Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She then went on to appear before a packed lecture theatre at the Physicians Hall to receive her award and the Edinburgh Medal from the Lord Provost and to deliver the traditional Edinburgh Medal Address . |
| 2 | We obeyed and went in to sit in a sombre half-circle round the fire . |
| 3 | A police helicopter has been called in to search for an armed robber who 's raided five petrol stations in three weeks . |
| 4 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 5 | They 're invited in to talk about a particular thing that 's coming in , about noise or about rats in the basement or about how to , and the interviewer has a very vague idea it 's a topic he 's heard it , he 's thought about it , he thinks it 's a local thing , and he 's actually trying to get something out of it in a sense . |
| 6 | The student will not feel a sense of guilt if she sits down to talk to an anxious patient . |
| 7 | Now I 'm not I 'm asking is whether its shareholders could write in to apply for a concessionary ticket to Alton Towers and get a reduced price if they so wish . |
| 8 | A bumpy ride : Major flies in to fight for a key marginal . |
| 9 | Winning the toss and putting Knutsford in to bat on a damp wicket gave leftarmer Mike Cross the chance to shine with 4–19 . |
| 10 | Then it goes on to look at a second play , B , and the replies to that . |
| 11 | She waited for a moment and then walked off to stand in a different part of the ship . |
| 12 | I used to stagger off to work like a complete zombie until I decided to take a lesson from the Chinese . |
| 13 | The doctor would feel her breasts , find nothing , smile and send her off to deal with a new , an incurable bitterness . |
| 14 | He works at weekends as a hospital porter , and finds it necessary to take a week off to compete in a national or international event . |
| 15 | Research and development expenditure is being focused predominantly on the BS2000 family of mainframes , and systems integration activities will be split off to operate as a separate business unit , he said . |
| 16 | In time , Keating shuffled off to spectate for a rival weekly but , as a kindly man , he offered encouragement to his successor . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , the JMP-1 has no input on the back and so in some ways it falls at the final fence , because I ca n't really see how you can set it up to work in a neat and user-friendly rack ; you 'd have to wire the thing up every time you gigged it . |
| 18 | These ideas proposed that the tail was asymmetrical , with a larger lower lobe and , when in use , tended to drive the head up to compensate for a heavy head shield and a lack of paired fins . |
| 19 | Illustrations and photographs can be maximised to full screen size if required , or set up to load as a full screen image every time instead of just half screen . |
| 20 | In the corner there was a discreet datalink terminal got up to look like a '30s radiogram . |
| 21 | Well , anybody could see that the stupid bu er the way they 've he was made up to look like a forty year old and he still looked like a twenty year old ! |
| 22 | The bar/restaurant near Union Station was dolled up to look like an English pub and doing it better than most London pubs did , to Maxim 's traditionalist eye . |
| 23 | High red serpents swayed up to hang for a lingering minute and fade ; busy green heads with white tails thrashed hither and thither and then dived to death . |
| 24 | To my left the shallow ridge that formed an edge of the valley rose up to finish at a shallow bump . |
| 25 | These were lean times for Spain 's biggest heroes — Jorge Martinez suffered technical frustrations in the 125 series , Alex Criville took much of the year to get up to speed on a 250 , while Sito Pons and Juan Garriga never got near the front of a 500 GP . |
| 26 | You should be aware of the peculiarities of the local weather before you make your mind up to live in a particular place . |
| 27 | [ Most of the recommendations were implemented : the Development Council was set up to advise on a ten-year development programme ; a large amount of building work was authorised and a special college opened in Leicester to train youth leaders , whose numbers doubled by 1966 . ] |
| 28 | The building society grapevine is buzzing with rumours of foreign predators queuing up to bid for a large British society . |
| 29 | Bheki is a new South African firm set up to operate as an authorised value-added reseller of DEC products and systems , and is backed by majority black organisations . |
| 30 | Bheki is a new South African firm set up to operate as an authorised value-added reseller of DEC products and systems , and is backed by majority black organisations . |