Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara had told her to go to bed , or rather to go and look at the TV programme she wanted to watch . |
| 2 | She has always been interested , and taken part , in physical exercise , and was introduced to Medau through Joan Daniels ' first class in 1966 ; June enjoyed it so much she went on to train and qualified as a Medau teacher in 1974 . |
| 3 | Pauline Kenward , the Society 's Chairman , who comes from Reigate first became interested in Medau in 1968 when she joined Margaret Charlwood 's class ; from there she went on to train and qualified as a teacher in 1974 . |
| 4 | For instance , on Big World Café they had a new and young Black male presenter ( Hawkeye Cherry ) teamed up with a more experienced White woman presenter ( Mariella Frostrup ) , so there was a kind of playing-off of inequalities , if you like , of gender against those of age and race , presumably to try and break with the hegemony of young(ish) White males in the area of music programming . |
| 5 | Three artists have come together to paint and teach in an idyllic setting in West Sussex . |
| 6 | For most of those who link computing and boredom , the explanation is that they have to spend many working hours a day behind luminous screens endlessly tapping a plastic typewriter keyboard , after which they are usually fit only to go and goggle at the luminous screen in their living rooms every night . |
| 7 | Should he be forced not only to retire but to leave behind a multi-party state , the example will be widely noted in Africa . |
| 8 | I bent down to try and look in the back of the Golf . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't sit there ’ they chorus at an unfortunate guest foolish enough to try and sit in a chair in the drawing-room which was last used by Queen Victoria . |
| 10 | Whenever they let a letter pass , it is only to encourage and watch for the answer . |
| 11 | The normal price for any given daily supply of fish , which we are now seeking , is the price which will quickly call into the fishing trade capital and labour enough to obtain that supply in a day 's fishing of average good fortune ; the influence which the price of fish will have upon capital and labour available in the fishing trade being governed by rather narrow causes such as these . |
| 12 | ‘ Experts ’ from a variety of European agencies were brought together to discuss and report on the various cross-cultural attitudes to drug-taking among young people . |
| 13 | Investigation will centre on the ability of firms not only to understand and react to the markets in which they operate but also to introduce and develop further new products and processes . |
| 14 | Edward , who died in 1932 aged 64 , preached against the evils of drink in Darlington market place , and Thomas emigrated to Canada to continue the work , only to collapse and die in a pulpit at the end of a sermon . |
| 15 | Around 12 million more will tune in to watch or listen to the Boat Race . |
| 16 | She crossed one leg over the other , and he 'd forgotten the incident again until he 'd gone to the car to bring in his brief case and check on the records before they went down to eat and to listen to the Donegal sound of Michael and his boys in the Connemara suite . |
| 17 | At the final session the whole group met together to pray and reflect on the week . |
| 18 | He went to her , gently persuaded her to wake sufficiently to undress and get under the covers . |
| 19 | ‘ There was another accident a little way down the carriageway and people slowed down to rubberbeck and drove into the back of each other . ’ |
| 20 | The doctor trekked through the driving snow behind the girl , and then left her downstairs to go and tend to the mother . |
| 21 | ‘ In fact , just before the King left for Kinghorn , he instructed me to order Father John not to go but stay at the castle till he returned . |
| 22 | Rather , he is expressing his own agreement or disagreement in attitude , and to agree or disagree in attitude is not to agree or disagree about an attitude . |
| 23 | Traditionally , however , the fine-boned Gloucester , which is about the same size as the Dairy Shorthorn , is a milk animal happy not to try and compete in the beef market with the neighbouring Hereford , and it has become a handsome , elegant house-cow or single-suckler , or a useful milk producer for the small-scale farmhouse cheese-maker . |
| 24 | We also saw that context can have an effect on the speed of visual word recognition , although experiments by Fischler and Bloom ( 1979 ; 1980 ) suggest that the effect is inhibitory rather than facilitatory , with a word taking longer to identify when preceded by a context which makes it semantically anomalous . |
| 25 | Not to assign or sub-let without the Landlord 's consent ( although this consent should not be withheld unreasonably ) |
| 26 | I could never stand and watch so would walk away to wink and flirt with the young novices . |
| 27 | An example of such a clause is one which says the employee is not to canvass or solicit during a period of five years from the date of the determination of this agreement for whatever reason any person , company or firm who were customers of the employer with whom he dealt during the last three years of his employment . |
| 28 | He tried hard not to admire or approve of the heroine , tried to imagine that life was not like that really . |
| 29 | If ever a man and a club seemed , in theory , to be ill-suited , then it is Winterbottom and Harlequins , the club who once caused Dick Best to say when confronted by a bout of absenteeism of Saturday : ‘ All perfectly valid excuses of course ; skiing in Andorra , shopping in Harrods … ‘ |
| 30 | 7.7.4 not to store or bring onto the Premises any article substance or liquid of a specifically combustible inflammable or explosive nature and to comply with the requirements and recommendations of the fire authority [ and the [ reasonable ] requirements of the Landlord ] as to fire precautions relating to the Premises Some tenants sell inflammable or what may be considered to be otherwise dangerous substances in the normal course of their business . |