Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [coord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minutes later we are heading for a small island group north of Vengsøya , to round that and head on for the next . |
| 2 | Greg had rung Helen from London to tell her when he would be arriving in Manchester , and she had promised to work late and go out with him for a meal . |
| 3 | Nor had they gone far before she was forced to stand still and stare up at tall tree-ferns , their gracefully curving fronds sheltering the path like a row of lofty umbrellas . |
| 4 | A director would instruct dealers to tell their clients that an announcement was pending " in order to persuade them to buy more or to hold on to stock they wished to sell . |
| 5 | Bates , however , decided yesterday to play fair and own up about his mistress . |
| 6 | Having dropped out of school in Sweden and returned from Africa to do little but hang out in New York , she leapt at their invitation to move to London and join the group in 1980 . |
| 7 | The woman turned round and saw that the red crow was perched on the balustrade , flapping its wings like a man trying to keep warm and looking in at them , its head cocked to one side . |
| 8 | And , try to keep warm and keep out of this wind . |
| 9 | He loved to lie next to her and kiss it and then to stretch flat and look up at her hips . |
| 10 | ‘ I have decided to get even fitter , to practise more and to cut down on the weight . |
| 11 | This is why , coming home with the supermarket bags , we get barked at by second-assistant-directors and told to keep quiet and keep out of sight . |
| 12 | After a time , all knew that the concourse was not going to turn sour or break up in a fight . |
| 13 | The reduction in the numbers visiting the gardens has allowed the grass to remain green and cut down on the amount of litter dropped and graffiti scribbled . |
| 14 | We need to condemn that and get on with what the public desperately wants to see … action to try to respond to what they see around them on the ground , ’ he said on Radio 4 's The World This Weekend . |
| 15 | Driving to Glasgow I wondered how easy it was to get lost and end up in Wales or Norfolk or somewhere , but once it began , it was so exciting and I saw one could n't get lost , not even if one tried . |
| 16 | Both were from the same village as Mr Shahiduddin Postman ; both had managed to get educated and to break out of the village on to the lower rungs of academia . |
| 17 | ‘ Maybe it is time for me to get angry and fight back at those who are fighting me , ’ she said . |
| 18 | How could anyone know that Wetherby was going to get hungry and go down to the kitchen for some cheese ? |
| 19 | Visits to hotels or theatres , going on holiday or to restaurants are all difficult things to do on one 's own , and if they are undertaken , people may have to pay more or end up in a corner , marginalized and away from the main clientèle . |
| 20 | This presented a problem for Zeinab , who was quite definitely a woman but did n't like to sit invisible and fenced off from her friends . |
| 21 | Ireland 's Darren Clarke , Sweden 's Robert Karlsson and the veteran Argentine Vicente Fernandez all shot 67 , while Gilford birdied the last two holes to return 70 and hang on to second place — only two strokes behind his England Dunhill colleague . |
| 22 | In some cultures the mourning period is very clearly established with a beginning phase where the bereaved will be looked after by their families ; and there is an equally important ending phase when the person is expected to stop grieving and get on with living . |
| 23 | Up until April , you have Mars giving you the incentive to earn more and to stand up for yourself whenever the threat of a monetary show-down appears over the horizon . |
| 24 | Eden himself became more emotional , first as he waited for Churchill to stop teasing and bow out of Number 10 Downing Street , and later as his own premiership became increasingly plagued with problems at home and abroad . |
| 25 | However , there are those who need to learn to become assertive and come out of themselves , or to overcome their fears . |