Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara had told her to go to bed , or rather to go and look at the TV programme she wanted to watch . |
| 2 | Quite apart from Rosa , it is necessary for me to have somewhere to go and think without interruption . |
| 3 | For instance , on Big World Café they had a new and young Black male presenter ( Hawkeye Cherry ) teamed up with a more experienced White woman presenter ( Mariella Frostrup ) , so there was a kind of playing-off of inequalities , if you like , of gender against those of age and race , presumably to try and break with the hegemony of young(ish) White males in the area of music programming . |
| 4 | It was somewhere to hide and sob into your plastic glass of flat lager while all around , pondlife ran riot . |
| 5 | Prior Robert was at the foot of the steps in a moment , tall enough to see and read without mounting . |
| 6 | Three artists have come together to paint and teach in an idyllic setting in West Sussex . |
| 7 | For most of those who link computing and boredom , the explanation is that they have to spend many working hours a day behind luminous screens endlessly tapping a plastic typewriter keyboard , after which they are usually fit only to go and goggle at the luminous screen in their living rooms every night . |
| 8 | It seems to have been her settled conviction that she had only to see and to speak to him , and he would agree to return to her . |
| 9 | Although I knew that he was getting the care that he needed it was so hard not to be able to hold and feed him , but only to sit and look at him lying in this bright , plastic container . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't sit there ’ they chorus at an unfortunate guest foolish enough to try and sit in a chair in the drawing-room which was last used by Queen Victoria . |
| 11 | It was unlooked-for grace that after supper he should send his page to ask Mistress Hussey to be kind enough to come and speak with him in the small chamber the prince was using as a study . |
| 12 | Only Ember cared enough to come and talk to her ; from what he told her of the others , both the towered and the plain , she was glad . |
| 13 | Whenever they let a letter pass , it is only to encourage and watch for the answer . |
| 14 | It may have brought much comfort ( or much discomfort ! ) , it may have been continuing or a once only meeting but nevertheless was important in that another Christian was alongside to listen and share in such a way that you travelled on encouraged . |
| 15 | This cake mixture is perfect for the children 's cakes in this book , as it is light and moist yet firm enough to handle and cut into different shapes . |
| 16 | ‘ Experts ’ from a variety of European agencies were brought together to discuss and report on the various cross-cultural attitudes to drug-taking among young people . |
| 17 | Through assiduous exercise he came to be strong enough to ride and march with his troops . |
| 18 | Investigation will centre on the ability of firms not only to understand and react to the markets in which they operate but also to introduce and develop further new products and processes . |
| 19 | Edward , who died in 1932 aged 64 , preached against the evils of drink in Darlington market place , and Thomas emigrated to Canada to continue the work , only to collapse and die in a pulpit at the end of a sermon . |
| 20 | At the final session the whole group met together to pray and reflect on the week . |
| 21 | She disliked casual touching , the assumption of acquaintances or strangers that her disablement entitled them to handle her , as if her body were a despised encumbrance which it was proper gently to push and pull into place . |
| 22 | I wonder if you would be good enough to sign and return to me the attached letters of intent , in your capacity of Assistant Managing Director of the Division ? |
| 23 | He went to her , gently persuaded her to wake sufficiently to undress and get under the covers . |
| 24 | The doctor trekked through the driving snow behind the girl , and then left her downstairs to go and tend to the mother . |
| 25 | Japan had allowed the United States largely to provide and pay for its defence . |
| 26 | just to try and cope with it |
| 27 | around Easter time erm would yous be able to take some person just to come and sit in your shop for a week out of our school ? |
| 28 | Indeed time itself seems alternately to scud and to suspend during those ten seconds . |
| 29 | I could never stand and watch so would walk away to wink and flirt with the young novices . |
| 30 | Yes , we do need to fight and I did make reference that we need not just to organize and cooperate with other public sector workers , but we actually need to build a campaign with the users of the services . |