Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Goodness me , do n't start taking that as a compliment , she cares about everyone 's feelings , she 's an archetypal victim , she 's an absolute fool about other people 's feelings , and let me warn you , I may as well warn you , the more she dislikes somebody , the more somebody annoys her , the more careful she is not to hurt their feelings , in fact the only people she is ever rude to are people like me and Gabriel and Papa , I mean people she cares for enough not to worry about being fair to . |
| 2 | If that idea proves feasible , they could zombify most of Europe for long enough to walk in unresisted . ’ |
| 3 | All avid travellers , they return from their journeys with yet more to add to their exotic collection of objects and furniture . |
| 4 | They come from all over to drink at the Bulls Head in Craswall , on the Herefordshire Wales border . |
| 5 | ‘ They came from all over to stay with us , and when they came once , they 'd always come back , the same families year after year . |
| 6 | ‘ People travelled from far away to come to him to have their hair cut . |
| 7 | This woman has come from far away to write about your people . |
| 8 | In the Osma system , a small hole in each pipe connector tells you when you have pushed the pipe in far enough to allow for expansion : 10mm is normally allowed . |
| 9 | And he went on more explicitly to speak of that period ‘ some ten or even twenty years ago . ’ |
| 10 | It 'll be worth putting a couple of pavers on there just to cope with the track of the pa er the wheels going in . |
| 11 | A teacher , employed by Orkney Islands Council , she said there was an atmosphere of great insecurity amongst council employees about there right to protest at that time . |
| 12 | Topaz made up her mind at once not to cringe from Beatrice . |
| 13 | Angered by suggestions that his conduct was inexplicable and that he had not offered any constructive criticism during a 3½ hour inquest into Yorkshire 's dismal summer , Boycott claimed that the cricket sub-committee would not accept any form of responsibility : ‘ They have been in charge for five of the last six years but will not agree that they are at least partly to blame for the fact that Yorkshire cricket is in a mess . ’ |
| 14 | General Leclerc , as a soldier , was not , at least not to begin with , and believed not only that the reconquest of Tonkin , even in part , was impossible but that a negotiated settlement was essential even if it conceded independence . |
| 15 | You should aim at very least to talk to two or three financial institutions or other specialists such as insurance brokers and make it clear to all of them that you are doing so . |
| 16 | Creggan had learnt by now not to talk of his past , or to try and explain about the Zoo he had escaped from . |
| 17 | ‘ I should have learned by now never to rely on anybody . ’ |