Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That gives us a bit more to go on . |
| 2 | Ken 's got a bit more to do then ? |
| 3 | Well he 's like that different taste , never sort of with Christopher stands for what he likes and what he does n't like , shall we mix it round a bit more to mix in ? |
| 4 | I 'll have to work a bit harder to make up for lost time when I get there . |
| 5 | LABOUR leader John Smith launched a think-tank yesterday to come up with ideas for putting the party into power at the next Election . |
| 6 | they probably do n't get up until quarter to nine , see they have a struggle really to get there on time |
| 7 | and proposals and I 'd like to start with a vote just to find out what kind of hundred this is , do you have a driving licence ? , button one for yes and button two for no seventy two of this hundred have a driving licence which I think is some way above the National average , let me ask you do you have the use of a car or other vehicle whenever you want it ? , button one for yes and button two for no and of seventy two er licence holders , sixty three have the use of a car which again I think is some way over the National average , now what cars do you have ? , now let see what people are driving here there |
| 8 | So are you gon na have to restrict training in er operational flights jaguar at a stretch just to stretch out the hours ? |
| 9 | But if Herrnstein believes that there is a conspiracy afoot to discount totally the influences of inheritance on intelligence , this is nonsense . |
| 10 | It does not need a lawyer either to draw up any document or to advise you although you may wish to consult a professional adviser if a particularly large sum is involved or if there are complicated conditions surrounding the gift . |
| 11 | FOREIGN ministers of the Organisation of African Unity endorsed a plan yesterday to set up the first pan-African peace keeping force , despite a chronic shortage of money . |
| 12 | But in the 1810s their studied simplicity must have made the post-Adam school of design then current in Edinburgh seem fussy and dated to a degree hard to appreciate now . |
| 13 | If it 'd been me and I were gon na put it there , I would have put a window there to look out of . |
| 14 | Evans took a taxi out to a forest just to get away from every islander asking him how much he liked the place . |
| 15 | Ted Walker astonishes with his honesty , and this autobiography bubbles with sane optimism , a refusal ever to give in to the temptations of self-pity . |
| 16 | It was a sign never to play again . |
| 17 | He had grown up in the splendid sixties , had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth , enjoyed whatever he did to the hilt and was enough of a gentleman never to look back . |
| 18 | Then she remembered ; the car , the box , the head , she sat up with a start only to clatter back down again . |
| 19 | Sharpe stepped a pace forward to look down at the map . |
| 20 | To prove her point , she offered the phone number of a solicitor who had joined a union just to get in . |
| 21 | Their course is so far short : the first national Green Party founded in New Zealand as the Value Party in 1972 , the next in the United Kingdom in the following year and then a long gap until Ecolo in Belgium in 1980 heralded a rush either to set up or amalgamate existing groups into parties in the early and mid-1980s . |
| 22 | I did a length just to loosen up and by the end of it I was desperate for a cigarette . |
| 23 | Right , we need a cloth now to wipe up the bits round the edges . |
| 24 | Ma , will you write me a letter tomorrow to go down town to look at some clothes |
| 25 | Within about ten days she was happy enough with my mother and sisters around , but it took her a lot longer to settle down with other people , and with animals . |
| 26 | ‘ Och well , John , there 's not a lot else to do up there in winter , ’ he had observed , radically changing McLeish 's views of the activities available to schoolchildren in country districts . |
| 27 | ‘ There is a lot more to come out about this flight . ’ |
| 28 | Moreover , Bihar had been forced a year earlier to release over 27,000 undertrials , following orders from the Supreme Court in Hussainara ( Shourie 1980 : 137–8 ) . |
| 29 | This was an entirely legitimate and historically well-founded practice , but Nixon carried it to extreme lengths , seeing it as a way both to cut back on federal expenditure and to impose his own order of spending priorities . |
| 30 | I intend to commission a survey soon to find out more about what the public want from the citizens charter and what their expectations and priorities are in taking forward this work . |