Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 2 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 3 | If it was n't the Russians , it was the British who wanted to interfere ; so I said , I am going away to wait for the day when once again an Austrian can decide when an Austrian may conduct music in his own country . |
| 4 | But I depressed his chest with my palms every three seconds In the old-fashioned way , willing the dog to breathe as the eyes still stared at nothing . |
| 5 | Still it may be unfashionable to go for the majority anyway . |
| 6 | I just did n't quite judge it right , so I decided to go for the hole rather than ipe the team out ! |
| 7 | Yes , it 's very hard because you get to that stage where you know you can only really push forward for so long , then when it you know , the whistle looms near , you try and you know , you 're just going to go for the result really , and keep it you know , a clean sheet and just get a point out of the game . |
| 8 | From the time it is first offered to you , it makes sense to plan for the day when your job may end . |
| 9 | Using a sharp knife , shave a little off the sides of the body to round off the edges slightly . |
| 10 | Nor will concession be made to a tendency to weep during the days immediately before her period . |
| 11 | ‘ Look , Micky , ’ said Peter Hickton , ‘ would it help if we were to go through the lines again this evening , just the two of us ? ’ |
| 12 | With Tracey apparently intent on limiting his own involvement , she longed to talk things over with someone who might offer more active help ; at the same time , she felt an almost superstitious reluctance to go through the story again in the kind of detail a confidante would need . |
| 13 | The choice that is left is to go through the motions either with counterfeit conviction , or with subversion and disdain . |
| 14 | It took many visits to reach our self-set target of non-respondents : thirty primary and thirty secondary teachers willing to discuss the Oxfordshire scheme and to go through the questionnaire orally with us . |
| 15 | It would not be appropriate to go through the arguments again today , but I suspect that teachers will judge the effectiveness of the pay review body not by our arguments on the Floor of the House or in Committee last year , but merely by the way in which it delivers . |
| 16 | No , well I 'm , I need that one , that 's not a white one , you need to go through the wheel there , see |
| 17 | You know how it is , Mr Lorton : strings are pulled , and we all have to go through the hoops rather faster than normal . ’ |
| 18 | Well how can it , because it , it , I think it 's got to go through the thing here , if you see what I mean , it , it , the chop you 'd have to push it through a little bit and then have a , |
| 19 | The Scots are too intelligent to fall for the propaganda then prevalent in London and other large English centres . |
| 20 | It is difficult to see through the vagueness now surrounding the Government 's plans , but it is clear that ministers were both unprepared and unco-ordinated in their response to what MPs across the political divide detected as the stench of injustice . |
| 21 | ‘ I want to go during the day so that we can all see the countryside . ’ |
| 22 | The Club obviously preferred to have a public supply but this did not seem easy to arrange for the Minutes frequently talk about ‘ bringing pressure to bear on the Water Companies ’ . |
| 23 | At the moment teams still seem interested in my services , but it , at the end of the season , the opportunity to try for the Championship no longer exists , then , no question , I shall step aside . ’ |
| 24 | Apart from the obvious one which is to jump off the mountain incorrectly and kill yourself , the possibility for public humiliation is delightfully endless . |
| 25 | If a car suddenly swerves round the corner while I am standing in the middle of the road , the right thing for me to do is to jump for the pavement as spontaneously as a cat . |
| 26 | The reviewer accused Allison of ‘ Scraping a little from the edges ’ but still guessed that : ‘ If it was played near a poster of George Michael , it would cause the corners to curl as the paper spontaneously combusted . ’ |
| 27 | You 're not required to know all that remember or indeed any of it because they have everything they need to know , particularly if they do the long tour , they have everything they need to know on the tour and everything they need to know about the furniture well pieces of furnitures . |
| 28 | Alexandra bought a book on cheese-making and ignored Dora 's protests that she had helped make cheese at her mother 's knee and knew all there was to know about the matter already . |
| 29 | It mattered not that after weeks of interviews with 35 Palestinian families in Lebanon , I chose to write about the experiences only of those who had no immediate connection with the Palestinian guerrilla movement . |
| 30 | ‘ To write about the events up there was hard , sometimes a real struggle , but it had to be . |