Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stuck at work all day with no-one to come home to at night — all very well for you sitting holding hands with Ted with little Frieda watching , you do n't know what it 's like , being on your own , not really — ’ |
| 2 | Erm but er when the war finished , when the war finished and the Home Guard stood down , I ca n't remember who was the mayor of Walsall at the time , but they had a reception in the town hall for the Home Guard and everyone that was in the Home Guard was invited before we hand before we st handed our uniforms in , was invited to attend and I must say with great pride that I was can still remember it now , that the wife and I went to the reception and I was in the uniform and it 'd be the mace bearer I presume that was at the door and he asked your name and er rank and he shouted out your name and rank when you went in and you was greeted by the mayor and mayoress inside the ves the hall of the town hall , and erm I mean er quite proud to be Corporal and Mrs you know and it I mean everyone that went , I mean their rank and name and who was with them , you know , was it was quite quite a er er quite a something of to look back to of interest that was , you know , when we stood down . |
| 3 | which is another thing you have to look out for in training if you 're asking . |
| 4 | They must , all of them , have something to look forward to at school . |
| 5 | There was absolutely nothing to look forward to except sleep and food , and these commodities had now become very important . |
| 6 | You pack your bags , shut the door , switch off the lights and you go home and you 've got the , the r another thirty odd years perhaps to look forward to in retirement . |
| 7 | But erm there 's always things to look forward to in football and yes Oldham 's going to be a good game for us , but we need to win ; then Swindon , our old rivals that we ca n't beat for years . |
| 8 | Here we go and that is that , up to now , erm we 've only made six beams , we 've got to reach , for these tanks , we want to make sixty and the problem is we 're on stop now redesign the whole thing and going on the present rate of production we 're going to go up to about week twenty-eight . |
| 9 | We want our houses to go up in in value and this sort of is not important to us ! |
| 10 | The traffic implications of what is proposed are enormous , and I hope that British Rail and the Government will take cognisance of the fact that we do not want to create around King 's Cross a traffic jam far worse than anything that we have to put up with at present . |
| 11 | I always find ‘ balance ’ a curiously bloodless word , extraordinarily difficult to hold on to in practice in the heat of the classroom . |
| 12 | Mind you the shit I used to get away with at school , you know , just winding the teachers up and like generally taking the piss , I 'd always pay attention and I 'd always , always get good marks but somehow I think they seem to take pissing about slightly more seriously here . |
| 13 | There are other problems teachers have to face up to in practice ; getting to learn how to use the programs and how to fit them into their schemes , for instance : both require much thought and time . |
| 14 | It would n't have been so bad , of course , if it had only been him , but there was that second-year nurse whom she had accused of loitering with him in the corridor — that was going to take some fancy footwork to get out of without loss of face . |
| 15 | These remained the concerns of Belorussian peasants in the 1920s , but unlike French peasants there were no small-scale politics for them to latch on to in order to climb slowly out of their deep provincialism . |
| 16 | He might try to take over on of Russian speaking peoples in other Republics , that could lead to the sort of situation we 're seeing in in Yugoslavia now . |