Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven ; |
| 2 | The poet 's eyes ( according to Shakespeare 's Theseus ) " in a fine frenzy rolling , doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven " . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but from things he let drop from time to time I think there probably was . |
| 4 | The Chronicle says that in 1009 an opportunity to fall on the enemy was let slip on account of Eadric , " as it always was " . |
| 5 | The enduring relationship is treated as a perpetual debt and is made manifest from time to time by continued gift-giving throughout the duration of the marriage . |
| 6 | This is called It Was Good In the afternoon when the sun half close his eyes , ants can be found not working , dogs in their cool places , vandal wall slice through heat , hold and let go of light in rays , in the afternoon when smoke curls like the back of a cat , people lean and braid hair , someone dressed like Christ looked in and said it was good . |
| 7 | Would you like that one again , In the afternoon when the sun half close his eyes , ants can be found not working , dogs in their cool places , vandal wall slice through heat , hold and let go of light in rays , in the afternoon when smoke curls like the back of a cat , people lean and braid hair , someone dressed like Christ looked in and said it was good now we have the dug out how food is presented erm can say so much , at least it does to me and , so that , so that the beginning of this poem became from er the food , piece of food held in the hand of the mayor in this picture . |
| 8 | In that direction I understand the Indians , Pakistanis and Sri Lankans have offered a total of about £1 million more to help pay for cricket in developing countries . |
| 9 | In that direction I understand the Indians , Pakistanis and Sri Lankans have offered a total of about £1 million more to help pay for cricket in developing countries . |
| 10 | The Theatres Trust has donated £1,500 to Saltburn Community Theatre to help pay for renewal of the ceiling above the stage . |
| 11 | CROWN BUCKLEY , THE SOUTH Wales brewer that Guinness , through The Harp Lager Company , helped save from bankruptcy in 1990 , has been sold to its management team , lead by Managing Director , and their financial backers . |
| 12 | Use the help of members of the Anonymous Fellowships to help intervene in addiction in primary sufferers or in family members . |
| 13 | Would you like to help talk to grandma on the phone ? |
| 14 | It is important that you complete this , as it acts as a trigger to help speed up payment of your benefits . |
| 15 | There may have been problems of mastery , of control , of appropriate letting go ; or an early refusal to let go as resistance to an over-persistent potty-training parent . |
| 16 | he was like a terrier , unable to let go in spite of a beating , and it was hard for her not to feel responsible ; because , after all , did n't his persistence show that she 'd come to matter to him , at least a little ? |
| 17 | Dr Neil , with many a joke , helped them , made change , and once went out to return with lemonade and glasses for all the ladies who were so busy manning the stalls , Mr Sands helping him — the rector being a vague benevolent figure who came in and blinked at them all , said , ‘ I am sure , ladies , that you will all gain treasure in heaven for your noble work here today , ’ and went out again . |
| 18 | Where the rail track runs from the North town to the South town or you could go go by rail from the one side of the hill to the other . |
| 19 | Others do stay in care for a long time . |
| 20 | Doctors from the hospital told the coroner that although it was ’ highly unusual ’ for such a thing to occur , such complications did arise from time to time . |
| 21 | Where data do exist on support between kin across households , this tends in effect to be limited to documenting the networks through which support flowed and the kind of support which was given , and can give very little direct evidence about the underlying structure of social relations which supported these exchanges . |
| 22 | Commitments do exist from year to year and constant re-evaluation is impractical and might prove more destructive than constructive . |
| 23 | At first interview half the carers said they would prefer the sufferer to be in institutional care , and it was overwhelmingly from among these who wanted the sufferer to remain at home that those who did remain at home for the year were to be found . |
| 24 | All these efforts do need of course to be assessed against their compliance or otherwise with national and regional guidance . |
| 25 | There were a few exercises they forbade , and would never let the Prince pilot supersonic Buccaneers or the Sea King anti-submarine helicopters ; but he did qualify for membership of the exclusive Ten Ton Club , by flying at more than 1,000 m.p.h. in a phantom scrambled from Leuchars in Fife , which he had taken over Balmoral before going supersonic off the coast of Scotland . |
| 26 | ‘ You are attractive , but people do fall in love with other people , you know . ’ |
| 27 | First , Clary did appear without make-up in a photograph in Time Out a few years ago . |
| 28 | The only people who did keep in touch with Ken for more than a block of years in which they were extremely close , only for it all to fade away , were Stanley Baxter and Gordon Jackson . |
| 29 | Unlike Faulkner 's discussion group , the Parliamentarians could and did agitate for action to be taken on certain issues for which there was all party support . |
| 30 | Even if women do return to work after having children , the majority go to a new employer and often to a job at a lower status than the one they left . |