Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After various consultations with interested parties , it was decided to carry on in the traditional manner . |
| 6 | Even then it should not apply where all that the Purchaser does is to carry on in the ordinary course of the business . |
| 7 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 8 | However , unless I want junk food from one of the many establishments purveying it in this thoroughly commercialised station , all I have available to sit on in the huge concourse is a grubby metal flip-up slat a few inches wide . |
| 9 | Starting with a bank loan of £4,000 , Roddick had no time to sit down in the early years and draw up a grandiose mission of what her organisation should set out to achieve . |
| 10 | She was glad to get home , to wash the grit from the paths off her feet , to sit down in the cool unglaring indoors . |
| 11 | He slung his cloak of feathers over the staff and Scathach helped him to sit down in the slight shelter that this garment offered . |
| 12 | ‘ She 'll have to go down in the fattening fields with the cows . ’ |
| 13 | She wanted to curl up in a small ball somewhere quiet , dark and safe , and stay there until she felt capable of facing the world again . |
| 14 | The concrete was cold to his bottom , and he stared at the stairs down which Bunty had fallen , his throat and his face and his eyes seeming to swell up in a great hot surge of grief . |
| 15 | She did n't want her voice to come out in a dry croak . |
| 16 | ‘ The region has got to come out in the open and to do more than what they have been doing before to make a real commitment to get rid of racism , particularly institutional racism which has been built up over many , many years . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The region has got to come out in the open and to do more than what they have been doing before to make a real commitment to get rid of racism , particularly institutional racism which has been built up over many , many years . ’ |
| 18 | Even now , however , he is prepared to accept that he may not be able to come back in a new guise after three years . |
| 19 | ‘ We wanted to play Dublin but all the venues were booked out months ago , so we 'll have to come back in the New Year and do somewhere like the SFX or the Stadium . |
| 20 | so you know the , these one thing you 'll have to work out in a logical side of revelation |
| 21 | The aim is to leap around in an inflated suit and push your opponent off the mat . |
| 22 | The tall , straight young back that sauntered away down-river , to come about in a wide circuit via the fence of the curator 's garden , and the box hedge that continued its line , maintained too secure an assurance , and too secret a satisfaction of its own , in spite of the dexterity with which it had removed itself from censure . |
| 23 | Washington , he said , stood by its commitment to overcome the division of Europe , Germany and Berlin , but this had to come about in a gradual process which satisfied German aspirations and met the ‘ legitimate interests ’ of all concerned . |
| 24 | The crowd of 7,000 — Aberdeen 's lowest of the season — had little to enthuse over in a drab second half in which Aberdeen had several excellent chances but displayed their old failing of not converting demonstrable outfield superiority into goals . |
| 25 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 26 | Ipswich are out to sharpen up in a big way tomorrow and get back to winning ways after a draw and two defeats in the league following the FA Cup fifth round home 4–0 win over Grimsby . |
| 27 | For this reason , Handy was forced to sell out in the late 1960s . |
| 28 | The farm uses a variety of chemical packs , including powders like Goltix in packs , occasional metal cans for Metasystox , bags of manganese , water-soluble packs and oily sprays like Optica which can be difficult to hose out in a conventional way . |
| 29 | The Sheffield Wednesday defender last night confirmed that he 's ready to bounce back in the live TV match with Spurs exactly 12 days after a horror collision . |
| 30 | His footsteps were hard to pick out in the roaring darkness . |