Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 2 | We are , he observed , only too willing to make this sort of leap , and not only in the field of theology ( Hume was also very critical of what he saw as the pretensions of the science of his day to uncover the ‘ hidden springs ’ of things ) , but we need to be much more modest and cautious , to realise how limited the scope of our experience and knowledge is , and how liable our minds to go astray when they over-reach themselves and fish in waters too deep for their lines to plumb . |
| 3 | Now Bigwig 's put their backs up , and they 'll think they 've got to go on because he makes them . |
| 4 | He takes his hand , puts his blond head down and wills himself to go on until he reaches his yellow bedroom with teddies stencilled around the walls . |
| 5 | She wanted to sit down but I said we 've just got to get out as soon as possible . |
| 6 | She wanted to sit down but I said we 've just got to get out as soon as possible . |
| 7 | She 's a clumsy clogs that 's why I wo n't let her walk around with the baby if she wants to cuddle her I tell her to sit down and I tell her not to move well she 's always tripping over her feet . |
| 8 | We used to socialize together and they used my garden as their flat did n't have one . |
| 9 | She took a deep breath , was about to go in when she heard her name . |
| 10 | Nanny and rotten news seem to go together if you ask me . |
| 11 | He and she were similar but he had a natural goodness which she lacked , and she did not want to claim aloud that she understood him because that , in itself , would lead to misunderstanding . |
| 12 | Willie grew up around the tenements of Glasgow , and had an equally tough road to go down before he carried his first significant bag . |
| 13 | Then our small boat began to go down and we found ourselves in the water . |
| 14 | We need to leave them some to swim in before we catch them . |
| 15 | So then we had something to work on and we got him stroking Beth 's rear end . |
| 16 | When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later ! |
| 17 | I , I did n't intend to come on but I think it 's one of the best er , Sunday mornings I 've had in years ! |
| 18 | starting with the right material , the A&R staff try to encourage artists to write commercially and they introduce them to good studios , engineers , producers and other musicians . ’ |
| 19 | Yes you do go on tell i what have I just been telling you then that you need to concentrate on that I think you should be concentrating on . |
| 20 | One or two pensioners were unable to come along and we wish them well . |
| 21 | They asked me to come along and I thought I would because I thought children might respond more to me because they recognise me from television . |
| 22 | It was perfectly clear to everyone that the company could carry on enough trade to flourish only if it supplemented its income by bringing in more goods than its treaty permitted , and the smuggling trade became large enough to disturb the Spanish authorities . |
| 23 | Mr wanted to come in before we agreed I think . |
| 24 | Cos our John used to come in and she goes you know said you 'll have to excuse me , once they go away I can relax . |
| 25 | when she , this man was n't very well on , she saw him up at her window and she saw he was n't very well on the other side of the road and she sent down to ask him to come in and she gave him a cup of tea and everything and she was talking |
| 26 | ‘ Come in , Hari , sure Cleg will be that glad to see you , he 's been wearing his brother 's boots to work in and them pinching him like the devil . ’ |
| 27 | yeah , aha , cos you have to concentrate constantly and I think it really is a lot of work involved in it |
| 28 | We have tried to stand aside and we see ourselves as an institute that cares |
| 29 | And you see Lyndsey just ready to jump up cos he pinched her bottom , Alan . |
| 30 | To understand why damage to Broca 's area impairs speech we need to know both where it gets its input from and what it does to that input . |