Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McLeish decided he was not going to get much more out of this and went on to check , gently , what Francis Morgan had done with the weekend . |
| 2 | Why Kane ignored this and chose instead to propose a one-dimensional view of black people sharing physical characteristics is perplexing , but his next step is utterly stupefying : he suggests that blacks have psychological characteristics which are also determined by race . |
| 3 | Pandarus , who had instructed Troilus — ‘ You must be witty ’ — seems to have infected the lovers with his fondness for dirty jokes ( in him , perhaps , a sign of impotence or disease ) , and seeing him again they are reminded of this and go up to verse for their protestations of love and fidelity ( 113ff . ) . |
| 4 | Jasper sensed some of this and vowed not to go along with it in the sheeplike fashion of the others . |
| 5 | They set out up the hillside , going slowly , picking their way from one bush and tussock to another and pausing continually to sniff and stare along the great expanse of grass , which stretched on either side as far as they could see . |
| 6 | He felt responsible for their separation and he knew that when he had had problems in the past , his parents had stopped arguing so much and pulled together to help him . |
| 7 | In April 1990 , as the downturn deepened , they sold LET to Swedish life insurance giant SSP for £550 million , pocketing £40 million each and staying on to run the company . |
| 8 | Stephen ignored that and went on to say , ‘ Okay , darling , I 'll let you go . |
| 9 | do n't need any more of that , you know not to drink and drive you wan na learn your roundabouts , junctions and that and get how to give way and |
| 10 | I I work from that and give out to form . |
| 11 | The flies had returned to cluster on two small lakes of dried blood , all that remained here to show where the girl had lain , apart from the lingering smell . |
| 12 | There is , of course , an enormous difference between the private/public demands of the two examples : writing my own private notes protects me rather more than having publicly to make suggestions on how the teacher as ‘ patient ’ should , say , knock on a door . |
| 13 | Even those that tend not to do very well attract some kind of an advance . |
| 14 | It is interesting how many of the social workers who regard themselves as identified with their clients , sharing some sense of oppression by the ‘ bureaucracy ’ that weighs upon them both and working therefore to help the clients receive resources from the ‘ system ’ , have a view of social security field staff that is directly in contrast to their view of their own position . |