Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Abbey National is the latest company to target the Chancellor as the man it most wants to replace Sir Campbell Adamson when he eventually retires as chairman . |
| 2 | Any insider who sets out to pursue a reflexive anthropology of policing eventually has to face difficulties which arise when he reaches an objective and analytic understanding of his society and its own specific versions of reality . |
| 3 | The problem has been deferred rather than resolved , as the pressure inexorably intensifies to relax rugby union 's amateur regulations . |
| 4 | Single people or couples living alone were encouraged to join a cookery pool , saving fuel by pooling rations and take it in turns to cook meals for other people in the group . |
| 5 | We 'll take it in turns to ride Joe . ’ |
| 6 | Taking it in turns to ride Joe , they enjoyed the journey to Linby . |
| 7 | Mcduff came with him to sit in the shelves and they took it in turns to keep watch . |
| 8 | She felt her hand being placed against his cheek , and then his lips pressing kisses upon it ; she pulled his hand back , and casting all caution to the winds pressed his palm to her own lips , fondling it , examining the scratched and chisel scars on his knuckles until he wanted her hand back again — and the manner in which they took it in turns to kiss hands through the wall became a competition between them to see who could demonstrate the greatest fondness , a competition that Jennifer was now desperate to win because all her instincts were telling her that Tristram was the only man she could ever love , and that through him lay her path to freedom and independence . |
| 9 | They moved to cheaper hotels where they were not supposed to have food in their rooms but took it in turns to get breakfast and hide tiny stoves in the wardrobes while waving the cooking fumes out of the window . |
| 10 | Between mouthfuls , our neighbours take it in turns to interrogate Rainbow . |
| 11 | Because you take it in turns to provide biscuits to have with erm Okay . |
| 12 | " Well , that 's very hypocritical of you , " said Clelia , " because you know quite well that she only wants to have James so as not to hurt your feelings . |
| 13 | So instead of specifying case frames ( or indeed semantic features ) for each individual word , Schank only needs to provide case frames for the primitives . |
| 14 | The Guardian only needs to seek agreement from 75 per cent of those who vote , while the Abbey had to secure the vote of 20 per cent of all eligible investing members , with 75 per cent of those in favour and a majority vote in favour from eligible borrowers . |
| 15 | But whereas he merely wants to help people satisfy their baser appetites , Thersites would wish to reduce everyone to his poisonous and diseased state . |
| 16 | The same passion , pride and hurt is in the playing and , illuminatingly , the purpose and intricate invention of the blues suddenly starts to take shape . |
| 17 | One only has to compare Scotland with England to see where the real problem lay . |
| 18 | Fortunately , she has saved a large deposit to put down on a flat so she only has to borrow £45,000 . |
| 19 | The poverty trap exists when a low paid worker receives a pay increase , but then , as a result of the higher income level attained , not only has to pay tax , but also loses various means-tested benefits previously received . |
| 20 | If a leader constantly has to threaten individuals , it is unlikely that those individuals will come to share the vision of the leader . |
| 21 | For this reason he stressed in his recommendations not only measures to improve prison conditions but also reforms of grievance and disciplinary procedures ( see Chapter 5 ) which might both improve the objective standard of justice within prisons and be seen as fairer by prisoners . |
| 22 | In the realm of healing much happens to authenticate Christ 's present will and power to heal the otherwise incurable , and yet , often distressingly , enough fails to happen to serve to remind us that we are not yet at the last day , and to leave the mystery of the ‘ not yet ’ all around us ’ ( Smail 1975:124 ) . |
| 23 | Surgeons used long syringes to extract marrow from her pelvic bones , while a motorcycle courier waited outside to rush the refrigerated marrow to the plane that would carry it to a Dutch hospital . |
| 24 | HaL Computer Systems will sell NetLabs Inc 's NetLab/Manager software as an option on its Sparc machines when they arrive : HaL apparently intends to build applications on top of the basic network management tool . |
| 25 | a very uncomfortable thing for me occurred — There were quite enough queens to register Casanova impotent , and yet every one of them shied away from me as if I had the plague . |
| 26 | The latter only applies to credit account holders . |
| 27 | Opting only applies to exempt supplies and to ‘ commercal ’ or ‘ industrial ’ buildings ( not dwellings or relevant residential or charitable buildings ; Sch 6A , para 2(2) ) . |
| 28 | This especially applies to research services because they supply the raw material with which we work , the information needed by the union to enable it to respond to the challenges which arise day by day . |
| 29 | This especially applies to steep banks , where , if the rise is too high it will be like climbing a ladder . |
| 30 | Special lighting effects , such as spotlighting one performer , or moving from group to group leaving part of the floor in darkness , all helps to add atmosphere , but , of course , is only possible with a large number and in a suitably equipped arena or hall . |