Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , out of the blue , as she was getting ready for bed on the evening before Kirsty was due to go off on holiday , Mrs Aitken tapped on Shiona 's bedroom door . |
| 2 | ‘ Are n't you and Charles due to go off on holiday soon ? ’ she queried , when tea and biscuits were duly dispensed to Lucy and she could sit down on a wicker-backed chair and sip her own . |
| 3 | About a week before Michael was due to go back into hospital , we managed a few days holiday in the Lake District . |
| 4 | It would be awful to sit around in pitch black . |
| 5 | ‘ I had to leave when my father died , to look after my mother , and it was n't until the late Sixties that I was free to go back to work . |
| 6 | Picnickers explain that they are prepared to carry on in spite of the odds . |
| 7 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |
| 8 | It 's becoming sort of fairly topical erm where there , and it is , more perhaps related to the fear of crime than the actual crime itself , where , people are afraid to go out for fear that they 're going to be personally attacked , whether it be you know , answering the door at night in their own homes , or actually , you know , going to their cars . |
| 9 | The television , for many old people who are afraid to go out at night , an important link with the outside world and the sources of ent entertainment . |
| 10 | Surely it 's true that everyone who changes his or her life because of crime — from those afraid to go out at night to those afraid to go into the parks they pay for — surely these people have been denied a basic civil right . |
| 11 | And this trend has sparked frequent claims that many people are living in fear , often too afraid to go out at night . |
| 12 | He called for more street patrols after a 38pc increase in crime was reported , saying women and the elderly were afraid to go out after dark as well as some other men . |
| 13 | They are afraid to stay in in case their doors are kicked in , but they are also afraid to go out in case their homes are done in while they are out . |
| 14 | Snuff are what the Manics sneeringly refer to as ‘ a T-shirt band ’ — meaning a group of young southern Englishmen forever willing to amble about in Transit van land and getting the occasional play on rubbish indie radio shows that nobody with any taste listens to . |
| 15 | So many houses have been burgled here and old people are afraid to come out at night . |
| 16 | Price was working in Sheffield but was willing to help out from time to time . |
| 17 | Yes , I thought , but then there 's , but briefly er Sue , I was going to wanted to point out in fact er you just er if you do n't mind Paul I 'll just go back |
| 18 | But it would be unrealistic to leave out of account the fact that Pilkington was a knight of the king 's body and one , moreover , owed a favour for his support of Edward in 1471 . |
| 19 | But it would be unrealistic to leave out of account the fact that Pilkington was a knight of the king 's body and one , moreover , owed a favour for his support of Edward in 1471 . |
| 20 | There were girls who were prepared to put up with fat . |
| 21 | Piper knows Benn is prone to run out of gas if he ca n't get through in the early rounds . |
| 22 | He pushed open the door and scrambled out of the car , careful to keep out of sight of the house . |
| 23 | The demonstrators were prepared to lie down in front of trucks carrying concrete for the foundations of the mast , at Cairn Papple , near Bathgate , in West Lothian . |
| 24 | They are afraid to stay in in case their doors are kicked in , but they are also afraid to go out in case their homes are done in while they are out . |
| 25 | That is why we must oppose anti-porn forces in whatever guise they appear ; which means being prepared to face up to pornography , to understand why we like it and why we find that so shameful . |
| 26 | Yet , during the late 1930s , Labour 's clear hostility towards European fascism , and its support of the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War confirmed it to be a party which was prepared to face up to fascism . |
| 27 | BOBBY CHARLTON , the former Manchester United and England forward , who is now a club director , made it clear yesterday that he would be willing to take over as chairman ‘ if the right person asked me ’ . |
| 28 | For the purposes of this judgment it is unnecessary to set out in detail the concerns felt by the local authority about the placement of the four children with the foster mother . |
| 29 | Unable to compete , domestic farmers at one stage looked set to go out of business . |
| 30 | Doctors have never found it easy to go along with reform and were dragged , kicking and screaming , into the Bevan-style NHS in the first place . |