Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The image of suddenly being called in to take over from George Birkitt and astounding the critics with his unsung brilliance was one that would not go away , however hard he tried to suppress it . |
| 2 | Then she rang Mrs Chalk , who agreed to curtail her afternoon off to dash back to Armscott , ready to pass on the news if Charles called home first . |
| 3 | She handed me a bill from the Spring Onion and mouthed ‘ Sorry , ’ before skipping off to catch up with Lisabeth . |
| 4 | Occasionally , he broke off to bound up to Ruth Bassett 's bedroom where she was getting ready . |
| 5 | You should relax for a while when you have finished before rushing off to get on with life . |
| 6 | He 's pasta-loving Italian policeman Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia who is being lined up to take over as ITV 's top detective . |
| 7 | But one day in late summer , when I was pointing the otter out to my passengers , and as usual it got up to move out of sight , I saw to my surprise that it was followed by two cubs ! |
| 8 | When his head jerked back to look up at Grant again , it was n't his teeth that were gleaming in the dark now , it was the whites of his eyes , wide with fear . |
| 9 | So when , a few years later , Céline abandoned Adèle and ran away to Italy with a singer , I went to Paris and brought Adèle back to grow up in England . ’ |
| 10 | Three shifts are operating flat out to keep up with demand . |
| 11 | Working flat out to keep up with demand , bales of yarn are stacked ready for the next load by Despatch Foreman , Peter McCall . |
| 12 | A company which makes silk ties for the Buckingham Palace gift shop is working flat out to keep up with demand . |
| 13 | The Registered Visiting Students enriched our experience by their contributions to College life and we were delighted to welcome back Emma Sky who went out to fly back with Mona Wahbe , from Gaza , who is sponsored by the Oxford Student Scholarship Fund and is famous for her sparkle and animated use of English . |
| 14 | She was going to explain , too , how the milk came in glass bottles on a cart pulled by a brown horse , and how sometimes the horse left steaming heaps of brown , oval-shaped droppings in the road which people ran out to scoop up with coal shovels and take for their vegetable plots . |
| 15 | Then came back to sign on at Westminster Evening Institute for a University extra-mural course in Sociology . |
| 16 | But of course parents do get anxious , about little problems and large : that their children will eat too many sweets and watch too many unsuitable videos at another child 's house : that their child will be egged on to get up to pranks , truant from school or worse . |
| 17 | Watch out , too , for sales staff or reps who encourage you to ‘ buy now ’ , implying that prices are about to go up on April 5 . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you realize , ’ he said , ‘ that the whole school is about to go up in flames today ? ’ |
| 19 | It turned out that he had locked himself out of his room which was likely to be embarrassing as I , for one , was not about to go down to reception for a key for him . |
| 20 | Roger Hardman of broking house James Capel reckons the smaller company is about to come back into fashion in a very big way . |
| 21 | French troops are not about to come back under NATO command . |
| 22 | By May , when a note from Rome told her the Brownings ' party was about to come back to Florence , she felt much more stable . |
| 23 | Roman would gladly say goodbye now he was about to catch up with Garry . |
| 24 | I 'd say there was at least 4/5 clubs on the phone this morning , including Blackburn , as they were about to swoop down on Sharpe for 3.5 M until he re-signed late last week . |
| 25 | Professor Eloff ( Northern Transvaal ) is representing Dr Danie Craven , who has run South African rugby for more than 30 years and is about to stand down on grouds of age and health . |
| 26 | WELL and truly ramped , the Tokyo stockmarket is about to shut down for Japan 's annual Golden Week holiday . |
| 27 | We 're about to run out of time . |
| 28 | The Sudanese Government said yesterday that three towns — including Juba , the biggest in the south — are about to run out of food . |
| 29 | They 're about to cash in on striker Mark Stein , who 's on his way to Chelsea from Stoke for 1.6 million pounds . |
| 30 | Throwing back the covers she was about to get out of bed , when the far wall suddenly exploded inwards and a broiling mass of water burst into the room . |