Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [pron] [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the er most important item I think Chairman is the work programme for the future year which commences at erm about twelve and forms the second half of the report and I would be very happy to deal with any questions and it is very clearly in the light of things that we 've already said , the first part of er that latter half of the report er which er emphasises the erm principal activities er to the department er that of strategic policy in paragraphs thirteen one , thirteen two and thirteen three are therefore perhaps the areas to which I would er draw you attention er most , but the report as whole is er I hope a reasonably succinct summary of what has gone on or what is proposed to be done and er in order to avoid simply what is already in the report , I , I would leave it at that point and say I 'm happy to deal with any questions . |
| 2 | She was able to keep Steve because where she lived within the er there was a little coronet of little tatty houses that have since been pulled down and she was related to fifteen in fifteen out of the twenty two houses she had a relative . |
| 3 | It closed a few years ago , they could n't knock it down because it was meant to be a prime example of nineteen thirties architecture . |
| 4 | Alexandra was not sure if she should sit down before she was invited to , but by now she hardly cared . |
| 5 | ( I had taken to climbing over the railings of the barracks each night , as the watchmen on the gate had been forbidden to let me in as I was known to be sleeping there . |
| 6 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 7 | Framlingham reached 60 without loss but the left-arm spinner , Daniel Jackson , broke through and it was left to the final pair to scramble a victory by one wicket . |
| 8 | The sort of abasement novices have to go through before they are admitted to an order . |
| 9 | Notwithstanding their absences , the day-today business of government had to be carried on and it was left to Ministers of the Crown to do this , noting their resolutions and decisions for later transmission to the monarch . |
| 10 | you sweat a lot and you 're supposedly meant to feel good for so long and then it 's meant to wear off and there 's meant to be no hangover effects or nothing and that 's why it 's a designer drug and that 's why it you know , it 's supposed to be so good . |
| 11 | The couple split up and it was left to Jacques and his parents to raise Nicolas . |
| 12 | Then she fell upon him , leaning out and abandoning herself to his grip , throwing both legs up until she was rammed to the hilt of him , and feeling that marvellous pulse as he squandered his month of continence into her , spending on and on . |
| 13 | Erm , of course it has to be remembered that all these lectures , or at least most of them , were erm voluntary compulsion and the men used to turn up because they were told to and er whether or not they showed little or no interest very often and it was all erm well a bit of a waste of time . |
| 14 | Her ‘ Tale of two orphans ’ focuses on two young African elephants — Ndume and Malaika — who she helped bring up when they were brought to Daphne Sheldrick 's sanctuary following the massacre of the rest of their herd by poachers . |
| 15 | The UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed concern at the constitutional implications of the judgment but pointed out that it was left to UK courts to decide whether to exercise the powers . |
| 16 | By the time she was thirteen the routine of agony and rebellion on one side and vengeful discipline on the other had worn everyone out and she was taken to a barber . |
| 17 | The blood gushed out and he was thrown to the ground . |
| 18 | It was not quite an oration because two days earlier speech had been phased out because it was discovered to be the ‘ root of all evil ’ , by somebody who never talked and was consequently the most unevil person in the world . |
| 19 | I think Neil should move on before he 's asked to . |
| 20 | And then the plate was passed from him to his murderer and it was passed round until it was passed to the bank manager who would n't give her the money and then back to her . |