Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He appeared jumpy and ill at ease , ready to blurt something out at any moment . |
| 2 | I 'm actually , I 'm quite high on as theorist as well and I like to write everything out in full and I clear structures and if I go to training sessions and they 're all over the place , it 's such a in about five minutes and I have to say hang on a minute it might not be structured in the way that you like it but you can actually learn from it . |
| 3 | Comrades struggled to get to grips with Bangor 's cavalier attacking play but they had a chance to pull one back on 31 minutes , Paul McGurnaghan threading the ball through the defence only for Davy Armstrong to screw his shot past the post . |
| 4 | Really , I do n't think anybody in the crowd of just over eleven thousand thought United were going to pull anything out of that game . |
| 5 | They will need to have the skills to talk someone out of another pair of loopstitch socks or convince a lost soul that a key-ring with a thermometer measuring wind-chill factor is not going to change their lives . |
| 6 | Lancashire they used to call it and , we used to , they used to set one on at first and then , as he knocked , if he could knock one off his feet onto his two feet , then he had to help him to knock the others over as they come in close and er , I know they do n't sound nothing like , you know , now but er , in them days we use to think it was great . |
| 7 | But in my early days it was quite common for some of the old horsemen to walk anything up to two or three miles , and sometimes more , to bring harness down to the shop . |
| 8 | To go one down with nine minutes remaining and with only 10 men , we were up against it . ’ |
| 9 | Erm , it 's like to keep my day planned out but , like the district manager might walk in or people might go off sick , and then you have to fill somebody in to that position . |
| 10 | His stomach rebelled at the mere thought of food , but he knew he must not miss this golden opportunity to put something by for another day . |
| 11 | We 're gon na need to put something in between that . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've always been very aware that I needed to give something back after this experience and when I read about the appeal for people prepared to give homes to the Bosnians , I decided it was time I stepped in . ’ |
| 13 | Others want first editions from greed for rarity and will pay almost any price to secure it , and yet others because they want to put one over on other collectors . |
| 14 | And er that 's how we used to fix everything in like that you see . |
| 15 | ‘ I had been advised to mark everything up by 20 per cent , ’ Alistair Sampson said , ‘ because the clients ’ decorators would come round afterwards asking for a cut . |
| 16 | He had informed his silent audience of the death — just ‘ death ’ — of Dr Kemp ; explained that in order to establish the , er , totality of events , it would be necessary for everyone to complete a little questionnaire ( duly distributed ) , sign and date it , and hand it in to Sergeant Lewis ; that the departure of the coach would have to be postponed until late afternoon , perhaps , with lunch by courtesy of The Randolph ; that Mr Cedric Downes had volunteered to fix something up for that morning , from about 10.45 to 12.15 ; that ( in Morse 's opinion ) activity was a splendid antidote to adversity , and that it was his hope that all the group would avail themselves of Mr Downes 's kind offer ; that if they could all think back to the previous day 's events and try to recall anything , however seemingly insignificant , that might have appeared unusual , surprising , out-of-character — well , that was often just the sort of thing that got criminal cases solved . |
| 17 | Given that our five-frame match is likely to last anything up to six hours at our normal rate of play , I have decided to spring a new psychological tactic on Martin : I shall eat bananas throughout the match , as top tennis players do . |
| 18 | Well it seems like that 's hoping for pie in the sky , though , because there 's first of all not enough money , and I do n't think that teachers are that good at well talking about their own emotions , and I asked the Oxfordshire County Council Education Department to send someone along to this programme , and they said ‘ I 'm sorry , there 's no-one to send ’ . |
| 19 | And to send something out like that by special despatch . |
| 20 | You do n't want to start anything off like that |
| 21 | Only seven of the fifteen large bookstores in Moscow took the trouble to send anything out to provincial peasant reading-centres . |
| 22 | ‘ In a speech described as brusque and arrogant by West German sources , ’ reported Anna Tomforde in the Guardian , ‘ British representative Dr Martin Holdgate , the chief scientist at the Department of the Environment ’ said , ‘ We see no point in making heroic efforts at great cost , to control one out of many factors unless there is a reasonable expectation that such control will lead to real improvement in the environment . ’ |
| 23 | I wonder whether it might be useful to get somebody in from social services side anyway to help to identify some other problems that I 'm having |
| 24 | But he felt that McAllister had to pay something back for all the fairy-tales which she had told Matey and himself , and which Matey had so gullibly swallowed . |
| 25 | If you do n't have a concrete area in front of your stables , move heaven and earth to get one down before next winter ! |
| 26 | And we 're hoping to get something out of that sale |
| 27 | But Bingham wants to end his managerial career on a high note and is determined to get something out of each of the last three games . |
| 28 | This would be a promise to deliver anything up to ten songs in a year . |
| 29 | He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done . |
| 30 | She was going to show somebody round for that . |