Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when the intrepid explorers climbed into their rowing boats to come ashore that they really clocked what was going on . |
| 2 | A sound caused her to jump slightly and she half turned to see a figure silhouetted in the doorway . |
| 3 | I mean having to come upstairs before you even get into the house is n't very good either , cos I mean with kids you 've got to carry the pushchairs up and everything and carry kids up and carry all your shopping up , it 's not , it 's not very practical having them upstairs . |
| 4 | We do try not to use er the disabled sticker if it 's at all possible , because we actually want to behave just as anyone else behaves , in a , just an ordinary member of the community , and so do the children . |
| 5 | Hong Kong and Bangkok tend to be lumped together in holiday brochures under the same Far East tag , and indeed , it makes sense to visit both if you just happen to find yourself in that part of the world . |
| 6 | This is a splendid incentive for people to listen hard since they never know when they might be called upon to paraphrase what they have heard . |
| 7 | And that led me the think of phetam , and to wonder again if it really did confer super-powers . |
| 8 | But they promise solemnly to retire forever if it ever happens , so you can enjoy their sharp and amusing little ditties in the secure knowledge that you 're not creating a Barron Knights for the '90s . |
| 9 | Thankfully , I decided to go home before I really cracked up . |
| 10 | Scheherezade begins the long series of tales that constitute The Arabian Nights , so successfully stimulating the King 's curiosity to hear more that he constantly defers the order for her execution . |
| 11 | And I I had to walk past cos everyone else moved away . |
| 12 | Similarly , in Leechian terms , he upholds the Politeness Principle when he interrupts Hollar again ( p. 54 ) because he does so to affirm enthusiastically that he too remembers Peter Volansky , thus obeying Leech 's maxim of agreement , " maximise agreement between self and others " ( Leech 1983 : 132 ) . |
| 13 | My instinct is to believe that those who defend the autonomy of their particular " level " are right to do so but I also think that our present state of knowledge is insufficient to permit us to understand satisfactorily how this level autonomy comes about . |
| 14 | It 's similarly with similar to the situation for training while the activist would like to get straight into a role of play , the reflector wants to stand back think about it , think about how they 're going to , what they 're going to do etcetera before they actually participate or get involved . |
| 15 | He had the good grace to apologise afterwards and I also expressed my gratitude that I did not have to wait an hour or so until the training was finished before I could obtain his team and get busy . |
| 16 | Afterwards Jacques Poos , the Luxembourg Foreign Minister , declared that President Gorbachev said that " he would continue on the path to reform even if he sometimes had to take a detour " . |
| 17 | But while the company 's management would not deny an element of luck , they would also point to a good deal of contingency planning that enabled them to react faster than anyone else to ILG 's collapse . |
| 18 | ‘ We used to holiday here and we always promised ourselves we 'd live here one day . ’ |
| 19 | They were able to respond swiftly because they already have a secret ballot strike mandate over an ongoing pay dispute . |
| 20 | But none of the larger firms has done so yet , so the obvious conclusion to be drawn is that either they prefer to live dangerously or they still do n't believe that anyone would actually go after them for their personal assets . |
| 21 | We shall see more formally why this is the case when we discuss bonds in Chapter 6 , but it is a relationship which is easy to grasp intuitively if we just consider the position of a holder of existing bills . |
| 22 | So the funeral went on and the person was lowered into the grave that had been dug and the grave digger was asked to stay behind and they quickly got it put where it should be . |
| 23 | I was not keen to go yet because I still had a vivid memory of that hand . |
| 24 | Human thinking and language would dissolve into a topsy-turvy jumble of uncertainty if we were to use the word know as if it were interchangeable with words like guess or dream , or if we were to say right when we really meant wrong . |
| 25 | She did n't think it was going to take long before he somehow caused trouble for her . |
| 26 | I have to say here that I honestly do not know whether such experiences are examples of genuine recall or figments of the dreamer 's imagination . |
| 27 | Ever the pragmatist , he decided to return there when he recently turned 30 . |
| 28 | It is only by refusing to move onwards that we truly die . |
| 29 | But I know it is sad that all our clubs are out of Europe now and it will probably be a long time before we can hope to dominate abroad as we once did . |