Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend will be interested to know that Nottinghamshire holds back nearly £43 million and that its total administrative costs are 4.4 per cent . |
| 2 | Yesterday her mum Jane said : ‘ I wish I had her back but it has taken away some of the emptiness to know that Paula lives on and she was able to help young and old . |
| 3 | Within months of the invasion of Panama , Guillermo Endara , the US-installed president , resorted to a public hunger strike to demand that Washington follow through on its promises . |
| 4 | With few notable exceptions , legal department tend to be small to medium in size and it is not uncommon to find that solicitors work along . |
| 5 | I was intrigued to find that Shanti picked out all the cucumber from my meal , preferred my chicken to her rather mushy dish , pointed at the pickle and selected an onion from her father 's plate . |
| 6 | ‘ We used to find that people picking up a 2D spreadsheet from another audit would spend ages trying to print it out and find out what was in there before they could start work . ’ |
| 7 | So I thought if I er But I was beginning to get a bit worried so I thought well I might as well go up because I shall start to worry and things get out of proportion with me you see ? |
| 8 | The stench of sulphur seemed to increase and Jack rolled over , still yelling . |
| 9 | The final axe is expected to come after Birt takes over as the new director general in March . |
| 10 | When the train had emerged from the last tunnel on the Central Line between Stratford and Leyton , issuing with little more space to spare than toothpaste squeezed out of the nozzle of another kind of tube , somewhere past that point , though he was not sure yet where , he would climb out on to the roof of the car . |
| 11 | These off-road vans are equipped as ‘ garages on wheels ’ to reach and repair broken down vehicles , enabling anti-poaching patrols to stay mobile . |
| 12 | David was the first of her children to wed and Laura got on well with her first in-law , welcoming her into the family as well as the company . |
| 13 | Stephen was about to answer when Robert went on : ‘ I 've had a very agitated Michael Davis on the phone . |
| 14 | Wang asked , his face returning to view as Fischer came out of his bow . |
| 15 | Then , as in any strike , solidarity tends to erode as time goes by . |
| 16 | We 'll have to wait until Jackie comes back . ’ |
| 17 | Judaism ( as Jewish scholars have pointed out ) was much more diverse than Christians , keen to suggest that Jesus stood out from his surroundings , have sometimes allowed . |
| 18 | But as Greenblatt points out , there is evidence to suggest that Stanley made up the part about burning Shakespeare to heighten the effect of his story . |
| 19 | And people who liked to walk and talk walked round and round the perimeter track in endless identical circles . |
| 20 | ‘ Anglers broke the ice to fish and diesel bubbled up to the surface . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't think they had enough hard evidence to conclude that Inez ran off with or to another man . |
| 22 | The MPs said the absence of any disciplinary action against any of the individuals involved could undermine the Bank 's future effectiveness because it might lead staff to conclude that failure to carry out their responsibilities effectively carried no adverse consequences for them . |
| 23 | It might lead staff to conclude that failure to carry out their responsibilities effectively ‘ carries no adverse consequences for them as individuals ’ . |
| 24 | When giving instruction in thermal soaring , I try to insist that students go on attempting to find lift until about 5–600 feet , and I very often explain my own thoughts and precautions as they do the flying . |
| 25 | ‘ Staff are encouraged to submit requests to attend courses , senior staff are encouraged to nominate and management sends out prospectuses as appropriate ’ … |
| 26 | There are five main precautions you can take to make your home safe and protect your family from danger : eliminate fire hazards ; fit smoke detectors ; keep basic firefighting equipment in danger areas ; learn what to do if fire breaks out , and make sure that every member of the family knows how to get out of the house . |
| 27 | I was singing little Hareton to sleep when Catherine came in . |
| 28 | It was that sort of genial incompetent who plagued the management of Ceauşescu 's industry , but what else were ill-trained bureaucrats to do when orders rained down on them which could not be obeyed even with the best will in the world . |
| 29 | When Escalus cross-examines him , this is done in prose , as befits his true status ( 260ff. ) , and when Angelo invites Lucio to state what he can witness against the Friar-Duke , the medium drops to prose for all four speakers ( 327–33 ) , to be catapulted back to verse as Lucio pulls off the hood and reveals the Duke 's identity . |
| 30 | He was about to leave when Simon called out : ‘ Father ! ’ |