Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [conj] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moral : never start a big warren system other than at the beginning of the day 's work , since you need to complete it if at all possible rather than have to extend the work into another day . |
| 2 | But once you break that down and start to have lots of small independent production companies , then you find very many larger numbers of women and everyone can choose who they want to work with . |
| 3 | The time was just after 9.30 p.m. and beginning to get dusk . |
| 4 | He says they seem to regard it as a holiday and those birds that are over twelve months old have been through this before and seem to look forward to it |
| 5 | It put England 2-0 up and seemed to break the spirit of the world bronze medallists . |
| 6 | They were once thought to be very dangerous indeed and believed to steal infants for the Devil to torment in Hell . |
| 7 | Although experienced on stage and television , she had made only one film , Funny Girl , unreleased then but set to win her an Oscar . |
| 8 | ‘ I have heard him criticising his players as not good enough and trying to rationalise their situation to dampen expectations back home . |
| 9 | His outpatient visits have been infrequent thereafter and timed to avoid organised CF clinics . |
| 10 | and bought the York stone cupboard all the way back in the wheel barrow and put it in , made , pack it all up and made to look . |
| 11 | I felt better now and decided to lie my way out of a tricky situation . |
| 12 | Such theories lead logically to leaving older people alone rather than attempting to improve the quality of their lives through continued social engagement . |
| 13 | The classical tradition held that Nature became beautiful only when subjected to reason ; the romantic view , that Nature was beautiful precisely because she was uncontrolled and was therefore in opposition to Reason . |
| 14 | Keep as busy as possible today and remember to hold yourself up , tucking your bottom under and pulling your tummy in . |
| 15 | An unemployed lift engineer 's mate , Darren Webb , 25 , of Colchester , also appreciated the opportunity to talk to people about the various training and job schemes available rather than having to rely on leaflets . |
| 16 | As you say , if somebody 's been in there from bloody five o'clock and wants to stay till eleven |
| 17 | Come the day I arrived at Docklands TV at 5.30 pm and went to man the phones till Deborah arrived . |
| 18 | But if the children some under the care of the relief agencies , little ones , who were emaciated , hollow-eyed , and listless , become after about a fortnight 's feeding quite plump again and begin to laugh and sing . |
| 19 | I left the hostel at about 9 am and went to find the office . |
| 20 | I get a bit dizzy again and have to take it easy , so what I do is I walk with one arm against the shop windows and that , so I do n't fall over . |
| 21 | How , she wondered bemusedly , could she have been so trivial recently as to wish to upset these unexceptionable people . |
| 22 | You see I were born in nineteen hundred so that means to say that when it 's nineteen ninety eight I 'll be ninety eight , I think they did that so I could er reckon me age up more easily . |
| 23 | They returned to the house , keeping close together and trying to look brave . |
| 24 | The sound was louder now and seemed to fill the box . |
| 25 | Unless you are enormously determined , it is far better to make small changes and build upon them , tackling one area at a time before you go on to the next rather than trying to lose weight , give up smoking , avoid alcohol and set yourself a punishing exercise regime all at once . |
| 26 | The Cabinet turned them both down and decided to do nothing . |
| 27 | Of course it can be difficult , when you work or study all day , to arrive home at about seven o'clock and try to feel enthusiastic about preparing a meal . |