Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After David had been there a couple of weeks , I used to go off doing odd bits of work in London , working as a journalist , although I was n't very keen on that side of my life at the time — there were other things that interested me more . |
| 2 | Khasbulatov later appeared on television to apologize for having caused offence . |
| 3 | There had already been one heated exchange between herself and the school managers , when Outram had pointedly refused to apologize for introducing controversial subjects . |
| 4 | Monogamy did not , however , simultaneously restrict the sexual freedom of the men , in spite of a pretence otherwise , since men had nothing to lose through philandering . |
| 5 | The harp is here set to the dominant 7th in the key of E. Six bars ' rest provide time and to spare for setting the pedals . |
| 6 | But in a television interview at the end of 1989 Kylie confessed that the pressures of international stardom meant that now she had precious little time to spare for making her own clothes . |
| 7 | A rival cheetah that does n't have such big leg muscles may not run quite so fast , but it has resources to spare for making an extra lot of milk and therefore perhaps rearing another cub . |
| 8 | The colonies had at first been left to look after themselves because the king had no money to spare for defending them nor any forces he could send across the Atlantic , but after 1650 it was accepted that the colonies had a right to expect to be protected against European attack , though not against Indian or other local problems . |
| 9 | For example , the Rupert Stanley College of Further Education at Whiterock , where the conference was taking place , had to wait for Making Belfast Work money before it was set up . |
| 10 | Elizabeth , dear , we 'll have to see about training a new cook . ’ |
| 11 | This man also promised to see about getting us some magazines and a radio . |
| 12 | ‘ Sarah has gone to see about getting cards printed , but with the weekend it will be difficult . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Gran died , and left her house to me , so someone had to arrange about selling it . |
| 14 | The garden was his domain ; he had his rabbits to feed and the birds to admonish for ravaging his cherry trees . |
| 15 | Gates was very careful to caution about overestimating the duration of his company 's exceptional record on profit margins , however . |
| 16 | to go for go for the C each time cos there are n't many that start with a K. |
| 17 | I left the aircraft in order to go for de-briefing but I got as far only as the jetty when an attack was made on the Sunderland by three Me109 aircraft . |
| 18 | Theodosiou was the first to go for stamping in the 72nd minute and Greg Downs followed after protesting at a penalty decision . |
| 19 | Once the governors decide to go for opting out we 'll no longer be able to protect that land . ’ |
| 20 | Since methylation of Dcm seems to proceed through binding of SAM to the active site ( see above ) it seemed plausible that this reaction may be stimulated by the presence of DNA . |
| 21 | The silicon ingots are highly perfect single crystals and on the atomic scale the cutting has to proceed through breaking bonds . |
| 22 | This year they hope to place cameras on the sea floor to search for escaping hot water , which would confirm the existence of the chambers . |
| 23 | The ability to search for supporting detailed information as time and necessity dictate . |
| 24 | He has visited Vietnam several times to search for missing American soldiers , a venture that plays well in his district which is home to a lot of ex-servicemen . |
| 25 | Against a Bristol side content to cruise through experimenting with back-row moves and threequarter combinations , Irish too often fumbled and scrambled . |
| 26 | The acid test , of course , was to sit through Driving Miss Daisy without shedding a tear . |
| 27 | After adequate initial dilatation ( 15 mm ) , patients were instructed to attend for follow up at six to eight week intervals , or earlier in case of a recurrence of dysphagia . |
| 28 | Several pilot projects are under way to show that women can be persuaded to attend for screening and that lower than average bone mass will be found in some . |
| 29 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 30 | have to go through looking through them every time you want something . |