Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with . |
| 2 | My heart is in the Wallowa Valley , and I want to go back there to live . |
| 3 | And er I want to go back now to get the money . |
| 4 | Those that use an ordinary seed tray can be used to germinate most seeds that you want to sow fairly thickly to provide plenty of seedlings for pricking out into ordinary seed trays later . |
| 5 | Richards said : ‘ Things have n't gone well for me this season because of injuries but I want to stay on here to finish the job . |
| 6 | Others use optical detectors , which seem to respond more quickly to smoke from smouldering fires such as those involving upholstered furniture . |
| 7 | The whole incident was a very sore point with my crew , who had worked very hard for long hours on this one , and it was a classic illustration of how our laws often seem to lean over backwards to protect the lawbreakers . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman might reflect on the fact that those Scotsmen who come down here to represent English constituencies are the best of the Scotsmen , who choose to come down here to represent one of the 523 constituencies in this country . |
| 9 | ‘ And start to think how best to welcome fifteen enemy ships who want to offload an army . ’ |
| 10 | A daughter ( or more rarely a son ) who has never left the parental home , or who has returned after widowhood or divorce to stay on indefinitely to care for an elderly parent or parents , does not make this choice automatically . |
| 11 | As one of the company 's newer businesses we have to work much harder to establish the working methods and systems that get the job right for the customer . |
| 12 | You have to work much harder to stay friends with them . ’ |
| 13 | In particular we need to know how best to formulate models of behaviour to apply to such data and how best to test whether these models are consistent with the evidence . |
| 14 | Foxes and other hunting animals need to know how far to pounce to catch their prey . |
| 15 | ‘ We have to look very carefully to make sure standards of the exam are being maintained , otherwise qualifications will be devalued , ’ he said . |
| 16 | The report , by Jérôme Dourdin , noted in particular how tiring and discouraging it was for visitors to walk all the way out to the Pavillon de Flore to see the sculptures and then have to hike back again to visit the other collections in the Museum . |
| 17 | With a mortgage , you have to run very fast to stay in the same place — like the Red queen . |
| 18 | Having decided to hold as little of their wealth as possible in ‘ money ’ form , savers then have to decide how best to invest their savings . |
| 19 | You need to sheet out considerably to slow down and then sheet in again to do the turn . |
| 20 | The killing is repeated on ritual occasions , perhaps at first because the protection the totem gives them is not enough , or because they need to band together again to re-enact the crime which binds them all together , although they use a surrogate for the crime , not the actual father again . |