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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 He actually suggested he and I go down there together to look it over .
4 No doubt it is because West German voters know their votes will count that they turn out so willingly to use them .
5 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 .
6 ‘ Yes , I know , ’ conceded Lydia , ‘ but then I dash off somewhere else to see something different . ’
7 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 .
8 At the same time as coping with their own emotional burdens , they may need to give practical , financial and emotional support to someone with mental disorder and puzzle out how best to manage the bizarre manifestations of that disorder .
9 ‘ Is it all right if we come back here again to sleep ?
10 Music might be shit , but life itself is fully equipped to deliver magic if you stick around long enough to wait for it .
11 So , long before you rush into the basic decoration and furnishings you must first of all make a proper plan of the room and its needs and then work out how best to spend what money you have .
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