Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forecasts about the course of democracy tend to swing from optimism to despair with alarming speed . |
| 2 | Eating the right kind of food and having a balanced diet is important not only for weight control but for the well-being of skin , hair and every other part of us that we tend to treat in terms of beauty rather than health care . |
| 3 | So I opened it and it 's one of these things er if you book to go to Dublin before May the , whatever , the end of May |
| 4 | I asked her about the letter and she said she could n't remember anything about it but she filled in something when they came back from Belfast and she said open it , so I opened it and it 's one of these things er if you book to go to Dublin before May the whatever , the end of May , then if you went again in the Autumn , you you get er fifty pounds worth of vouchers or something , you go half price . |
| 5 | If , like me , you tend to sit on mountains of paper , and rely on your memory to root out a reference , then you will need to be strong and discipline yourself to filing items away as soon as you have finished with them , either in folders or binders or in cabinet or box file , depending on the amount of space you have available . |
| 6 | The Scotsman reported on I September that " members of the Women Compositors " , Readers " and Monotype Operators " Union intend to remain at work in the event of a strike " . |
| 7 | Ballet simply does not figure in black or working-class lives ; such children tend to go into dance through rock music , reggae , discos — and that means modern dance . |
| 8 | Bruce was pale with the deep pallor that overworked CID tend to acquire in London in the dead of winter , seriously overtired and overweight . |
| 9 | After I have put the phone down I sit gazing at Kyle on the opposite side of the airwell . |
| 10 | The younger field men , doubtless reflecting their education in the natural sciences , tend to conceive of pollution as a relatively unproblematic phenomenon , as scientifically determinable , hence ‘ obvious ’ . |
| 11 | Opposition politicians on Sept. 5 alleged that senior officials were involved in corruption and influence peddling in relation to the privatization of state assets . |
| 12 | Her assignment for C 's Circus was to manipulate men of power and influence to work towards unity with the British Commonwealth in their desperate fight for world freedom . |
| 13 | Girls on mountains tend to come into contact with more amphibious life than our men folk , on account of our toilet arrangements . |
| 14 | Since all the females in a group tend to come into oestrus at around the same time , the male goat will have a busy two or three days . |
| 15 | Children tend to come into care after upsetting events at home , such as a mother 's illness or following the trauma of eviction and homelessness . |
| 16 | A I suspect the worms are Planarian Flatworms , which tend to appear in aquariums with large amounts of organic matter , particularly in the filter bed . |
| 17 | Which does n't mean I intend to leap into bed with you just because fate washed you up on my beach . |
| 18 | We intend to work in conjunction with the Musée des Arts de la Mode . |
| 19 | Although he talked about how ‘ we , as communists , essentially intend to work in harmony with nature ’ , he made it clear that this meant ‘ understanding and controlling the laws of nature … to place them at man 's service ’ . |
| 20 | I intend to concentrate on provision for the 18 per cent unstatemented pupils who remain in mainstream schools but who , as Warnock reminded us , have special needs . |
| 21 | Like most radio services , paging is limited by the regulatory authorities ' allocation of frequencies , which tend to differ from country to country . |
| 22 | Accordingly , we intend to provide in regulations for direct payments to start once that 100 per cent . |
| 23 | You say erm you want to go into sort of C colon my D I R |
| 24 | They all want to go to brothels in the evening and they think I know where they can be found . |
| 25 | I want to go to sleep for a month . |
| 26 | Intriguingly enough , the only way I can make Selina actually want to go to bed with me is by not wanting to go to bed with her . |
| 27 | A woman I could love as well as want to go to bed with . |
| 28 | No , I want to go to bed with you ! |
| 29 | Yeah because if you want to go to Southwell at the present moment you go on a bus and you got to wait two hours to get one back . |
| 30 | So you can imagine the sort of conversations we 're gon na have when Ray and Cynthia are talking about the distances between things and I 'm going to be saying you know if I want to go from Piccadilly to Tech house , it can take me at least half an hour . |