Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's important to go somewhere with a good kindergarten where they can just be looked after or taught to ski . |
| 2 | The tube I was in on Wednesday had to go slowly through a deserted and evacuated Victoria Station and one 's heart beats a little fast wondering if something will go off . |
| 3 | Asking the candidate to wait on for a few minutes . |
| 4 | I wanted to carry on as an airborne soldier , a paratrooper , enjoying the prestige which came from being part of an elite , and also the better pay and training opportunities that were the lot of such units . |
| 5 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 6 | Set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years , it has done so well it is to carry on in a slimmed down form under a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 7 | It has been so successful it is to carry on in a slimmed down form , with a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 8 | There were insufficient funds for a third appointment so that Allan Hayhurst had to carry on in an honourary capacity combining once again the offices of Secretary and Treasurer . |
| 9 | Instead of towing amplified sweet nothings ahead of the school , they might do better to sit astern with a few well-chosen selections from The Osmonds ' Greatest Hits , or Singalongamax . |
| 10 | Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win . |
| 11 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
| 12 | As might be expected from data reported earlier , positive attitudes as measured by all five factors were significantly associated with willingness to go on to a second round of review and reporting . |
| 13 | So you actually had to go on to a smaller boat ? |
| 14 | My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek .. |
| 15 | Kohl has decided to go on with a fast-breeder reactor in Kalkar on the Rhine , although development costs have quadrupled to 6–5 billion DM . |
| 16 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 17 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 18 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 19 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 20 | ‘ I think the Border clubs would have to sit down as a composite group and work out a new sevens structure . ’ |
| 21 | When he was able to sit down for a brief breather , he received a telephone call from control saying that some twenty young bullocks had got loose on the railway line heading in his direction and would he keep a look out , with the thought that trains and cattle do not mix . |
| 22 | Is there a certain time when you always love to sit down with a relaxing drink and something to eat ? |
| 23 | A hundred thousand soldiers seems to have been the maximum any Hellenistic state was able to gather together for a decisive battle . |
| 24 | You use semicolons and colons to indicate specific relationships between sentences that you wish to connect together into a larger , composite sentence . |
| 25 | Either each bell sounds different , and each could be heard in every apartment , or each sounds the same but is wired up to sound only in a single specific apartment when pressed . |
| 26 | No human beings , except the courageous and experienced blind , are able to sense much in a strange place where they can not see , but with rabbits it is otherwise . |
| 27 | ‘ But we did n't want to go in with a heavy commitment at first ; we took a PC and wrote our own very simple software to deal with incoming orders . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The players have to be prepared to put themselves into dangerous positions , to go in for a hard tackle , be brave and take the blows . |
| 29 | It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation . |
| 30 | However , with regard to the follow-up of arrests , one of the research team was able to sit in on a Juvenile Case Referral Panel , which recommended whether juveniles should be cautioned , and another member made observations in the magistrates ' courts . |