Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have come here today to call to mind our brothers and sisters who have special needs/who are mentally handicapped . |
| 2 | Definitely , yes , I would say like I 've spoke to Brian Horton on Sunday and he more or less said that it 's er Oxford United , fourth position in the league , let's hope so like you know , they are like , and I 've come here maybe to help get them in a better position . |
| 3 | As he told the story , probably with some exaggeration , Evelyn is supposed quite often to have gone out , perhaps only as far as his aunt 's house nearby to borrow some sugar , and to have failed to return . |
| 4 | The preponderance of sole practitioner respondents to the consultation as a whole can be seen once again to have had a dramatic effect on the outcome of this particular question , with over three-quarters of the 55% who answered negatively being sole practitioners . |
| 5 | Any present-day fan will be familiar with the Botham story , for it has been told too often to need repeating . |
| 6 | I think it clear , and indeed the Home Office Circular of 1930 explicitly states ( page 4 ) , that it is in order to secure this aim , and in recognition of the fact that a person in custody is in a specially vulnerable position , and hence particularly at a disadvantage in responding to questions in a balanced and measured way , that it has been thought safer both to prohibit questioning after a certain point , and to exclude from evidence answers given to such questioning . |
| 7 | She is ranked sufficiently highly to have gone straight into the main draw , but made it clear that the Games were inconvenient for her schedule this years , as she had a lot of points to defend in tournaments . |
| 8 | Jeremy Bates was not ranked high enough to have gone straight into the main singles draw and would have had to take part in the qualifying competition . |
| 9 | There are now few poultry farms within listening distance but , according to a nineteenth century folklorist , ‘ In ancient days the cocks must have crowed most lustily to have produced vibrations on either the sensitive rock or the tympanum of man ’ . |
| 10 | He would have warmed to Eileen had he lived long enough to get to know her . |
| 11 | At Holkham we looked hopefully up into the pine trees planted long ago to help stabilise the sand dunes , and we ‘ pished ’ . |