Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't make me sorry I came here to say ‘ Goodbye ’ . ’ |
| 2 | In 1980 I set out to change the face of political presentation in the UK and to use some of these new concepts and techniques in business and industry as well . |
| 3 | But this she found easier to bear , partly because Mrs. Mounce had so many troubles herself that she was able to be kind back to her , and partly because Mrs. Mounce 's world and Mrs. Mounce 's advice seemed even more remote and unreal than Jannie 's . |
| 4 | And you know in one week , but I 'm quite willing you know just to get on with the handicraft , but I just ca n't be committed . |
| 5 | I could see this condition coming upon me relentlessly from the first moment Dana cast his eyes upon me : he was another who knew how to use the power of the evil eye , almost casually , to enchant total strangers . |
| 6 | Lesley was a devoted family girl , but at 22 she moved off to live at Warrington , 15 miles away . |
| 7 | This simple rule , embodied in the Rights of Way Act , which on its wording at least applies to ways by water as well as land , states that to recognize a way as public one needs only to show that it has been freely and openly used by the public for 20 years . |
| 8 | To illustrate this one has only to look at the account of a pupil pursuit in a school which had thought through clearly its broad curriculum and made plans accordingly . |
| 9 | When we are old we take longer to recover and because we ca n't discharge them to nursing kind of beds then there 'll be back up in the John Radcliffe Hospital and extra pressure there . |
| 10 | Explaining this they went on to say that perhaps if they did not have to put up with Keith 's trying behaviour every day until evening they might have fewer rows . |
| 11 | From this he moved on to command the airship station at Wormwood Scrubs , and then went to the Admiralty to help in airship design and allocation . |
| 12 | It was clear he had more to say and she might as well get it over with in one go . |
| 13 | 2.41 He went on to say that it should not be assumed that the wife 's dependency ought to be calculated on the footing that it would have ceased when her husband ceased earning before he reached 65 . |
| 14 | And sometimes Hywel goes out in the day with his gun and he shoots rabbits and pigeons and crows and foxes , and some he brings home to eat , and some he hangs in the hedges to remind the world that there is death . |
| 15 | It was from something on a thin silver chain around her neck , and after snapping it free he stood up to inspect his find in the available light . |
| 16 | When they moved from one field to another he leaned down to unlatch and open gates , and as the bay gelding went through the grey mare followed dutifully . |
| 17 | Slightly less competitive than a Hillman Hunter and a good deal less reliable it has yet to race . |
| 18 | Has Collimore outside him and Collimore drives his cross in and is cleared by Hill Thomson playing it back in , difficult one for Greyson and he was a little bit fortunate I think there to find Thomson who 's given it away anyway . |
| 19 | The report suggests there is a glut of exstudents from 1990 and 1991 who have yet to find work , and these are adding to the problems faced by the most recently qualified . |
| 20 | She has always been interested , and taken part , in physical exercise , and was introduced to Medau through Joan Daniels ' first class in 1966 ; June enjoyed it so much she went on to train and qualified as a Medau teacher in 1974 . |
| 21 | The July 9 resolution annulled the mandates of 15 deputies , mainly from the Equal Rights ( Ravnopraviye ) faction , claiming that from May 1990 to August 1991 they attempted unlawfully to replace the Latvian government and eliminate the drive towards Latvian independence . |
| 22 | From April 1st anyone found not to have followed guidelines on making VAT claims and payments will be liable to a penalty that could cost them and extra 30% plus interest on any unpaid tax . |
| 23 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp has had second thoughts about its planned workforce cuts and realises that as it intends to hire 10,000 new graduates over the period to 1997 , it will have to get rid of 43,000 people rather than the 33,000 it announced earlier to meet its target of 200,000 by 1997 . |
| 24 | They parted nine years ago and the split distressed him so much he vowed not to get seriously involved with another woman for a very long time . |
| 25 | When she retired from the RCM in 1948 she went on to run the Violet Melchet Infant Welfare Centre near Sloane Square , a job she held for the next twenty years . |
| 26 | Close to , she discovered , Pete smelled of carbolic soap , a dreadful turn-off , and when he kissed her in the dark it was so wet and sloppy she longed only to search for her handkerchief and wipe her mouth dry . |
| 27 | After that she settled down to rest properly . |
| 28 | Right that you know how to spell you know how to spell kit like a football kit or your gym kit . |
| 29 | Because they said , Ah fine I know where to go for my meat . |
| 30 | 250 yds later , pick up path on left which climbs up to regain cliff-top . |