Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | then going over this sea blue and I was , so beautiful , you know Catholic used to say , when you di died in paradise , always want to go up the somewhere else paradise and it 's in here and look what happened they ruin and ruin and ruin and so be |
| 2 | When you have shared something like that , you want to find out a little more about those who have shared it with you . |
| 3 | Mrs McBride and the current incumbent were expected to work out a mutually agreed arrangement of hours and duties . |
| 4 | ‘ If one of my patients wants to give up a potentially curative treatment in favour of an alternative therapy , then I will try to dissuade them . |
| 5 | Long whips of hawthorn arched over and helped to shut out the barely lightening sky . |
| 6 | In turn , the new monarchs tried to build up an economically prosperous bourgeoisie to increase tax revenues and to prevent any reversion to feudal conflicts which would fragment the nation — state . |
| 7 | To do so , he will need to rest up a little , for an old body is a less willing one . |
| 8 | To do so , he will need to rest up a little , for an old body is a less willing one . |
| 9 | ‘ I want to send out a very strong message today , ’ he had said , ‘ one thing I learned when I was young is that you do n't give in to the village bully . |
| 10 | His face was in shadow , and Harry , fascinated and fearful , ventured to lean out a little from his eyrie to watch what he was at . |
| 11 | Indeed , even your narration will need to take on a more direct tone . |
| 12 | Several additional features can now be added like colour or photographs and the product starts to take on a more professional look . |
| 13 | The man himself departed to take up a more remunerative and prestigious post elsewhere , and his friends and supporters fell silent , or retired , or resigned and took jobs in America . |
| 14 | Secondly , it is well known that the impact of the rediscovery of poverty in the 1880s helped to bring about a much more complex analysis of poverty and its causes , which in turn looked toward the State to begin to solve the problem . |
| 15 | It was reported on Jan. 8 that former federal judge Frederick B. Lacy , the court-appointed independent administrator assigned to clean up the notoriously corrupt Teamsters union ( International Brotherhood of Teamsters , Chauffeurs , Warehousemen and Helpers of America ) , had banned one of the union 's vice-presidents , T. R. " Teddy " Cozza , for having knowingly associated with figures involved in organized crime . |
| 16 | After which an attempt was made to set out the most elementary logical conditions that must be satisfied before anything can qualify as a potential existent . |
| 17 | Then , riding on , he stiffly dismounted , avoiding the kicking of disabled horses , and stooped to pick up the now trampled and muddied Lion Rampant standard of Scotland . |
| 18 | They seemed to keep up a fairly regular speed and , although it was bumpy , she 's sure they did n't climb any steep hills in a low gear . |
| 19 | Christian Braun , founder and director of the Overholland Foundation , has decided to close down the privately run museum on Museumsquare in Amsterdam . |
| 20 | For anyone disposed to take on the often very satisfying task of making banners I can assure them that there are several very kind ‘ Barnabases ’ in the church whose comments and encouragements I have valued . |
| 21 | But Mel Gibson likes the treatment , which Letterman himself has had to work up a little . |
| 22 | However , herbs have always been used to pep up the more blandly-flavoured foods such as fish , vegetables and cereals . |
| 23 | His mother 's collection of family snapshots shows that , whereas most babies look much like any other babies until they begin to grow up a little , John looked recognizably himself at a very early age , thanks largely to his big smile , almost a grin . |
| 24 | The Bosnian Serbs may be persuaded to give back a little more land elsewhere , if President Milosevic of Serbia judges that this will speed the removal of the sanctions the world has imposed on his country . |
| 25 | As an appetiser to the spectacle approaching , the rocks begin to take on an unusually geometric shape , until on turning the jagged headland of Part na Spanaigh , the astonishing site of 40,000 mostly hexagonal stone columns comes into view . |
| 26 | And they both er wave to the crowds , both sets of players and taken a round of applause as the two captains are out there , and there are plenty of cameras , including video cameras er almost obstructing my view and er I hope that gentleman is er going to take up a rather better position from my point of view because we want to see the er performances of the two teams . |
| 27 | It is so-called because the bêche plate must be reused to cut up the even denser marc . |
| 28 | Because they are unaffected by psychology and do n't take break tests they can be used to pin down a much more powerful enemy , diverting attention away from the core units . |
| 29 | ‘ I admit I 've had to cut back a little just recently , but I 'm hoping to get back into my stride really soon . ’ |
| 30 | We knew her and we also knew that she was taking food to a different set of prisoners ; they were beginning to scatter over an increasingly wide area as there was now no hope of an immediate Allied invasion of northern Italy , which was what everyone had hoped for . |