Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Bel always wanted to go to Mars . ’
2 The combined Staines/Nine Elms team somehow managed to finish with a negative score , which earned them the title of ‘ most sporting team ’ , and saved head office teams from occupying the last two positions !
3 Certainly the intermediate standing of many of these men is plain to see ; the alternating qualifications of £10 in lands and £100 in goods seem specifically designed to cater for small-town merchants and the less affluent London ones , conceding statutory confirmation of the observation that they ‘ often change estate with gentlemen ’ .
4 Apparent indifference , quiescence and apathy might be the product of subjection to power which they feel too constrained to object to , and indeed which they may not even recognize .
5 SPEED Only threatened to blossom after indifferent start .
6 Fergus had fallen back across the table and Taliesin and Fribble both moved to stand between him and the Lad .
7 Schnabel originally intended to collaborate on the film with the Polish director Lech Majewski , who is said to have interviewed around one hundred Basquiat acquaintances and written the screenplay 's first draft .
8 Her sotto voce remark unfortunately chanced to coincide with a lull in the conversation , so that it was clearly audible not only to Karelius but most of the others .
9 But they 're making progress ; each generation gets better , so we 've all got to hang in there . ’
10 Remember , we 've all got to fight for the future now . ’
11 You know , you 've only got to go to Eastern Europe and China , you know , these places have been completely erm , insulated from any world trade .
12 Yeah I 've only got to go to the bank and got to pay something for Gary , I 've got to pay in a cheque for Gary again cos he 's ever so low again this year , this week , this month
13 You 've only got to go to the Job Centre and see all the jobs .
14 Well you 've only got to go onto Longrow Smithy Row and see those trees there they 're like toy town trees .
15 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 .
16 I 've only got to go round another three times !
17 They think that you 've only got to feed in your data and out pops an Identikit of sonny complete with prints , collar-size and taste in pop music . ’
18 well you , you 've only got to get to subsid science
19 You 've only got to think of the career of erm , Audrey Hepburn who died today , or yesterday , whenever it was .
20 You 've only got to look at it — Gasworks standard .
21 You 've only got to look at history … slavery which led into colonialism which developed into full-blown imperialism , right on up to the present-day immigration policies .
22 Racism just boils down to ruling-class propaganda ; you 've only got to look at the popular Tory press , churning it out day after day , all owned and controlled by capitalists who 've got a direct interest in setting white workers against black and undermining the unity of the working class .
23 You 've only got to look at Wimbledon .
24 You 've only got to look at it .
25 You 've only got to look at the history of religion , especially Christianity , to see that at as the guys who went round flagellating themselves also went around killing other people if they did n't believe in the right religion and that unfortunately er happens all too often .
26 Very last overhead , and you 've only got to look at half of it .
27 ‘ … you 've only got to look at his star sign . ’
28 You 've only got to look at the table .
29 Well you 've only got to look at adverts in the ruddy paper for
30 As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in
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