Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're all going to go off one day and there 's nothing better than planning for it . |
| 2 | Cassock and surplice , a black cassock and white surplice once I told you that my grandmother was once living with us , she used to delight in washing my surplice and ironing it up except me when I was singing in the choir , I did n't take a , the treble solos , that was after the choir used to sister of ours at least oh twenty men , and as many lads and youths the as I say Johnny was in the choir there was er the two brothers and there was Dick was a incense boy and his father was a manager to go in the , he used to have a red cassock and surplice , but he used to Dick 's dad was the incense swinger and they used to go about swinging incense and that , I do n't suppose they do that at all now , but er your first job as a choirboy was to pump the organ it , have you ever been in the church ? |
| 3 | If this is not possible ( and it usually is n't ) , the golden advice at the present time must be to sell first rather than risk lumbering yourself with the crippling expense of having to borrow for several months or possibly longer . |
| 4 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 5 | Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go . |
| 6 | They have been established in recognition of the fact that it is pointless to wait for public sympathy and a change of political will to improve the level of basic old age pensions , and the quality of life for older people generally . |
| 7 | But this is the crew and the picture that flew to Colesfield on the tenth of October of forty three and we had nothing out of the ordinary to report about that mission and that was the Gdynia Mission the day before , it certainly stands out on our minds because of the length of it and then of course the next one on the fourteenth of October to Schweinfurt which changed our lives . |
| 8 | With the recession the local labour council has refused to go for new jobs and at the height of this , they sacked the man whose job it was to bring jobs to Swindon . |
| 9 | Like Shujan he has had his training setbacks but Armstrong has shrewdly got enough runs into him to go for this handicap and his recent home form suggests it is worth taking a chance with him as he is on the upgrade . |
| 10 | It had been anticipated they would be operating mainly among the trees surrounding the estate , so the object was to go for maximum noise and shock effect while inflicting the least injuries possible . |
| 11 | ‘ I told him how I had to go for special lessons and how other kids would sometimes laugh or pick on me . |
| 12 | In fact , practically all I did was to go for solitary walks or pretend to read Virgil or Sophocles , whose two dead languages were now as meaningless to me as mental arithmetic , and as incapable of claiming my concentration . |
| 13 | Despite his resignation Mamaloni stated his intention to remain as Prime Minister and to form a government of " national unity , based on proportionate representation of the nation 's scattered provinces — including the capital , Honiara — in terms of population and resources " , and " guided by the principles of political reconciliation , national reconstruction and policy redirection " . |
| 14 | The miners used rock drills and compressed air to drive through hard rock and the level had a hydraulic engine , worked by water from the dam at Sun Hush , which had such a head of water that it developed up to fifty horsepower and worked both the water pumps to drain the deep levels and the winding gear . |
| 15 | At Level Three students will identify personal development goals they wish to acquire through residential experience and will take responsibility , along with other group members for the planning , organising and implementation of a residential experience . |
| 16 | The auditing profession er argues , and I must say the audit practice board 's er er proposals are very , for very passive auditing , the audit profession argues that it 's difficult to detect fraud but on the other hand er the local government er act er local government finance act of nineteen eighty two requires local authority auditors to have er er er a duty to search for unlawful acts and report on them . |
| 17 | The police began to search for various people but our security system was very good and we had been warned about what was happening . |
| 18 | The area was sealed off , sniffer dogs were called in to search for more explosives and the bags taken to the Metropolitan Police forensic science laboratory for examination . |
| 19 | In 1985 , however , the Government specifically rejected calls for another inquiry like Lord Scarman 's , arguing that since the riots were a ‘ criminal enterprise ’ it was useless to search for social explanations or to have yet another report advising it about what to do . |
| 20 | The boom saw the generalization and expansion of state welfare provisions , unprecedented attempts by governments to plan for economic growth and shape industrial structures , and some experiments in worker involvement in the direction of enterprises . |
| 21 | Above and inset : Before winter arrives it 's important to plan for extra colour and warmth in the garden |
| 22 | Do they want to plan for organic change or reap the fruit of a retail giant that might , no matter what the quality of the architecture , be redundant in another 25 years ? |
| 23 | The legend that Crabb was taken back to Russia alive continued to circulate for several years and indeed still does , helped by a number of books claiming to be based on secret information from the East . |
| 24 | Before they reached this happy state , however , they were to carry through several operations and long hours of dangerous training from their base at the Hayling Island Sailing Club on an isolated spit of land called Sandy Point on Hayling Island ( near Portsmouth , Hampshire ) . |
| 25 | Physicians are concerned at the fact that heart patients sometimes have to wait between three months and a year for surgery . |
| 26 | It is never a good idea to sit for long periods but , if this is essential , get up from time to time in order to move the body . |
| 27 | The trial was expected to continue for some time and it was widely believed that evidence would be given which would incriminate politicians still active . |
| 28 | So I was going to rummage through these slides and we do n't have them , erm so I 'll have to , I 'll hand the , the , the book around in just one minute , erm the poems that I 'm going to read to you , very few of them are actually complete , most of them are sketches erm ideas and images of erm , that I 've got , I 've , I 've got them from the paintings . |
| 29 | It 's at a very early stage at the moment , there , there is a code being drafted ; it 's got to go through various processes and probably wo n't be in general circulation till December/January . |
| 30 | This is understandable as , given the choice , no one wants to go through great suffering or pain . |