Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regular staff , sometimes nominally of the same grade , provide a sort of supervision for them in the initial period and themselves tend to find that during the peak period they are doing , or doing more consistently , more responsible jobs than during the rest of the year . |
| 2 | This does n't mean that you should take time off work ; quite the opposite , as it is preferable that you remain occupied while on the diet . |
| 3 | He recommended excursions into the surrounding countryside , and for his class of people he could think of nowhere better to go than to the grounds of the ancestral mansion of Studley park , some ten miles from the town . |
| 4 | It is what they want to learn and at the speed they want to learn it . |
| 5 | Right , it 's forty five over sixty , you want to change that into a decimal , what do you do ? |
| 6 | You divide the top number by the bottom number , so , supposing you 've got fifty seven minutes and you want to change that into a decimal of an hour , what fraction of an hour is it ? |
| 7 | You want to check that on the calculator , see if that one works ? |
| 8 | And on the other hand , what are changes such that we want to say that at the end of the change there is just no me left there at all and I 've been replaced by something else . |
| 9 | I have not wavered in the slightest degree in my attitude to this war , nor have I changed my mind as to the need of a final and complete settlement , but I want to say that in a war in which losses of such terrible magnitude are being imposed on all the Nations it appears to me not only wise but imperative that every country should use its political weapon to supplement all its military organisation , if by so doing it can defeat the enemy . |
| 10 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |
| 11 | They further assert that in the course of the pay-off Commissioner Zen 's identity was revealed and that the gang were so incensed that they assaulted him . |
| 12 | But after a few days he saw the sparks of it begin to reappear and within a week Mould was chattering away as usual and ran about the school thinking of a new plan . |
| 13 | I 've no intention of standing by and watching Emma get hurt because of a deadly man-trap like you . ’ |
| 14 | I concede that it will do for judging in retrospect the spontaneity beyond the margins of my rationality , as when jumping like an instinctive animal for the side of the road , and for such primitive choices as the child 's refusal of another helping ; but I continue to insist that at the centre of me I differ from the child in having escaped being restricted to choice between spontaneous goals . |
| 15 | Try telling that to a woman who bleeds five days in every month for thirty , thirty five , forty years of her life . |
| 16 | The big-hitting Sam Snead once remarked : ‘ You drive for show but you putt for dough , ’ but try telling that to the fans who flocked to Daly 's banner in numbers unseen since ‘ Arnie 's Army ’ . |
| 17 | But try telling that to the actor who reads : ‘ He delivers every line with a monotonous tenor bark as if addressing an audience of deaf eskimos . ’ |
| 18 | First to give an undertaking that he will consider this matter very fully and in consultation with the Home Secretary between now and the report stage and secondly , that his consultation will extend across Your Lordships House , because I do think that in the light of the discussion which we have already h had there is a consensus emerging among Your Lordships which had will be worth my Noble friend following up . |
| 19 | Many permutations do exist but as a general rule , the matching of items clause should apply where the remaining undamaged parts of a set or suite can still fulfill the role for which they were purchased . |
| 20 | Anyway , we do know that on the day he was murdered you were some distance away from Edinburgh , but it was a good pretext to arrest and detain you should you attempt to complain to your masters in London ! ’ |
| 21 | But , however innocent his presence at Grandmont may have been , we do know that by the winter of early 1183 Geoffrey was playing a very devious game indeed . |
| 22 | I 'm all ready if I got my handbag , but when I start walking because of the cars being broken into I do n't carry a handbag , you see , I just carry money in my pocket . |
| 23 | Macmillan 's " War Diaries " do not indicate when the decision that he should visit Klagenfurt was taken , but they do show that on the morning of 13 May , instead of returning to Caserta , he flew on to Klagenfurt . |
| 24 | My memory is n't what it was ; but I do remember that at the time the aircraft was considered the fastest in the Middle East . |
| 25 | But I do remember that in every room he showed me I made sure I was near to the door , the safest point of exit if he tried anything . |
| 26 | Of course you could try a tantalising headline but do remember that in the first instance you have to attract the attention and interest of the journalist or editor , who is not going to be tempted quite as easily as the reader might be . |
| 27 | Yes , and I do hope that at the same time that we 've been talking about how relatively practical religion has become , that we shall remember the mystery which it witnesses to . |
| 28 | Nobody is pushing Anna , but Christine and Tony do hope that by the time she moves into mainstream education , she will have caught up . |
| 29 | But it is of concern and I do hope that in the next forthcoming er house er when the the house sits in the forthcoming rounds , that they will be mindful of the representations which have been made nationally and that the Police service and the proposals contained , particularly in the Police bill , will not be fully implemented in the way that they 're currently proposed on the white paper today . |
| 30 | Now to go back to the example of the cooker , if you do say that in the showrooms you will certainly be asked to sign a legal document . |