Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crossing the line at Seoul ‘ 88 : Christie needs to go one better at Barcelona |
| 2 | ‘ Monsieur le Commissaire wants to see you upstairs in his office ’ , he announced importantly . |
| 3 | The person from whom you have to get these things needs to interview you simultaneously in order to get the facts on which to base a judgement of what you need and/or whether you should have it . |
| 4 | These first lines of ht book , do n't hesitate to bring the reader right to the core of the situation of Pip 's life , Charles Dickens puts the information he needs to give us right in front of our noses , there are no complications added . |
| 5 | The Poet evidently wants to detach himself totally from the Friend , stand away from him as if he might suffer corruption or contagion by going any nearer . |
| 6 | Either the man she is with is not ready for a long-term commitment , he may be violent and she wants to keep him away from the child . |
| 7 | Still , ideas that the reflective pronoun herself and the item anyone which is called a negative polarity item , the item anyone needs to have something else in the sentence in order to license them they ca n't just occur freely in the normal position for er nouns , even though they are nouns . |
| 8 | He ca n't drink for six whole months , that 's why he has to get himself away from town and temptation and live out in the country . |
| 9 | The City also wants to take it easier after yesterday 's barrage of trading statements from blue chip companies . |
| 10 | ‘ Jane Grigson says to sweat them lightly in butter . ’ |
| 11 | There was a boy she fancied herself — Jeff Freeman — and she was busy laying plans to entice him away from his steady girlfriend . |
| 12 | He plans to release it all over the Far East as well as Britain , and said : ‘ It will sell like hot cakes . ’ |
| 13 | What makes this album such a monstrous listen , though , is the way disgusting guitar noises of all descriptions are packed into jabs , upper-cuts , sucker punches and knock-out blows to batter you dizzily around the room . |
| 14 | He advised teachers ‘ to get to it ( the atomic theory ) as quickly as possible ’ , describing it as ‘ one of those short cuts with the human mind often takes to raise itself quickly to a height from which the relations between phenomena can be discerned at a glance ’ . |
| 15 | Some say he took it from an Indian funeral chant , others from a poem by a U.S. poet Mary Fry , though no one seems to know anything else about the lady . |
| 16 | ‘ Seems to put it squarely on the meal to me , Rose . |
| 17 | Nowadays , everyone seems to call everyone else by their first name , even though they 've never met them before . |
| 18 | My third recording , also from Decca , seems to get everything right from the engineering point of view . |
| 19 | As far as it is possible to ascertain , this particular meaning appears to manifest itself only as a purely human phenomenon |
| 20 | He said : ‘ Every day seems to bring us closer to the collapse of the monarchy . ’ |
| 21 | M.A. Tereshchenko , the non-party liberal who succeeded Miliukov as Foreign Minister , proposed to the Allies that they revise their war aims to bring them closer to the peace proposals enunciated by the Soviet . |
| 22 | ‘ But she has loved someone else and her thoughts are always in the past ; and her consciousness seems to bother her even at the thought of a possible new love . ’ |
| 23 | Glasgow , already the host for many of the UK 's most innovative arts events , hopes to go one better in 1990 , combining commercial and publicly-funded activity in a year-long cultural feast . |
| 24 | Alternating between wide-eyed bewilderment and shaking grief , she endeavours to put her past behind her , and set up home for her new love . |
| 25 | She contrasts well with the solemn Eleanor , her husband 's cousin and in love with him , who tries to satisfy herself emotionally by writing to a prisoner of war and by frequenting a group of left-wing people . |
| 26 | It is simply what presents itself to Moose as the truth when he reflects as carefully as he can , and what he therefore expects to present itself likewise to others . |
| 27 | Their fight , however , also serves to bring them closer to each other , each filling a void in their lives which they had not previously acknowledged as such . |
| 28 | ( b ) Roads Prima facie a lease of land adjoining a road operates to pass one half in width of the road , even where the road is a private one ( Lang v House ( 1961 ) 178 EG 801 ) . |
| 29 | Your prayers are being answered and the language is better , but the best news is that God continues to use us even in our limited capacity . |
| 30 | Sensuous of sound , immaculately directed , the playing somehow never quite manages to transport one fully to the idyllic world of nymphs and shepherds . |