Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John was confident enough then to leave Flynn to it and to go off himself to look at the proposed routes of the Waterford & limerick and the Waterford & kilkenny lines , both of which had been authorized by Parliament last year but neither of which had yet gone to tender . |
| 2 | Oh , I 'm going to go off my head . |
| 3 | Oliver pretended to apologize for her . |
| 4 | They appeared to apologize for their pitiable weaknesses , instead of forming themselves into a counter attack . |
| 5 | She followed him up the room , repeating her sympathy and when that did not hold his attention , she began to apologize for her lateness in coming to speak to him about the tragedy . |
| 6 | We are all far too inclined to apologize for ourselves . |
| 7 | Quite as remarkable as the original display of ill temper was the graciousness which prompted him to apologize for it . |
| 8 | It seemed that Cathy had a lot to lose through her uncle 's death . |
| 9 | If trees are alongside a road they are likely to conceal telephone or power wires , making it dangerous to go between them . |
| 10 | ‘ There will have to be someone to go between you , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The commercial , scientific and industrial world of capitalism ( or socialism ) does not need religion in order to go about its business . |
| 12 | She tried to go about her tasks with the same thoroughness as before , but too often her mind strayed from what she was doing , and promotion became less and less likely . |
| 13 | Oddly , she felt less happy , less content , less well able to go about her daily business than she had in the three painful months of her sexual abstinence . |
| 14 | In Bajaur agency , the top opium and heroin producer in Pakistan , the government controls less than 36per cent of the district , leaving traffickers to go about their business peacefully and unimpeded . |
| 15 | Moreover , Zuwaya and Magharba thought that their larger groupings were temporary : activated to demand compensation , they then relapsed into the noumenon , leaving households to go about their business ; revenues from taxes were not kept in a fisc , but allocated to household budgets — and so on . |
| 16 | The solution was a simple one : employ priests with the sole responsibility of singing the memorial requiems so as to allow the parish priests to go about their customary role of caring for the spiritual needs of the living . |
| 17 | People continued to go about their daily lives , make their plans , take decisions , eat , drink , love , pray for a good harvest , pray for rain , in complete ignorance of the dramatic effect this far-off encounter would have on their lives . |
| 18 | ( Even if the activities do present curbs on the rights of the general public to go about their business , street action might still be justified where , for example , it brings to public consciousness some injustice that would not otherwise receive a public hearing . ) |
| 19 | It is as if , once they had found an effective way of surviving and reproducing , and a relatively stable environment in which to go about their business , there was little pressure to change their way of life . |
| 20 | Against the need for a society in which persons are free to go about their business unmolested might be weighed other considerations such as the importance to be placed on freedoms of speech and assembly . |
| 21 | Does the Minister agree that the best right for the people of the United Kingdom under any citizens charter would be the right to live and to go about their daily work without the continual threat of terrorism ? |
| 22 | The point is , we 've cleared up the area and it 's safe for children to play and people to go about their business . |
| 23 | The courts are supposed to be vigilant on behalf of the citizen , and mindful of the liberty to go about one 's lawful business . |
| 24 | Paging from Vodapage gives busy people like you the freedom to go about your business and get the message . |
| 25 | The smart-money crowd is saying that the revised scoring — with every race counting for title points — is tailor-made for this French Ferrari driver , who now has a more-than-willing helper in Jean Alesi to look after the business of returning the Ferrari compliment to Senna and allowing Prost to go about his business unencumbered by Brazilians wishing to use his piece of road . |
| 26 | Everybody , regardless of ethnic background , religious or personal belief , has the right to go about his or her life free from the threat of intimidation and assault . |
| 27 | If anything he was able to go about his duties as if he had been given carte blanche . |
| 28 | And as if that were not enough , the church bell is also , by ancient repute , therapeutic : place inside it if you can whatever part of your body is troubling you , get the bell ringer to go about his business and you will , with luck , be cured . |
| 29 | Every time a Labour MP pairs with a Tory , leaving that Tory MP free to go about his other business commitments , most of them highly paid , that MP abstained from taking part in opposing this government 's policies . |
| 30 | It 's just that none of us actually knows how to go about it . ’ |