Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , they do rather want to take in a show , but we 'll have to see what 's open . |
| 2 | You only got to walk into a room , people like you , and you can talk with anyone , you understand things , but when … |
| 3 | At a time when neither the French army nor fiscal arrangements to meet its needs had been sufficiently developed to respond to a new military situation , the only possible response was none the less to call traditional forces together to form an army with which to intercept and , it was hoped , to defeat the English . |
| 4 | It only wants to go for a little 'un now and I 'll say , right that dog 'll be out the door . |
| 5 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 6 | A series of hijackings and bomb hoaxes in the west of the city was apparently designed to act as a diversion as a mass escape was made . |
| 7 | The child receives no interest from the parent and so starts to behave in a way to gain more attention regardless of the fact that it is negative and unpleasant . |
| 8 | A leader can only achieve results through other people and in doing so needs to draw on a range of different styles such as Directive ( see page 53 ) , Consultative ( see page 38 ) , Collaborative ( see page 32 ) , and Delegation ( see page 49 ) . |
| 9 | By impacting with neighbouring particles they vibrate about a locus , and only appear to remain in a fixed position . |
| 10 | Now she 's on powerful drugs to suppress the problem … and she only has to cope with a one or two fits each day . |
| 11 | When the chip is incorporated into a smart card and inserted into a mock up cash machine , the user only has to speak into a microphone to be recognized and given the cash . |
| 12 | ‘ Beautiful , desirable … the kind of woman who only has to walk into a room in order to arouse the predator inside every man there . ’ |
| 13 | The reader only has to glance at a good modern textbook of infant development ( say , Bremner 's Infancy ) to get the main message : very young humans are prodigiously skilled at picking up geometric and social information , and this can be seen both informally ( a neonate turning to a voice ) and in the laboratory . |
| 14 | There are , however , several sites which apparently came to depend upon a range of processing and manufacturing activities , over and above the normal level of economic provision . |
| 15 | ‘ She was out of the oxygen tent earlier- and her temperature was coming down with the antibiotics but then when she came to … she opened her eyes and suddenly seemed to go into a panic . |
| 16 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 17 | The arguments given above when taken together seem to lead to a contradiction . |
| 18 | A heavy drinker , obsessive gambler and renowned conversationalist , Bacon frequently felt that his work was misinterpreted : ‘ You 've only got to go into a butcher 's shop , like Harrod 's food hall . |
| 19 | Anyway , she was only going to look at a cottage . |
| 20 | Watkin would have pride of place as St George while Ranulf the rat-catcher eagerly agreed to put on a costume and act the role of the dragon . |
| 21 | Zantford Granny Granville was a motor mechanic who decided that he wanted to get into aviation , so offered to work as a mechanic at East Boston Airport in exchange for flying lessons . |
| 22 | However , it suddenly began to erode as a result of the emergence of a Japanese competitor that managed to produce a product that was not only competitively priced but also of comparable or better quality . |
| 23 | At Midland we appreciate that businesses will only wish to draw upon a selection of our full range of Money Transmission Services and will require these to be tailored to individual requirements . |
| 24 | Recent evidence suggests however , that the introduction of modern technology does not necessarily have to lead to a continuing decline in the agricultural labour force . |
| 25 | It was two hours before he felt sufficiently recovered to stop at a phone box and report in . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm promising you a gracious occasion , so try to behave with a bit of savoir faire . |
| 27 | The reason some of them failed to go to the causal ward is because they used to do a little bit of begging , and if they 'd got enough money they would perhaps pay to go into a common lodging house . |
| 28 | As a result , Balder was only allowed to return for a certain period of time , only to disappear and return again . |
| 29 | er yes I was saying erm they only had the midwives in them days did n't they , to come for the birth and that and anyway my mother was was ill enough to have to send for a doctor . |
| 30 | However , in practice , if a Type I1 system were operating , the effect would be that Health Authorities would find very large parts of their budgets being compulsorily removed to pay for a much higher consumption of acute ( mainly elective surgery ) health care , with a consequential diminution of money available for other services . |