Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel that these difficulties have gone on too long for there to be a realistic prospect of change in time for these children and given their improvement whilst in foster care , where they are not brought up in their parents ' conflict , it is not in the children 's interests for them to go and live with the father and that they need to be placed in an environment with permanent substitute parents , who can meet the boys ' physical , emotional , educational and social needs . |
| 2 | So he told me to go and ask for a job there . |
| 3 | In the meantime , the director who would have done it , who is a name director , has asked me to go and work at the RSC because she 's now busy for exactly that period of time . |
| 4 | We are more seriously cheating children if we fail to teach them how to use language than if we fail to teach them to enjoy and participate in the arts . |
| 5 | ‘ In the end we asked them to come and sit at the back of the stage , ’ Miss Picon recalled . |
| 6 | Neil had told me to try and forget about the ‘ mystery ’ , and this proved surprisingly easy to do . |
| 7 | Since we needed someone to skin and look after the specimens we collected , we eventually employed a lanky youth called Yusuf German who had worked for a Greek taxidermist in the town . |
| 8 | This resort is a good choice for the elderly and infirm as the area is very flat and there is plenty to see and do in the vicinity of the lake . |
| 9 | We also offer a stimulating homebase from which to enjoy and learn within a rural setting . |
| 10 | There is plenty to do and see in the area and if you like long walks , Britain 's longest footpath , the South West Way , is on your doorstep — in total it is 560 miles long . |
| 11 | It was more than 10 years before Serfaty could bring himself to speak and write about the terrible things that had happened to him and his colleagues . |
| 12 | Just to sell them a product without educating them to challenge and to care about the ingredients that go into those products would be wrong . |
| 13 | The point is , you see , that I did not ask you to go and look at the time on that clock ; I merely asked you to study the numerals on it . |
| 14 | Given that we can adequately define who to include as belonging to the category " the population of the United Kingdom " , and providing that we have convenient lists which do not seriously under-represent significant subgroups , then reasonable estimations of population values can be made from the sample . |
| 15 | I mean we hope we 're doing the right thing , and as I say the response we 're getting seems to indicate that , but we have not erm followed through each of we have a large number of participants every year , you see , in the order of about erm a hundred and fifty each year , so very difficult for you to try and follow through the fate of each of them . |
| 16 | The consultation process usually takes the form of a letter describing the application and inviting you to come and look at a copy of the application and any drawings submitted with it . |
| 17 | I want you to come and look at a week-old bull calf . |
| 18 | The point I want to get across here is that this a P Way form , it is your form , not my form , not the Q A form , it 's the P Way form for you to use and to change to the way that you want it to change . |
| 19 | In exactly thirty-five minutes , I want you to leave and go to the airport terminal . |
| 20 | Then , very important for people like me , we developed a secondary palette , who 's function is to allow you to eat and talk at the same time |
| 21 | but it also enables to you to eat and breathe at the same time . |
| 22 | I think university just trains you to think and to prove to an employer that you can apply yourself for three years ; perhaps because in the sciences you learn things that will be relevant in your career , but as a training for an individual I do n't think it is any more worthwhile . |
| 23 | On moonless nights there was nothing to do but stay in the burrow . |
| 24 | But there was a flat period just after lunch when there seemed nothing to do but wait for the special meeting at half past three . |
| 25 | ‘ I was left sitting on my own with nothing to do but concentrate on the screen . |
| 26 | Most of the men there had families or commitments in England , and while they would support the Irish cause in word and sometimes in deed , no-one ever seriously considered leaving everything to go and fight for the cause . |
| 27 | Oh yes we saw the the news reports found them rather disturbing erm we thought we 'd do something to help and decided on a fashion show . |
| 28 | And how are we to understand and deal with the contemporary return of the repressed , in terms of spiralling levels of recorded crime and riotous disorder ? |
| 29 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 30 | In the time it took Nick to arrive Harriet forced herself to wash and change into a clean sweatshirt , though the most mundane of everyday actions seemed a huge effort . |