Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Royal Navy spokesman said : ‘ They appear to have gone off course and were about five miles from shore . ’ |
| 2 | AD 160 across the courtyard building , after which it was not rebuilt although the baths appear to have remained in use . |
| 3 | ‘ You appear to have kept in touch with many of them . ’ |
| 4 | In the Department of Environment in London and in the Department of Energy and the Department of Health they appear to have quit at lunchtime . |
| 5 | These two key members appear to have acted on behalf of , and in the name of , the committee by negotiating contributions to specific sections of the proposal with the representatives of the sectional interests . |
| 6 | In the earlier series of auctions , there were large differences ( in terms of yield ) between minimum and maximum accepted bids but market operators appear to have learned by experience and , with the four auctions of 1991 , the difference was never more than three basis points . |
| 7 | These giant dustbins , some the size of a small garage , appear to have multiplied beyond count in recent years . |
| 8 | Some donors have explicit philosophies that they seek to see adopted as policy . |
| 9 | Liz Headleand stared at the scene with a marked lack of dismay , as Kate Armstrong knelt down and started to dust the earth off Giles , looking up to ask anyone who might be interested about the little blobs of white polystyrene that always seem to come mixed with bulb fibre : ‘ What is this stuff ? ’ asked Kate , ‘ I 've often wondered , ’ as she proceeded to re-pot a hyacinth with one hand while stroking Giles 's shoulder with the other . |
| 10 | ‘ But I happen to have fallen in love with your mother and , well , you 're part of the package , if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 11 | Both the proposed Crickhowell and Builth Wells by-passes seem to have gone into hibernation . |
| 12 | These seem to have increased in number since the Support Services Review , and some have only tangential relevance ( if any ) to the sorts of enquiries which my staff can routinely handle . |
| 13 | For young countrywomen able and willing to move to London , however , money wages in domestic service seem to have moved in pace with prices and even to have moved quite sharply upward from around 1800.57 . |
| 14 | They met several times more up to 1985 , but seem to have remained in touch until the last few months of Ceauşescu 's rule . |
| 15 | As , despite years of trying , I have not managed to find a plastic heater holder sucker that actually works ( and the rubber ones seem to have passed into oblivion ) I would attach heaters and the internal stat to the rear glass with blobs of silicone sealant . |
| 16 | Certainly geography helped and prevailing economic conditions played an important part , but most towns seem to have come into existence as a result of conscious decisions . |
| 17 | The quality I 'm referring to was something common enough here in Latin America , but very rare in the land of booze and animal fats , where the women seem to have taken to heart mad Hamlet 's advice to let their honesty admit no discourse to their beauty . |
| 18 | Whatever resentments they have stacked up they seem to have transformed into energy , driving them to learn , campaign , debate , organise and design . |
| 19 | What Morrissey still ca n't come to terms with is that now , for some strange reason , hordes of people profess to have fallen in love with him and previous to the band , he often states , no girl ever even took him into consideration . |
| 20 | Are these the gifts you so grandly claim to have bestowed on mankind ? |
| 21 | AN INVESTIGATION is to be mounted at BAFTA into the award of a prize to the Granada drama Prime Suspect after four of the seven jury members claim to have voted for Channel 4 's GBH . |
| 22 | AN INVESTIGATION is to be mounted at BAFTA into the award of a prize to the Granada drama Prime Suspect after four of the seven jury members claim to have voted for Channel 4 's GBH . |
| 23 | NIO bid to placate blamed for terror |
| 24 | So prices have tend to have fallen on world markets for agricultural goods because of support right , and they 've also become a lot more volatile and that , and that is the er the source of the international frustration with erm the common agricultural policy and this is why we 've got agriculture er being introduced into the G A T T. Not only does it impose huge costs on domestic tax payers and consumers , it also in incurs erm a large cost on third country exporters , right now if you think that most of those countries may well be developing countries and agricultural output is their only source of foreign exchange erm then er the policies of the rich countries in the West are erm a actively erm hindering the development prospects of developing countries alright and that may not be the desired intention . |
| 25 | One school of thought within psychology is that we tend to get hooked into behaviour patterns if they produce intermittent rewards . |
| 26 | Obviously this is n't always the case with ex-offenders — even those who are like this tend to get branded by society , and so do n't get given a chance to start anew . |
| 27 | Field officers rely on senior officials not simply for their own advancement , but for their support in disputes with dischargers and in cases which field staff wish to see taken to court . |
| 28 | You have to turn left at traffic |
| 29 | Because the theme of betrayal figures so often in fable , myth and legend throughout all cultures , it seems that it is something we must all know about at one level or another and need to have formalized in story form . |
| 30 | ‘ First of all we need to get rid of unemployment and emigration and keep our young talent at home . |