Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After two trials which saw some established crowns toppled , Mains ' men played three tests against a World XV put together rather haphazardly to celebrate the New Zealand centennial , and the two against Ireland . |
| 2 | I think my relationship is a fairly normal one , but I do find myself bending over backwards not to erm use any of the sort of additional knowledge I have of education , and if there are things going on that perhaps I think that there might be better ways of doing it , then I bend over backwards not to give that kind of impression or to suggest it at all , because it seems to me that it 's going to make the relationship with the school or with the teachers erm a rather awkward one , and I do n't think it will good for my children . |
| 3 | Other forms of life on earth today seem much more closely to resemble what one knows , based on the fossil record , to have been their evolutionary ancestors of many million years past . |
| 4 | Delicate creamy-yellow ‘ E P Bowles ’ stays open just long enough to contrast beautifully with the pale mauve flowers and bright orange stamens of Crocus tommasinianus . |
| 5 | I then tell them a story which they act out : one day the children all set off home only to find that a great big hole has opened up in the playground . |
| 6 | I get far enough up to see the house and identify it by its position and the garden furniture , then I climb back down , go to the wall and jump up , catching hold of the concrete ridge tiles on top of the wall and pulling myself up . |
| 7 | You know quite well how to sit examinations without any guidance , and you have no intention of following anyone 's advice . |
| 8 | Natural selection obviously favours the most successful caterpillars , and these are the ones that hatch out early enough to get their jaws into the young , tender , comparatively tannin-free leaves . |
| 9 | He actually suggested he and I go down there together to look it over . |
| 10 | No doubt it is because West German voters know their votes will count that they turn out so willingly to use them . |
| 11 | God forgive me , you think , as you try desperately to get rid of them — and try equally hard not to mention anything about blood transfusions . |
| 12 | I try even harder not to think about what he might do to me if he ever got the chance . |
| 13 | They moved to a flat in Kensington that Ken financed for them — to the point that he made Carry On Regardless solely to recoup some of his losses . |
| 14 | For that is how they are supposed to function , that is how they publicly claim that they attempt to function , and , as we shall see below , that is the normal way to justify their authority ( i.e. not by assuming that they always succeed in acting in the ideal way , but on the ground that they do so often enough to justify their power ) , and naturally authorities are judged and their performance evaluated by comparing them to the ideal . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , I know , ’ conceded Lydia , ‘ but then I dash off somewhere else to see something different . ’ |
| 16 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 17 | But when I was there there were once one instant is er er the man on watch in the morning he spotted a floating mine come in right down to close to the rock and er er it anchored just about er er a quarter of a mile or maybe two hundred yards off the rock off the tower and er of well when a mine anchors of course it becomes er alive . |
| 18 | Desire alone never enough to get machine started , he wrote . |
| 19 | ‘ Is it all right if we come back here again to sleep ? |
| 20 | Music might be shit , but life itself is fully equipped to deliver magic if you stick around long enough to wait for it . |
| 21 | The groups in Evallonia — the supporters of the romantic Prince John , the Juventus league of disaffected youth and its leader , the dashing Countess Araminta Troyos , the sinister Mastrovin and his anarchic associates — serve almost too obviously to express once more Buchan 's fears for the post-war world of the 1920s and after . |
| 22 | ‘ Though I have n't always enough to do . |
| 23 | I have n't anywhere else to go . ’ |
| 24 | I have n't anywhere else to take him . " |
| 25 | ‘ So far we have identified almost 50 separate groups who work closely enough together to benefit from this type of training , ’ said E.S . |
| 26 | Notoriously young children learn very quickly how to recite numbers in the right order without having any clear notion of their " cardinal " properties , and it is only gradually that they begin to associate their respective positions in the number series with a relation of magnitude . |