Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have thus tried to fit to the NMR data by imposing these ε values ( on one junction at a time ) while also constraining the sugar puckers to agree with the COSY data . |
| 2 | My husband and I take turns to sit at the stall . |
| 3 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 4 | We investigated the town with a wheelchair , taking turns to sit in it . |
| 5 | Through Clennam , Cavaletto goes to lodge at the Plornishes , enabling Mrs Plornish ( Sally , except in chap . |
| 6 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
| 7 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
| 8 | Before doing so all offers received should be examined and explained to the client with a recommendation as to which offers to proceed with . |
| 9 | We now reach the impossible position where if somebody goes to appeal against us and they win , they can claim costs against us , and we actually have that now , we 've got fairly large sums of cost hanging against the council , so if I 'd like to ask Les to erm I 'd like to have his support for stronger planning laws , then we could do the things that he says we ought to do . |
| 10 | Roman Catholics ‘ should be received with lenity and all meekness , not to quench with delays the feeble smoke of conformity which seemeth to breathe from them , but to build wheresoever there is any foundation ’ . |
| 11 | He confesses his initial involvement to Sutherland , but will not say what happened after the petrol station unless Keifer agrees to go through the same process , starting with the taking of a sleeping draught . |
| 12 | He confesses his initial involvement to Sutherland , but will not say what happened after the petrol station unless Keifer agrees to go through the same process , starting with the taking of a sleeping draught . |
| 13 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 14 | All the people he goes to meet for dinner and tea . |
| 15 | In recent months the City 's leading institutions have taken it in turns to come under fire : for regulatory failure , for losing money , for not moving with the times , or for lack of leadership . |
| 16 | HONG KONG has stepped up the pressure on China , promising to publish democratic reform legislation soon unless Beijing agrees to come to the negotiating table . |
| 17 | Thus deadlock can occur if and only if the environment offers to communicate on a set of channels disjoint from one of the sets represented by the |
| 18 | Q : I think that is because people see it as an act of desperation when an actress agrees to appear in a nude magazine like Playboy . |
| 19 | He crawls , in a shame of abasement , when he longs to leap like a flung wave , like a cloud of starlings . |
| 20 | The amendment stated that the USA would attempt to dissuade any NATO ally from making force reductions , and that , should this attempt fail , the USA would seek to persuade other NATO allies to compensate for the resultant shortfall in overall NATO force levels . |
| 21 | ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle . |
| 22 | First , he applies it to the rites of purification which a warrior has to perform among , for example , the American Indian peoples of Natchez and the Pima , which involve the killer in being taboo for days , weeks or even months after the killing . |
| 23 | It goes as follows : " So man is approaching a more complete fulfilment of that great and sacred mission which he has to perform in this world . |
| 24 | Does Nanny needs to sit on the pot . |
| 25 | needs to sit in the printer and things like that erm so you do n't you know |
| 26 | For him this convenience has been largely a negative factor for he thought of America as offering no other comparable diversion ; there were ‘ no beer gardens — no public concerts ’ and the question he asked was ‘ Who wants to sit at home and play bridge every night ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Who wants to sit with women , talking women 's things ? |
| 28 | He wants to sit with Enid in the cool air . |
| 29 | No , he 's not gon na play just wants to sit with . |
| 30 | ‘ The problem is that Knighton wants to sit in the chairman 's seat , at least for a while , ’ one confidant said . |