Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need to sheet out considerably to slow down and then sheet in again to do the turn . |
| 2 | … We bend over backwards to do the thing [ properly ] … but what happens in practice — do we mean it ? |
| 3 | She nodded , and they set off again to find a Venice few tourists saw . |
| 4 | They set off early to beat the traffic , and instead of blossom there were dead leaves on the pavement and a thin white mould of frost . |
| 5 | Some sociologists , strongly influenced by American sources , became converted to ethnomethodology , which set out completely to recast the objectives of sociological enquiry ( see pp. 94–7 ) . |
| 6 | So it was that I set out laboriously to catalogue the very schema of my own sanity , to list exhaustively the full range of my personal habits . |
| 7 | ‘ … the designers set out deliberately to create a pedestrian dominated area … short culs-de-sac ( gave ) access to several small courtyards- , around which a half dozen or so houses were grouped quite informally . |
| 8 | Click on Close to complete the operation . |
| 9 | Those few that escape being eaten form pairs and go off together to find a nest site in a crevice in the ground or a crack in a tree . |
| 10 | they sweep up tidily to pass the time |
| 11 | Well erm you know we 've had a lot of people come to us and say we 've qualified sales by telephone , I do n't present that a problem with that , but we have discovered people have not listened to what we 've been saying , even on the training course , when they go out there to sell the space they keep making appointments to go and see people to talk about advertising . |
| 12 | ‘ As you can see from the state of this place , I have someone call in regularly to keep an eye on it . |
| 13 | The radio plays continually , and some folk come in just to check the hourly news . |
| 14 | So when we come up here to make a presentation let's put aside at the moment the content of what we actually say what do we what do we need to think about ? |
| 15 | Worried , the time-travellers venture out only to discover the ship has landed in a narrow , rocky gully strewn with rocks and boulders . |
| 16 | We get a lot of people who have not cycled for years , they cycle tentatively for an hour , but then come back again to cycle the whole trail . |
| 17 | Perhaps she should steal Contralto and gallop off alone to find the edge of Haling Heart . |
| 18 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |