause to look through a little knee-high window which lit the stairs . |
| 32 | A number of them are patched with squares of the ubiquitous plywood which is also employed to board up the now empty , adjoining , caretaker 's house . |
| 33 | But think of this as us helping each other — you get the promotion , and I get to take out the most beautiful woman in the office ! ’ he winked . |
| 34 | Traditional assumptions about professional boundaries and working practices will have to be challenged to bring about a more cost-effective deployment of trained staff . |
| 35 | Even sacks with adjustable back lengths have their limits and people of above or below average height will have to shop around a little more carefully before finding the pack that 's just right for them . |
| 36 | They must attempt to innovate over a very broad front using people and structures which are still firmly in place from the ancien régime . |
| 37 | Perhaps I should try to pick up a little extra at Macready 's tables . |
| 38 | Fertility conditions play a part then , and as hard pruning provokes the greater growth response , we should judge to ease back a little on poor , dry soils compared with more fertile conditions . |
| 39 | So Dawn would have to fly off a little , giving in to the force of the wind , and then come back . |
| 40 | A very warm day here at Lord 's , breeze just starting to get up a little , in fact the sun has just disappeared behind one of a very few clouds . |
| 41 | Another new technology has enabled ICI Paints to bring out a completely new low-solvent automotive refinish product called ‘ Aquabase . ’ |
| 42 | Continue to bring about a more positive attitude towards engineers and risk issues amongst employers , professional Institutions , providers , trade unions and individual engineers . |
| 43 | He managed to put over a fairly complex argument in a brilliantly simple way . ’ |
| 44 | Each time try to build up a more detailed picture . |
| 45 | I had hoped to build up a little more dramatic tension before revealing the details of this particular sleight of hand , but yes . |
| 46 | While five weeks of dry windy weather would suit the farmers , water resources experts want it to keep on raining to top up a desperately low water table . |
| 47 | He can afford to draw back a little . |
| 48 | After 4 a.m. on the morning of the twenty-seventh the eruption appeared to die down a little , but the grandest moments were yet to come . |
| 49 | Even then she had found it difficult to get up in the morning , had begged and pleaded to be allowed to lie in a little longer , had gone back to sleep more often than not , the forerunner , Cecilia supposed , of her present practice of often lying in bed till noon . |
| 50 | And , thankfully , many can afford to splash out a little on treats and luxuries . |
| 51 | Peter Parker does his best for Ackerley , praises his work — minor , but with an odd verve — and tries to bring out the more endearing sides to his nature revealed in letters to friends . |
| 52 | But EC politicians are meeting later this month to discuss maternity rights and it seems likely that Britain will be forced to bring in a more generous package . |
| 53 | He is in the process of changing his swing and said his old method had started to show up a little too much . |
| 54 | At 3500 miles into the Metro 's life , the Rover dealer had to sort out a badly slipping clutch and , a few miles later , replace the brake pads in a effort to cure the soggy feel of the originals . |
| 55 | The voice recordings were shipped to London where MI6 had to set up a totally new department of 250 specially recruited Russian-speaking experts to slowly work their way through the material . |
| 56 | On the other hand , a pro-rights clergyman suggested that it is our traditional despotic treatment of the non-human creation which has been truly infantile , and that it is only in this century that we have begun to grow up a little . |
| 57 | Obstinately , she remained standing , looking at him and trying to shut down the traitorously receptive part of her that was assimilating the way his formal evening attire enhanced his devastating masculinity . |
| 58 | ‘ I wish to build up a more intimate relationship with you , Ian , ’ the hairy shrink had told me . |
| 59 | This , combined with the enormous quantity of information available about the makers and patrons of French eighteenth-century furniture , help to build up a much more complete picture than is possible for the earlier pieces . |
| 60 | The audience heaved upwards and broke like a wave , applauding , stamping , weeping , shouting , wailing with bitter envy and writhing to soak up a little of the surplus magic in the air . |