Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'd like two volunteers later on to come and have their faces cleansed , toned , and moisturized . |
| 2 | Many companies er were making fabulous profits and what reason was there to prevent a good shop stewards ' committee from going in to try and enhance their members conditions ? |
| 3 | For a second he looked at her intently and then walked over to stand and search her face with dark eyes . |
| 4 | I was just getting up to go and make my way on down to Greece when I felt a hand on my shoulder and heard a deep voice . |
| 5 | And linking this complicity with the way men operate at all levels of society , banding together , bolstering each other up to create and maintain their power base . |
| 6 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
| 7 | A J Lubin 's belief that Vincent was out to mock or deride his mother ( why not Kee ? ) by taking up with Sien , and by thus labelling his drawing , is of course pure supposition . |
| 8 | The programme aims to stimulate the children to find out the truth about Jesus through the eyes of His enemies , the Pharisees and the ‘ secret agents ’ that were often sent out to investigate and police His teaching and activities . |
| 9 | The Colonel Hope would never know , said Mr Crump , as he reached out to take and shake his acquaintance 's hand , what a boon such sensitive and untarnished support represented . |
| 10 | John 's letter to Hanns about the second Ballet Club visit , just before he himself left for Cape Town , ends with the remark ‘ You will soon be back to gossip and see my new nose ! ’ |
| 11 | Frustrated , she changed into her gardening clothes and went out to collect and spread her promised share of Iris 's manure heap — an activity which cleared her mind wonderfully so that when Harris rang at two o'clock she had at her fingertips every point she wanted to put to him . |
| 12 | For a minute longer father and son stood watching as the boat was rowed almost noiselessly out to sea ; and they were just about to return and make their way up the passage to the house when the sound of falling stones broke the silence of the night . |
| 13 | Because this museum possessed its own pottery kiln , pupils went on to make and decorate their own clay roof tiles , which were then fired in the kiln . |