Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather like pathological ‘ organisation men ’ , they seem so addicted to bureaucracy that they ca n't get enough of it in their day jobs . |
| 2 | Peck steadfastly adhered to protocol and insisted that the gentleman give his name and address . |
| 3 | In what sense are faith and doubt closely related to knowledge ? |
| 4 | Surely , if there really were a knowable pre-life creator , such would have long since become truly known to humanity , and would not have remained a subject of speculation after many thousands of years . |
| 5 | Cross and continue up field , ignoring gate on right and bear slightly left to gate leading uphill to farm . |
| 6 | So we 've literally got to dove-tail this into whatever other current arrangements they have , including any other P H I they 've already got . |
| 7 | ‘ Had to go and leave my dandelions to look for you , now they 've all gone to sleep . ’ |
| 8 | You 've only got to bag it up and put it on the side of the road . |
| 9 | I 've just walked to school for fucking nuffink I have n't got a lesson |
| 10 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 11 | I do n't think you , you 've , you 've got to try in a way not to shut it off too much erm and yet it , i you 've just got to sort of be able to not shut it off but sort of create different areas |
| 12 | I mean , there are many , many cases of injustice around the world and , the West , the British government , ca n't be responsible for all of them , but there 's , there 's one particular case of Iraq , where we 've already gone to war , to , in the cause of democracy and freedom , and I do n't believe that when Saddam offends again as he does day by day , we can turn a blind eye . |
| 13 | You s you you 've indicat er you you 've sort of g given an impression that er this er this the centre h depends if you want to get a lot out of it , you 've really got to sort of work at it quite hard to er bring it up to anything together . |
| 14 | One of the problems that we 've suffered from in the past was some level of inconsistency which we 've now put to bed . |
| 15 | ( I have since called to mind G. K. Chesterton 's remark in Heretics that ideas are dangerous and most dangerous to the man of no ideas : ‘ the man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller . ’ ) |
| 16 | Other important casting centres have since come to light in Nigeria and some hundreds of castings have been analysed . |
| 17 | Inadequate knowledge of basic factors resulting in excessive or untimely tillage , improper implements , poor use of the right equipment , burning of crop residues , and excessive livestock grazing have all contributed to erosion on cultivated land … |
| 18 | Then , there 's never been a shortage of contributions for London 's musical guidebook ; have all helped to flesh out its pages , along with ‘ Kings Cross ’ , a song that the Pet Shop Boys wrote ( a ) ‘ Because it 's the London terminus you reach if you come down from the North-East ’ ; ( b ) Chris Lowe lived there ; and ( c ) ‘ It seemed like a good title about people waiting . |
| 19 | So it is also the diet to choose if you have sensibly taken to heart the well-established benefits of reducing fat intake . |
| 20 | Late that night , after the children have finally gone to bed , Felicity finds him lying full-length on the playroom floor once again , still absorbed . |
| 21 | And , giving his mum credit for his stylish success , he added : ‘ All the years of saying , ‘ You 're not going out like that , ’ have finally come to fruition . ’ |
| 22 | We have already referred to marriage patterns . |
| 23 | Hundreds of thousands have already starved to death . |
| 24 | Fronted by art student Becky Crawford they have already managed to lineup an extensive list of dates in the region , which is the surest sign that they are pretty good . |
| 25 | As well as NCR Corp , which appears to have favoured Solaris over Destiny , the desktop Unix environment now on offer from parent AT&T 's Unix System Laboratories Inc — effectively a rival product — ICL plc , Zenith Data Systems , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and Everex Systems Inc join those personal computer manufacturers who have already committed to Sun 's Unix offering , including Dell Computer Inc , Toshiba Corp , AST Research Inc , CompuAdd Corp and NetFrame Systems Inc . |
| 26 | I mean , I think , there is something there that needs pursuing , I 'm not accusing all judges of being , inherently , you know , nutty , or , whatever , but , the number of cases that have come to light in the last few years , whether it 's because the press have just decided to home in on them , |
| 27 | Alternatively , they might pause in order to connect the material they have just read to material they had read earlier in the text . |
| 28 | The Kensington Hilton was enormous , quite the biggest place I have ever encountered to date . |
| 29 | But the one that they have read , Cold Comfort Farm , they have probably read to destruction . |
| 30 | Garry Flitcroft , one of their emerging young players , is expected to recover from a sore back while Mike Sheron ( knee ) and Terry Phelan ( ankle ) have both responded to treatment . |