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

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1 Once Chapman had gone there was no one with his dynamism and far-sightedness to carry on where he left off .
2 They wo n't be able to go on if we do n't rest . "
3 ‘ Yes , such a day , and to stroll along as I did so many times in the old days .
4 She was going to offer him an armchair to sit in but he had already decided to settle at the pinewood table .
5 Can I just say colleagues before you , you second the motion , there is this hubbub again that 's growing , I mean it seems to go down and I do n't know perhaps it 's like the tide but can we try and keep it a bit lower , especially when colleagues are trying to make a speech from the rostrum .
6 The intelligence and sensitivity by which some people draw rich implications from quite narrow experience would have nothing to work on if they had not plunged deep into that experience .
7 So that created a problem and we then found that a number of people were leaving Brothers to seek their fortunes elsewhere because the work that they liked to work on and you know traditionally they 'd been on it for years , er was no longer there and er subsequently there was a slip in the numbers employed .
8 Not the place to leap on if you 've never heard a single GOR song , but the dedicated and the brave newcomer will find much on ‘ Too Much Fun ’ to fall in love with .
9 Yeah there 's there 's there 's a whole lot of others that were in me head that I I meant to write down before you came in .
10 I have a lot of ideas to work through before I come out predicting the future . ’
11 It was just a reflex — I knew it had to come off and I did n't want them all fussing about it .
12 The other would allow the smart to inherit the Earth ( plus a legacy from their wealthy parents ) and console us with the exhortation to work harder if we want more , which goes down like a glass of sand in the unemployment deserts .
13 The exercises of relaxation then are gradually causing more and more muscles to act as dead weight , sagging down , hanging on the skeleton causing the weight and heaviness of the body to be seeming to increase gradually as we become increasingly relaxed .
14 Nor with the grumbling of people who did n't want to stand up when they 'd just sat down .
15 Looking down at their still and silent master , the two dogs began to slink nearer until they lay down beside him , noses resting on his body .
16 He 's to come up after we goes down — so 's there 'll be no bumping into each other on them there stairs .
17 I used to have a load of homework to take home with me because I had to catch up but I did n't used to mind that .
18 I 'll have to catch up when I get back .
19 Rosalind would have to know now that she had n't posted the letter !
20 He reckoned the machine had swallowed his card , cos , he said , he 'd got his money and then waited for it to come out but it had n't appeared .
21 ‘ It takes you two days and half of two nights to find out that you do n't know ? ’
22 I do n't know , I want to find out if I do really believe what I say I do and if I want the kind of life I say I do , and the only way to do that seems to be to get right away and try a straight career for a bit , just to see how I react . ’
23 I rang the house to find out if you left all right this morning and Curtis said you were still there .
24 He added after the 7-6 6-4 4-6 6-4 shocker : ‘ I thought I had a chance to come back but it ended so fast .
25 The only ones I 'll let go are Carly and Bill , they 've got ta catch a plane , er train , and Justin 's got to come back before he heads back to the hotel .
26 They stared at the floor for a few seconds then said ‘ You 'll have to come back because we did n't have the right tools . ’ ’
27 He was cleared by the doctor to come back because he had basically renal failure .
28 ‘ All the Synergy ideas we 've tried to work out as we went along — ‘ interactive ’ is n't the right word , but that element is important to us .
29 Problems are challenges to work around and he does n't accept the idea that you can not learn something .
30 ( We only asked them to comment here if it did not meet expectations — either they all had low expectations or the conference was a high standard . )
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