Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The lieutenant had n't gone fifteen yards before the first bullet hit him , but somehow he still managed to carry on until he reached the wire .
2 er , if the , if the , er service charge costs had gone up in the meantime , obviously after you reached the end of the first accounting period you have some accounts to go on and you have a much better idea of what the costs are actually going to be
3 It 's just it 's very very very well , put it this way , children seem to learn language very very very very quickly and they 've got very very very little data to go on when they learn the language .
4 He began his term in office much in the spirit he intends to go on when he blasted the banks and receivers for causing so much misery among the small business community .
5 And when it was n't working on the farm a transport on the back and a bag of straw to sit on and it became the family 's personal transport .
6 Nobody invited Miss Honey to sit down so she chose a chair and sat down anyway .
7 I want to sit down before I go a rush this morning
8 It 's kind of late now and I 'm in no condition to drive so when I get the 205 I only take it as far as the outskirts of Inverness where I stop at the first lit Bed and Breakfast sign I see and talk politely and slowly to the pleasant middle-aged couple from Glasgow who run the place and then say goodnight , close the door of my room and fall fast asleep on the bed without even taking off my jacket .
9 We have to stand somewhere as we decide the next step forward .
10 That little girl had to struggle on because the flat rent had to be paid , she had to struggle on because she had a car , kids had to go to school , until she died .
11 So that was a contrast from the people near the hospital where I was and , what happened was , we used to do a little service and then anybody that wanted to be seen used to come along and we needed an interpreter and it was a bit like a surgery really , and they would come with any problems , and anyone who was severely ill we would then take back in the Landrover back to the hospital .
12 In a bare tank ( minimum size 10″ x 6″ x 6″ ) , suspend two spawning mops on pieces of cork or polystyrene and place a clump of Java Moss on the tank base for the female to hide in when she requires a respite from spawning .
13 Then I heard a voice call me to come in so I turned the door knob and entered .
14 Unionists did not wish to stand down where they had a candidate of their own ready to fight ; in these circumstances , the NDP did remarkably well in 1918 , winning eleven seats , all in Labour strongholds where neither Unionists nor Coalition Liberals had much desire to stand , and they beat both MacDonald and Henderson .
15 No cos it it gives no and then it used to freeze over and you got a beautiful skating rink there
16 ‘ We found that there was a lot of problematical sickness in the non-certified days , ie a lot of people were coming back to work just before they needed a doctor 's certificate .
17 I 'll try to slip over if I get a spare minute .
18 ‘ It took ages to come out and we had no control over the artwork .
19 Taking blood samples to screen for Sickle Cell disease ; the only way to find out whether someone has the condition , or is a carrier .
20 The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer .
21 Various organizations were contacted to find out if they had an details of library issue systems using CBM or BBC microcomputer " both of which were already available in the school .
22 But her Pakistan people 's party must wait until tomorrow to find out if it has the power that comes with control of the key state of Punjab .
23 Finally and in total conclusion I must tell you what happened when we took Adam to a specialist to find out if he had a particular familial complaint .
24 He says he wanted to find out if he had the intellectual ability to complete a degree starting from nothing .
25 She questioned him , trying to find out if he had an infection that could account for the temperature .
26 And we should just sort of say what is necessary to find out and everybody gets a few telephone numbers or telephone calls check out addresses find out about new ones , get in contact with the district council erm what is in the pipeline .
27 One manager told him to come back when he had a grade C in maths .
28 How to work out whether you have a low income
29 Out comes my pocket calculator to work out if I have an exact number of repeats .
30 It 's for you and your ex-wife to work out when you see the children ( assuming they 're with her ) .
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