Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes very difficult indeed not to be very cross , and there have been some occasions when I have had to go and chop up a few logs in order to abate my own aggression before replying . |
| 2 | We could hang up a few politicians too. , ‘ There 's that farmer who used a plough with horses . |
| 3 | The business sale agreement will usually provide that , if a VAT liability arises from a supply which the parties expected to be outside the scope of VAT , the consideration will be VAT exclusive where this is caused by a breach of warranty by Newco ( for example , that it will carry on the same kind of business as the vendor after completion ) . |
| 4 | Young birds learn from their parents and will carry on the same method . |
| 5 | No doubt they would send over a few H.E . |
| 6 | I could n't go on living in a place where I was no use , ’ she spoke with the quietness and desperate authority of someone who had discovered they could give up no more ground and live . |
| 7 | Q Could you please clear up a few points which I am sure confuse other readers as well as myself . |
| 8 | On the whole the Merovingian comites have been seen as similar to the late Roman comites civitatis , and there is certainly a case for thinking that both could carry out the same duties , which included the hearing of law-suits and the enforcement of justice , and could involve military leadership as well . |
| 9 | Should he dash off a few writs ? |
| 10 | why do n't you wait and see what the numbers are like and then you can always ring up a few people and say we 've got a space if you 'd like to come |
| 11 | Oxford United are facing their own big challenge … four defeats in a row has dropped them back into the bottom half of the table … last home win was this one against Millwall … tomorrow they should … they must dish out the same treatment to struggling Southend |
| 12 | okay it 'll be that so you can eventually you can build up a few tricks that 'll help you sort out a lot of the spelling . |
| 13 | Okay , let's have a break er if you can come back reasonably quickly er we can make up a few seconds . |
| 14 | The parents had all departed into the warehouse with Uncle Knacker to ‘ knock up a few looseboxes ’ . |
| 15 | If you could just jot down a few ideas that . |
| 16 | At first the simple machines available could only detect down a few inches , and — amongst other operating difficulties — encounters with tufts of grass caused them to constantly give off false signals . |
| 17 | They would wash up the same way even if they were not watched . |
| 18 | The Americans led 54–41 at half-time and it always seemed they could step up a few gears when required . |
| 19 | The drop down to half-moon Rhossili Bay below me was almost sheer , and the sea was striped with shimmering blue and white as endlessly long parallel lines of surf moved in slow motion towards the expanse of sand , on which I could just make out a few figures as tiny specks . |
| 20 | We could vaguely make out a few buildings as we caught the bubble up to La Saulire , and then headed down into Courchevel . |
| 21 | Either way , it was asserted , the cost would approach £350 million and the whole project could take on the same proportions as providing London with its third airport . |
| 22 | I will take up the latter point both in my Department and with my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary . |
| 23 | ‘ Should n't we call up a little support ? |
| 24 | Particularly where you 've more or less got the idea of it but you think you just want to sort of tidy up a few details an |
| 25 | As a personal contribution to the stability of British industry ( who on earth invented that one ? ) may I pass on a few nuggets of advice : |
| 26 | For the worry that they themselves might go down the same road meant that they could see that teachers who were now ‘ like that ’ had once been enthusiastic , committed students like themselves . |
| 27 | Why can we not go down the same road ? |
| 28 | How ironic that she felt so alive in Piers 's company , the one man who could shrug her off as carelessly as he would shrug off a few flecks of sand from his T-shirt . |
| 29 | ‘ George Graham says they can go up a few gears for the replay , but we 'll wait and see . |
| 30 | Let's go back a little way , between the woods , and have a scratch near that oak tree there — just by that white patch of stitchwort . |