Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must shout at them , slap their faces , magically coerce them , or manage to force them out of the corridor . |
| 2 | Of course , you must make sure you protect the baby from a toddler who pinches or slaps or tries to tip her out of the pram when your back is turned . |
| 3 | On no account should the patient be allowed or encouraged to get himself around by dragging his foot and leaning on the furniture . |
| 4 | In future , she would not go looking for love , or trying to manufacture it out of other lesser emotions , but she still believed it would find her one day . |
| 5 | The seeds are all the external influences that tend to throw us out of balance and they may affect us on any level of our being ; on the physical level it may be something simple like being exposed to a cold wind , getting soaked in the rain or even some form of trauma . |
| 6 | ‘ Why , Sarella ? ’ he grated after a battle that seemed to draw itself out to the limits . |
| 7 | If you do intend to follow your own programme see whether you can find a ‘ mentor ’ or other suitable person to whom you can go for encouragement and guidance when you need to , rather than attempting to battle it out on your own . |
| 8 | They are frankly calling their new cheeses by new brand names , making them in different shapes and original packings , selling them on their own merits rather than attempting to pass them off as the great traditional products of an unmechanized and unstandardized age . |
| 9 | One of the secrets of staying healthy is to discover what it is that tends to throw you out of balance and causes illnesses to appear . |
| 10 | ‘ Believe it or not , my responsibility to my daughter rated higher in my mind than going to seek you out at the hotel . ’ |
| 11 | Michaelmas daisies , which flower as late as October , are a good source of nectar for peacocks and tortoiseshells that need to build themselves up before hibernating for the winter . |
| 12 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
| 13 | There 's a regular traffic of straw from here to the west country which is mostly pasture-land and needs to order it in from outside the area for animal feed . |
| 14 | But you have no faith in the power of the economy and want to prop it up with the crutches of the rotten police regime . |
| 15 | Thomas Cook said the merger would create an effective duopoly and tour operators would find themselves ‘ subject to debilitating price wars funded by the dominant position of the duopoly and designed to drive them out of the industry ’ . |
| 16 | There is times I 've casually picked it up , dropped it on the floor and forgotten to pick it up for a while because I 'm on the phone and sometimes it is quite loud in my ear . |
| 17 | I put weight on my hands and tried to push myself up off the floor . |
| 18 | The United States broke the unofficial cartel with Canada and tried to shoulder her out of markets . |
| 19 | When he did n't reply she felt something bad approaching and tried to ward it off with an apology . |
| 20 | She glared at him , then scanned the road for anyone who might offer help if he turned nasty and tried to force her back inside the car , but , apart from an elderly woman walking an equally elderly terrier along the opposite pavement , the road was deserted . |
| 21 | I carried my bewilderment into the coffee shop and tried to drown it along with the froth of my cappuccino . |
| 22 | The Serbs were aware that the powers were not genuinely interested in Serbian independence , and tried to play one off against the other . |
| 23 | She laughed rather shrilly , grabbed his hands and tried to pull him up against her . |
| 24 | I went over to Sheridan to ask him to be quiet and he grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me on to his lap , and I overbalanced and fell and hit the table hard where he was sitting , and I caught the cloth somehow and pulled it with me and everything on it landed on the floor . |
| 25 | That was something he would never yield up — it was his protection if the Tsar 's soldiers ever tracked him down and tried to drag him back to his regiment to be court-martialled and shot , which was what Mickey Aronson said would happen . |
| 26 | So I went there and cornered her in the canteen and tried to chat her up for half an hour . |
| 27 | All this happened in the twinkling of an eye and just as quickly I extricated myself from the upholstered prison , scraped up my hat and tried to bash it back into shape as I hobbled to retrieve a far-flung shoe . |
| 28 | Nero sends his luv and wants to put you in for the chariot racing next time . |
| 29 | He divides his party and his flocks and herds into two , and plans to put one out of sight of the other . |
| 30 | At one time we kept pigs and used to feed them up with the waste food and sell them in the market . |