Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I go back to Chelmsford most weekends and manage to see my daughter quite regularly , though our relationship is still nothing like as close as it was before my arrest . |
| 2 | Daddy having recently popped it , my wife was comfortably off in her own right , and she did a deal by which , in exchange for her making no financial demands on me , I would make no attempt to see my daughters ever again : the corrupting influence was to be kept away . |
| 3 | My arm was beginning to hurt pretty badly , so I decided to pull my chute straight away in case I fainted from loss of blood . |
| 4 | The aim of everyone , irrespective of weight , should be to modify their eating very slightly to maximize health benefits . |
| 5 | Unless the sound setting at the press show was a mistake , I have seldom heard a noisier film nor one which seems to require its stars ( Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd again ) to bellow their lines so startlingly over the din . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's going to try her luck out there . ’ |
| 7 | If you are acquiring a cross-breed , try to establish its parentage as far as possible . |
| 8 | They were asked to write their statements down as quickly as possible and to answer as though describing themselves to themselves rather than to anybody else . |
| 9 | The reports made by members of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate have , over the past eighteen months , regularly drawn attention to the failure of teachers to pitch their expectations high enough . |
| 10 | About half of the people detained under Immigration Act powers in general do not wish to challenge the decision that they should leave but they need help winding up their affairs here , contacting their friends and families and pressing the Home Office to process their cases quickly so that they do not have to spend unnecessarily long periods in prison . |
| 11 | On the day of which we are speaking , the mother came home from work and was surprised to find her daughter not yet in from school . |
| 12 | From that cold , emotionless void she watched herself speak kindly to the young girl introduced as Ellen , thank the Queen for her great kindness , beg to be excused from dining in the hall on the grounds of wishing to find her priest as soon as possible , and resolutely put all thought of fitzAlan out of her mind . |
| 13 | Obviously the factory system with its complicated industrial mechanism can not function profitably without a large and growing demand ready and willing to absorb its products as fast as they are produced . |
| 14 | ‘ What have they done to you ? ’ she asked , now unable to hide her concern any longer , the tears starting to flow . |
| 15 | On December 6 , 1918 , troops of the 9th Battalion B.W.I.R. , unable to contain their frustrations any longer , discarded the racist fetters imposed upon them by the War Office and violently attacked their superior officers , severely assaulting the unit commander in the process . |
| 16 | We hope to be able to increase its reach even further in the coming year . |
| 17 | His father died shortly afterwards , and Margery was given permission by her confessor to escort her daughter-in-law as far as Ipswich , where the latter was to take ship for home . |
| 18 | Now they have started again , as investors convince themselves that the worst of the recession is over ; as some junk-bond issuers take advantage of falling interest rates and the stockmarket rally to refinance their debt more cheaply or turn it into equity ; and as bond-raiders speculate in distressed companies that they think may restructure themselves or be taken over . |
| 19 | Central government seeks to impose its will not merely through legislation but also through the communication of large amounts of guidance . |
| 20 | for the first time the egalitarian mentality has been able to impose its will not only on the State schools , but on the private schools . ’ |
| 21 | His painting gives us much pleasure — he did splendidly to find his way so well with his painting — and I am sure that he must have responded to being appreciated for his work as well as for his teaching . |
| 22 | His voice sounded oddly strangled , and she opened her eyes to find his face unexpectedly close to hers . |
| 23 | She shivered , remembering how waking to find his face so close to hers had made her insides quake . |
| 24 | Then , one day in 1989 , unable to contain his curiosity any longer , he dropped into the factory to ask the managing director to show him round . |
| 25 | He certainly seems to know his way around now does n't he ? |
| 26 | The guy across the road keeps me up to date with what is going on , and I have got to know his family quite well . |
| 27 | All she had to do was keep reminding herself that she would n't have to bear his company much longer . |
| 28 | This should be your aim , to know your presentation so well that the mechanics of offering it are taken for granted . |
| 29 | Not only do you get to know your friends much more intimately when you 're out on the hill , the true test of character is how they behave when they come home . |
| 30 | I suppose it helps both , does n't it , really , because if you 're trying to catch the teacher out , that means you 've got to know your lesson pretty well , because otherwise if you try to catch the teacher out and yet you 've been proved wrong , you 've had it really . |