Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The view is widespread among the senior officers we talked to , and among ordinary policemen , that policewomen , as women , have instincts and capabilities which make them better suited to specific types of police work . |
| 2 | What began as an exotic flirtation with the Other , a pop foray into a perceived Heart of Darkness , soon turned into a full-blown dance initiative in those irony-clad years of 1980–81 , with everyone from Japan to ABC to Cabaret Voltaire to Spandau Ballet to Heaven 17 conspiring to venture a white funk whose snappiness was a jeer at the indies , a white funk that would saunter easily into the charts and every other public place and , with their manifestos , make them better places to be . |
| 3 | Just hold onto the idea that certain operators will possess mathematical properties which make them perfectly suited to the role of representing physical observables . |
| 4 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 5 | I am already aware of some of your extremely worthwhile efforts and send my best regards to all those involved with the Association and wish you every success in the future . |
| 6 | In general , it is fair to say that one can use a magnification of × 50 for each inch of aperture ( forgive my temporarily reverting to Imperial measure ! ) , so that a 3-inch refractor will bear a magnification of × 150 , a 6-inch will bear × 300 , and so on . |
| 7 | D' ya ever talk to yourself ? |
| 8 | " D' you ever go to funerals , Kate ? " |
| 9 | ‘ Whether or not I want you around seems to be beside the point , does n't it ? |
| 10 | And the market researchers tell the companies more and more that their customers want something more tailored to their special requirements . |
| 11 | Well every time I send something out writes to me on bloody DOPACS saying this is not the way to disseminate this information . |
| 12 | It was n't to take revenge on Kee that he wanted a woman — a want he now confessed to Theo . |
| 13 | As though their own countryside let them down compared to that of Italy , the wealthy English had with them when travelling a Claude Glass through which they viewed the passing landscape from their carriages . |
| 14 | Let me just suggest to you that you are sending all the wrong signals on women , on Party constitution , on economic matters , on policy matters , the modernizers have lost the impetus , they 're sending the wrong signals . |
| 15 | Let me now go to a number of scriptural passages to see how the New Testament sees the death of Jesus . |
| 16 | " Let me now read to you the conclusion of Dr Baly in his Report on Epidemic Cholera , drawn up at the desire of the Royal College of Physicians and published in 1854 . |
| 17 | I hope you still want to be in the CCC . |
| 18 | I do n't know if any of you have ever been to Newcastle before — if not , I 'd be happy to meet you at the station , or wherever , ( as long as it 's not too early in the morning ! ! ) , take you for a drink , and show you how to get to the ground . |
| 19 | First to go was a rather nervous Richard Crout with Jesse , a 1908 steam roller , belching out smoke he gingerly took to the roads . |
| 20 | Suffice it here to point to what we can call a third , or micro- , level of decision making , the other two being the level of allocating as between health and , for example , defence ; and the other , between different sections within health care . |
| 21 | Let us instantly go to my closet or yours and come upon our mutual trial for you have fired by soul with impatience . |
| 22 | Let us finally return to that letter written to Peter Tatchell in 1983 . |
| 23 | In the light of high political intent and peasant sentiment , let us now return to the market town of Roslavl' and examine Party and urban reactions there in 1922 . |
| 24 | Having learned the mechanisms , let us now return to perceptions of the economy . |
| 25 | Let us now return to the question of assigning lexical units to lexemes . |
| 26 | Let us now return to Table 11.1 and look at the operational details and financial situation of the companies mentioned there in greater detail . |
| 27 | Let us now return to the topic of " existence predicates " . |
| 28 | Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent . |
| 29 | Let us now come to the second response , namely worship . |
| 30 | Let us now turn to another example of how mathematics , through the breadth of its applications , allows us to attack more than one problem with a single weapon . |