Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can spare the time to sprinkle out ½ ounce ( 14g ) every week , that is even more gradual . |
| 2 | They do n't throw the beer cans out ; they bury them ’ — Dan Saunders , Sheriff of Martin County , ( Quoted , like Sheriff Huffman , in Texas Monthly ) |
| 3 | ‘ Dropping a book to £9.99 from £15 does not make the public run out and flood the bookstores ; the book has got to have some other handle to it . ’ |
| 4 | It 's at the top of Geal-Charn that you must make the decision to go back or carry on to Carn Dearg . |
| 5 | We did n't make the decision to find out , look I 've got a complimentary ticket , and perhaps I do n't have to queue here , perhaps I might have to , but I 'll go and find out . |
| 6 | It 's a hundred and twenty miles — say up to three hours in that little crate — and he could make the night train down , arriving home in the early morning and , with luck , not being recognized by anybody on the trip or at the station , and not disturbing the family . ’ |
| 7 | Another suggestion is that it was a fulfilment of a prophecy such as ‘ I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight ’ ( Amos 8:9 ) . |
| 8 | You can make the bike move up to 1.5 metres in a corner just by shifting your weight . |
| 9 | Watch out for metal roofs and high ceilings : they 'll make the sound bounce around like water off a tin roof . |
| 10 | He says that the children are responding to a need in themselves , and believes that many adults do n't make the time to slow down and think about what they really need . |
| 11 | it wo n't make the paper lie down flat when er when it 's finished . |
| 12 | Market forces do not make the world go round . |
| 13 | When searching for the right adjective , bear in mind that your effect on the reader will be stronger if you can create physical sensation , if you can make the reader conjure up a colour , a texture , a smell or a sound , rather than using a word like ‘ soothing ’ , or ‘ lovely ’ or ( worst of all ) ‘ evocative ’ . |
| 14 | In water it forms aluminosilicates , which are inert as far as living organisms are concerned , so long as the level of acidity stays low — the silicon will make the aluminium separate out harmlessly . |
| 15 | And let Tuppe make the roof go up , down and up again several times . |
| 16 | He asserted that the West was searching for a pretext for an Israeli military assault on Iraq and that this was a mistake , " because by God we will make the fire eat up half of Israel if it tries to do anything against Iraq " . |
| 17 | I did n't want the person standing up because then you were back to the body shape , so he had to be sitting down . |
| 18 | He 'll want the road made up and start pestering the council . |
| 19 | She did not want the relationship to start up again . |
| 20 | I do n't want the mess spreading back into my working world . |
| 21 | Do you want the settee pulling up a bit ? |
| 22 | ‘ Do you want the cheque made out for cash ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We do n't want the arena closing up afore we 're out of it , Lads , ’ he explained . |
| 24 | Lord Wyatt did not want the fox to slip out unseen , so he first made sure every side of the wood was watched . |
| 25 | ‘ Also , if you allow the dog to sit on your settee , then replace that settee with a new one you do n't want the dog to sit on , you must not expect it to suddenly understand why it can not sit there . ’ |
| 26 | Does she want the stump digging up as well ? |
| 27 | ‘ There has been quite a bit of hype and I do n't think the film lived up to it . ’ |
| 28 | The cost of checking that a loss has been reported to the Police , Hotel or Courier and the time taken to do so must affect the decision to carry out an investigation . |
| 29 | I do n't want it , I do n't need the Calpol Come on ! |
| 30 | Is there a handy dustbin or a down-spout that will assist the thief to climb on to the roof ? |