Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The compensation could not be increased if the council had lost it 's appeal and it would therefore remain as a maximum of £1 million . |
| 2 | The General Herborising was also conducted by the Demonstrator who led his more expert colleagues further afield , sometimes to the coast where they would remain for a couple of days or more . |
| 3 | In the past there has been an assumption that pupils ' attainment will dip as a result of transfer and a settling period will be needed . |
| 4 | That happened to Harry Porter in about 1927 when Lance Henly called after him ‘ Young Mr. Porter , do n't you think as a member of the Bank of England you should not be playing as an Artisan ? ’ |
| 5 | Let us think for a moment about some of those who have been left behind . |
| 6 | Well then while I was serving as a detective , you can just imagine I made plenty of arrests , and I got along reasonably well with most people , but there was one man I hated yes I hated him , I , I 'd only been a detective I should think for a period of about , oh five or six months , and a man , he called on the Reverend who was the , the vicar of St. Mary where |
| 7 | ‘ You can take me to a hotel , somewhere I can stay for a couple of nights until the police can find the very sick person who sent that letter to me . ’ |
| 8 | She had hoped he would stay for a chat with her parents , but he was making it very obvious that that was n't part of his plan . |
| 9 | ‘ You will stay for a bowl of soup , Sir John ? |
| 10 | You know , I ca n't stay for a week in silence . |
| 11 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 12 | SFA has some very important rules as to who a firm should treat as a customer in these circumstances . |
| 13 | The three piece leather does make for a lot of stitching at the sides and this suffered quite badly after a few days on rough moraine . |
| 14 | The hay fever season in Britain will lengthen as a result of global warming , according to a study by Dr Timothy Rich , a plants and vegetation consultant . |
| 15 | ‘ I will stay as a governess with the Robinson family , ’ Anne said sadly . |
| 16 | By the light of the second lamp , he saw it disappear through a hole in one of the great pictures on the wall . |
| 17 | His head makes little involuntary movements , the first beginnings of the small pleasurable movements which his whole body will make as a kind of modest disclaimer in the face of Harry 's approval . |
| 18 | And he was certainly not the kind of man she would want as a father for her daughter ! |
| 19 | He had chosen this woman specifically because she was the sort she was — a simple type , immediately responsive to the baby , no outside involvements , so she was free to give her entire time to him , willing to do without time off while the baby was still on the breast , and not expecting the massive salary most women would want for a job like this . |
| 20 | ‘ I need that cash for a deposit on my new place , but it looks like it 's gone for good now . ’ |
| 21 | Alter all , the swarm can only cover about a metre of ground every three minutes . |
| 22 | Also , unlike a book , you can not browse through a video in the shop , so its content remains a mystery until after you have purchased it and taken it home . |
| 23 | This can be hung on a classroom wall and it can double as a speaker for audio machines . |
| 24 | As we said when introducing an earlier case , managers have to learn to make sense of all kinds of technical documents , so we are not going to apologise for making you wade through a selection of press releases , offers and the like . |
| 25 | ‘ Be not cast down : if ye saw Him , who is standing on the shore holding out His arms to welcome you to land , you would not only wade through a sea of wrongs , but through hell itself , to be at Him . ’ |
| 26 | The Regional Council has not attempted to argue that increased levels of infill can and do compensate for a shortage in the HP4 supply . |
| 27 | On his international debut the sweeper Simon looked the genuine article , while the central defender Monzon showed he can compensate for a lack of height with good positioning and excellent timing . |
| 28 | He told the Federal Assembly that the devaluation , the second in less than four months , would compensate for an excess in public spending during the past nine months equivalent to US$5,400 million . |
| 29 | It is also likely , in reference to the matters discussed in Chapter 6 , that under communicative pressure learners will place more reliance on lexical means than on the intuitive assumption that context can compensate for an absence of refinement in grammatical signalling . |
| 30 | This may arise as a consequence of an unsuccessful or ill-considered approach to a potential purchaser or from the nature ( or financial condition ) of a prospective client and the motive for requesting us to carry out the work . |