Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not want to attract attention by being the first or last to appear for dinner , so he left things until five minutes to eight , by which time he had heard several other guests moving about . |
| 2 | Dwyer is monitoring the continuing rumpus over whether players should be involved with their provinces in 15-a-side competitions or opt to play for Australia in the sevens tournaments . |
| 3 | The Commission normally takes two months to investigate charges , after which it could either instruct Britain to set its VAT rates in conformity with European legislation or proceed to put into effect the long awaited 7th Directive on fiscal matters . |
| 4 | It did not court or attempt to mate with females on heat , even though it appeared to be anatomically well equipped to do so . |
| 5 | It will therefore be rare that a precedent will exactly satisfy those needs ; it may contain terms not needed by the client , or fail to deal with problems special to the client 's business . |
| 6 | However , Barbarossa was still suspicious of the leader of the Guelphs , and when he resolved to go on crusade he ordered that Henry must either follow him to the Holy Land or return to exile in England for a further three years . |
| 7 | We will develop distance learning opportunities and extend the franchising of higher education courses so that courses can start at local colleges — helping people who wish or need to study from home . |
| 8 | The other main obstacle in the way of enjoyment is Aviemore , but unless you need to buy some chips , or have to come by train then you can just close your eyes as you pass by it . |
| 9 | Store detectives work about seven hours a day , including breaks , and tend to earn from £8,000-£10,000 per year To avoid getting too well known , they have a patch of around 10 shops which they patrol on a rota basis . |
| 10 | They have less opportunity to make new friendships and tend to depend for companionship on the continuity of longstanding relationships . |
| 11 | Teachers who use Breakthrough find that their pupils become conscious of the construction of words , and tend to play with words in a way which is helpful for their spelling . |
| 12 | In this respect , pregnant girls at Arbour are also very knowledgeable and confident about giving birth because they have been so well prepared for it , and tend to sail through labour and birth without a lot of problems . |
| 13 | These fibrotic processes are rare and tend to occur in isolation , although a number of overlap syndromes has been reported with multiple organ involvement . |
| 14 | Her assignment for C 's Circus was to manipulate men of power and influence to work towards unity with the British Commonwealth in their desperate fight for world freedom . |
| 15 | Insert needle on same row between centre loops , from front to back , take needle behind work and bring to front between loops at right , four rows higher . |
| 16 | Evenings are their weakest time since they soon begin to feel fatigued and want to go to sleep relatively early . |
| 17 | When you get rich you find that the rich are soft and stupid and want to talk about parties for their daughters . |
| 18 | Tell Edgar I still love him and Catherine , and want to return to Thrushcross Grange , but I ca n't ! |
| 19 | Now East Germans are shipping their own people in sealed trains through their own country to the West , and police fight back thousands who block the tracks and want to jump on board . |
| 20 | It is easy to fall into the trap of looking for causal relations between what we ( the education community ) do and what pupils achieve , and forget to take into account our pupils ' own efforts , perceptions and experiences . |
| 21 | such as this year 's figures you know they 're not paying you to somebody over the phone and expect to remember of course they ca n't so I 've got the detail that I need to keep looking at , and there about that 's about it . |
| 22 | Trying to locate a particular noise in a built-up area , for instance , can be tricky , since sounds are reflected off buildings and appear to come from places other than where they are . |
| 23 | Also , we observed that males close to the breeding site seem deliberately to sit out on roads , where they have a clear view , and wait to jump on females as they pass . |
| 24 | He is the real man as none other ; for he alone is man as God intends man to be ; he alone has travelled to the uttermost limits of the ‘ far country ’ of man 's estrangement ; and in him alone has the judgement been passed , carried out , and overcome to issue in reconciliation . |
| 25 | He and wife Margaret have just enjoyed a holiday in America and hope to return in October . |
| 26 | They treat Scotland as no more than a mere appendage of England , and seek to impose on Scotland an educational agenda that is irrelevant to the real needs of Scottish education . |
| 27 | Those of the dragonfly are placed on either side of the head and seem to act as horizon detectors . |
| 28 | It may also be helpful to those who dine at Italian restaurants and seem to suffer from Luigi 's syndrome . |
| 29 | They stay up late , are slow to get going in the morning , and seem to gain in strength as the day wears on . |
| 30 | The report , by Professor Michael Zander , of the London School of Economics , criticised United States legislation on the confiscation and forfeiture of assets as being too wide-ranging and open to abuse by prosecutors . |