Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb base] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few hours ' sleep , and he 'd come up fresh and begin to learn the system around here . |
| 2 | That was undoubtedly a legacy of her childhood , she thought resignedly — a throw-back to the days when she and her mother had been forced to hold their heads high and attempt to ignore the pointing fingers . |
| 3 | The revenue budget then , there 's a summary attached to appendix two here and the detail of the budget is , if the members , if the members are so interested and want to see the the spent . |
| 4 | Since the identity of the lover — the woman — becomes submerged in the other lover 's desire for her/his body , one of the two may become afraid and want to kill the other . |
| 5 | Brook staff treat each client as an individual and try to help the person to make her or his own decisions and find solutions to particular problems . |
| 6 | They are bored and start to explore the house . |
| 7 | How often does a bag get lost and fail to make a connecting flight ? |
| 8 | Be friendly and try to give the impression that you are a person of integrity who knows his or her own mind , and are not likely to abandon a deal half-way through . |
| 9 | 2–5–1846 " considering the great evils from tippling houses , and also the number of these licensed , judged it proper to bring the matter before the Justices of the Peace by Petition that they might use their power in surpressing as many as possible and refuse to increase the number . " |
| 10 | I hope I never go deaf and have to wear a hearing-aid ; it will sound like the Atlantic rollers crashing up over the rocks at Land 's End . |
| 11 | ‘ I am two months ’ pregnant and need to get an abortion quickly as I 'm going to a big bash next week with my boy-friend . ’ |
| 12 | Why not be progressive and try to take the game to new areas of the world ? |
| 13 | If , like some sprinters , you are short and stocky and decide to wear the really skintight , knee-length shorts , it can be somewhat indecent . |
| 14 | These exports are still , to be sure , ‘ dependent ‘ , in the terms of the matrix in chapter 1 , but they are none the less valuable and help to explain the asymmetry of the multi-nationals ’ share of investment and their share of trade . |
| 15 | [ I ] n relation to each other , they are incoherent and fail to represent a hierarchy of seriousness . |
| 16 | Better to be casual and try to show no surprise . |
| 17 | If our admiration be true , genuine , and progressive we will in the end come to admire the good and cease to admire the bad . |
| 18 | Colour some of the fondant or marzipan ( about three-quarters ) black and use to mould a sheep 's head , dusting your hands with icing sugar or cornflour . |
| 19 | There are a number of deep paths here , since this is a route to many other peaks and low-level walks , but cross the Allt Coire an t-Sneachda and start to ascend the craggy spur that hugs the western side of the corrie . |
| 20 | and the eighty eight group in favour of happy and have to do the best , certainly |
| 21 | These may seem problematic and appear to put the school on the defensive , passively accepting what has been decided elsewhere . |
| 22 | After going through the list in the known order , be bold and venture to have a go when they are in random order . |
| 23 | Where there is a mix of your own grandchildren and stepgrandchildren , it can be hard to be even-handed and learn to accept the new arrivals . |
| 24 | Sometimes they go to the opposite extreme and seem to have a very lax superego because they relied on their parents to punish them , and subsequently have no internalization . |
| 25 | Do the best you can , hope for the best with the unpredictable and try to keep a sense of humour . |
| 26 | We are very flexible and try to offer the staff what they want on a day-to-day basis . ’ |
| 27 | Critics of aromatherapy have pointed out that the sense of smell becomes quickly exhausted as the olfactory cells in the nose soon become saturated and cease to detect the aroma , so the effects of aromatherapy can only be short-lived . |
| 28 | Instead of getting hysterical over the remote possibility of gutter-level heroin addiction , we have to contemplate something almost as hard and much more likely — that our children will sample what 's available and live to tell the tale . |
| 29 | We 're very pleased and need to catch the pushers and users of crack . |
| 30 | They tend to be kind and wish to give the candidates as much help as they can , although there is no compulsion on them to cover every detail of the syllabus . |