Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not the case that social dislocation and uncertainty necessarily make people turn to God . |
| 2 | Ready made cabinets come in a huge choice of finishes , colours , and measurements . |
| 3 | But Forest , who only let Walker go in the first place because he had a release clause in his contract , will also be in the hunt . |
| 4 | Now he was happy enough to let Rickards impose on his solitude to use him as a sounding board . |
| 5 | Not only did factors draw on it in some years for London , but later in the century the rise of Plymouth as a naval centre provided a counter attraction for corn from its eastern half which might otherwise have gone into the increasingly populous western mining districts . |
| 6 | just as students differ in preferred methods of learning , so do teachers differ in preferred methods of teaching . |
| 7 | One lot of As holds that not only do girls succeed in primary school , they continue to succeed in secondary school . |
| 8 | Not only do numbers diminish with distance , but it can be shown that there is a statistical over-selection of spouses who live close and corresponding under-selection of those who live far away . |
| 9 | Not only do children live in separate houses , they often move many miles from their parents in order to follow work or careers , and the mutual support they could formerly give each other has been accordingly diminished . |
| 10 | Just as the classical and baroque triumphed in the design of state capitols and ultimately fed back into railway stations , so did Australia cling to forms which had never entirely been superseded as the official architectural language of imperialism . |
| 11 | Not only does Nithard say in which vernacular languages the two kings addressed their men ( though he records the addresses in Latin ) , but he gives the ensuing oaths in vernacular texts that are among the earliest examples of Old High German and Old French . |
| 12 | Because they know that to do so makes smoking look like a grown-up thing to do … at the moment people are being encouraged to smoke and I regard that as an immoral activity . ’ |
| 13 | Recently deserted by her husband Cruncher ( ‘ He left me for a wee young thing of 58 ’ ) she 's found it hard enough to make ends meet in the past . |
| 14 | I fucking let milk boil over the other night and I ca n't get it off . |
| 15 | Mr McCulloh says the shakeout has already seen prices rise from a low of 40 cents a pound for live beef to nearly 90 cents this spring . |
| 16 | there , I do n't know , I do n't know what you 're gon na do , cos whatever it is you 're not doing it , it 's just letting time go by are n't ya , treading water if you like . |
| 17 | You ca n't learn much by just hearing people talk about their own experiences . |
| 18 | So why do n't we just let things develop at their own pace ? ’ |
| 19 | No longer did MPs defer to the Speaker , grant courtesy titles or bow when they left ; these days it was the loudest voice that got a hearing . |
| 20 | But what exactly did Schleiermacher understand by that ? |
| 21 | Paula had brought her friend Louise home with her and they would be sharing the sort of older-girl talk that always made Sally feel like an intruder — and a very gauche , childish intruder at that . |
| 22 | As he turned , the leg was straight up in the air , a position I 'd only ever seen Springsteen get into voluntarily . |
| 23 | She even once let Alison sew on a button and observed Alison 's gratitude . |
| 24 | Did you ever have commissions say for big houses ? |
| 25 | Morel hunters in-the-know rarely reveal the locations of good hunting grounds , and the abundance of any year 's crop seems to depend upon a great many variables such as : how cold a winter preceded , how gradually did temperatures warm from winter to spring , does the soil have adequate moisture ? |
| 26 | Only once does Aristophanes play on the possibility that the demagogues , for all their ‘ philodemos ’ pretensions , were actually an undemocratic force : in the Wasps ( 715ff. ) ‘ they ( the demagogues ) insincerely promise to give you , that is the people , corn doles , and even to hand over Euboia to you ’ . |
| 27 | Union representatives can of course , also make representations direct to the headteacher and/or governing body . |
| 28 | Huge concoctions of gumbo and jambalaya , crawfish pie and Andouille sausage , against a backdrop of swamps and snakes , street-cars and Creole Queens , suit the postcard , throw-it-all-in format of this particular culinary genre , and life in the Big Easy clearly made Floyd feel at home . |
| 29 | Microchips also let things happen at inhuman speed . |
| 30 | Others display their feelings of relaxation by standing on one leg , as you 've probably seen flamingoes do in nature films . |