Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dried peas , beans or shells stored in durable containers can be much more satisfying than empty packets which , unless regularly replaced , tend to fall apart so easily . |
| 2 | ‘ Still , I intend to go back there as soon as possible , hopefully this time to be applauded . ’ |
| 3 | I tend to paint very quickly , so the paint is always rather damp as I flit round the paper , putting a colour here and one there , and at first it all looks a bit of a jumble . |
| 4 | ‘ Those nondescript spots and blotches of fur and feathers are the wildlife we tend to see most often , ’ he writes . |
| 5 | ‘ You mean to go back there after them ? ’ he questioned , glittering . |
| 6 | so it looks like you 've got future there , then you go trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot back now you 've got something slightly different there here you had der der der der der you said okay , future , then you went back there and you found that it was a present tense in English , right , but you needed a future in French because the whole thing is future . |
| 7 | Research is , of course , carried on outside the corporate sector in universities and other institutions of learning ; even so , these bodies are increasingly dependent on commercial sponsorship , and corporate funds tend to flow more readily into projects identified by , or otherwise of interest to , the sponsor . |
| 8 | Now these , these tend to go fairly well together . |
| 9 | Cause the front tyres tend to go down more because they 're carrying more weight . |
| 10 | They too tend to work very hard , harder than they would have done at school , and get good results . |
| 11 | The first is whether we tend to accept too readily the veracity and accuracy of media reports . |
| 12 | and these tend to come in so I put them in there . |
| 13 | So civil servants tend to come out rather more into the open , to meet people on behalf of their ministers , receive deputations and so forth . |
| 14 | And er and with the wind sometimes the ball 's al that ball 's always running away from you and the way goalkeepers play now they tend to come out very quickly and more times than enough they get there first . |
| 15 | Tacit collusion is a form of non-co-operative equilibrium : it results from the rational , independent pursuit of self-interest , which courts tend to find not nearly as reprehensible , to say the least , as conspiratorial conduct . |
| 16 | For instance , road fund licence charges and petrol prices tend to creep up gradually , whereas decisions in the sphere of public transport can effect substantial changes almost immediately . |
| 17 | ‘ We intend to work just as creatively to negotiate a convention on climate change — a framework of action for the nations of the world . |
| 18 | But for their middle-class , middle-aged , CD-buying target audience , such shows , which tend to concentrate on either the roots of popular music or music from the less-developed world , offer the chance to explore the very ‘ essence ’ of a musical culture . |
| 19 | You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with . |
| 20 | ‘ I intend to find out just why we 're selling room rates to Travel Enterprise for less than they are worth , ’ he said slowly . |
| 21 | So I intend to find out exactly what is going on first , before I even consider giving my consent . ’ |
| 22 | Children become aware of this and tend to communicate in only those words that the computer understands . |
| 23 | This is consistent with the findings which indicate that young people tend to adjust relatively easily to working life and that the less academic tend to do so more than others . |
| 24 | If you want to see where probably the most significant event in English history occurred , visit the picturesque East Sussex town of Battle . |
| 25 | I want to see how long he 'll go on denying the fact that he was listening in , she told herself to justify her inability to leave . |
| 26 | I know that Quins have been heavily criticised for fielding weak teams in league games , but it is an amateur sport and they are entitled to select whomsoever they want to see out there . |
| 27 | I want to go through there anyway . ’ |
| 28 | I want to go even further into directions which are also being explored by , for example , the geneticist L. L. Cavalli-Sforza , the anthropologist F. T. Cloak , and the ethologist J. M. Cullen . |
| 29 | And one prominent club , Bangor City , want to go even further by staging all their home games in midweek . |
| 30 | ‘ If you want to go on further I 'm game . |