Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb base] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 2 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 3 | We succeed in operating them profitably , but the big national breweries regard such pubs as non-viable and tend to close them or sell them off , with inevitable consequences in the form of unemployment . |
| 4 | Each time you should apply side-strain and try to steer him away from them . |
| 5 | Shake off that depression , assess where you went wrong and try to put it right next year . |
| 6 | Far from flinging him out , you would rather discuss what has gone wrong and try to put it right ( apart from women in the North , who feel more strongly that their errant man should be shown the door ) . |
| 7 | ‘ If you make them public and fail to make them , you give people a good laugh and I do n't want that . ’ |
| 8 | Keep the arms straight and try to raise them a little higher with each count . |
| 9 | have their quality problems , that 's where you can score over but the prices are very very low and tend to pick them up . |
| 10 | Right , what we need to do is to hit it fairly hard and try to get it damped down as quickly as we possibly can . |
| 11 | Now they are much more relaxed and hope to turn it to their advantage while still denying involvement . ’ |
| 12 | Yet again the official syllabus and scheme of work may recommend the purchase and use of local materials gathered from the local environment when official administrative regulations preclude the headmaster from purchasing these and fail to provide him with any facilities for storing them once he has obtained them . |
| 13 | It was an effort to reach up for my dressing-gown which was hanging on the back of the door and I felt bitter against Richard because he did n't see that I was ill and come to help me . |
| 14 | When it fails to rise to the occasion , I no longer get rattled and threaten to chop it off with a pair of barber 's scissors , tie it up in a sack and drop it down a deep , dark well . |
| 15 | Appropriate sociability means saying the right things to strike up a rapport with your client , helping them to relax , feel comfortable and get to know you before cutting the business . |
| 16 | A crude summary of this political position would be that child care policies remove the children of the poor and attempt to absorb them into the middle class . |
| 17 | The hunt supporters believe the ban in unlawful and plan to challenge it in the courts . |
| 18 | Set against these points is the maintenance problem ; softwood doors need regular decoration to keep rot at bay , and even hardwoods require regular treatment with preservative and stain to keep them in good condition . |
| 19 | The lights I work under can get really hot and tend to dry it out so I have to be extra careful . |
| 20 | I 'll keep the coffee hot and try to save you a biscuit or two . |
| 21 | He would have to probe this man first and get to understand him . |
| 22 | Now we have lost one and want to replace it but the nursery do not grow it any more , and we can not find one that does . ’ |
| 23 | Now he is in a world where it 's nothing to fly to the Bahamas for a conference — and for a conference that 's probably not even going to be in the Bahamas ; a world where very high-class girls ring up uninvited and try to make you feel at home . |