Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 Also , remote users can dial in over a modem and access a network 's drives — this is really useful if you have people on the road who need access to office files .
2 And then they would spring down with a howl and rush to embrace her .
3 Assembling in front of the Eiffel Tower , the teams drove through France and sailed the Med safely enough before rumbling south from Algiers with back-up that did not include much besides a wing and a prayer .
4 Sometimes his eyes would glaze over for a second or two as if he were out of their world altogether .
5 It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too .
6 ‘ We 'll know more after a scan and a bone-marrow expiration ! ’
7 Yeah , I 'd probably fuck off for a year and do my own thing and come back and maybe take take , maybe start my own business .
8 Sweden could still claim top place in Group Four , which would diminish England 's hopes of being seeded in Italy next summer , but the Swedes must win here in a fortnight and on yesterday 's evidence that could be difficult .
9 My parents are going to France at Christmas and erm I do n't wan na go with them really and nor does Digby so he , Digby 's gon na come and stay just for a bit and my house it has to be empty and Foxy 's coming round to stay .
10 Of course , you ca n't think exactly like a keyboard or a sax player would when you 're playing the guitar — the instrument will always shape the way you think to some extent .
11 Sometimes she would stay away for a day or two .
12 ‘ Perhaps she 'd do better with a cat or a dog . ’
13 Alright all I all I 'd ask is that would you erm just mention to him what I 've said and that if he believes after discussion with you that there are some pallets which are not in a fit state to send out , and they are gon na tip over on a lorry and dislodge , then they are rejected and Pete Pete knows about it and they are they are actually isolated and rewrapped .
14 There was a girl at work who said she loved the rain — she would dress up in a mac and goloshes and tramp around in the rain just for pleasure .
15 The danger of allowing opting out would be that the NHS would finish up as a rump and would provide very much a second class service .
16 But give him his due , he does not give up for a scratch or two , and not even a dagger could hold him off for ever . ’
17 I could turn convict , he thought , and live in prison and it would n't matter then about a job or all the things ahead that looks so unpromising .
18 So er to get to your question erm I 've sort of not been doing anything erm I was hoping that I would be sort of fully fit round about now and then if I saw something on teletext er that was good I 'd just buzz off for a week or so .
19 Shelley reflected that they must look less like a doctor and a nurse discussing their clinic rota , and a lot more like a couple in love murmuring sweet nothings .
20 It should be remembered by the advisers that , following completion , the management and the investors will work together as a team and it is not in the investors ' interests to antagonise or demoralise their management team at the outset .
21 Firstly , individuals do not all occur randomly in a forest and often there is much clumping as we have already discussed .
22 And there are records of this everywhere are n't there you know sort of and and probably you know the the management thought er I do n't know if they thought this far really or we 'll we 'll show them that they ca n't that they ca n't stick together as a union and why should all the quarries stick together .
23 He watched the cashier ring through for a clearance and had been surprised when it was accepted .
24 Is the wiring in good condition ? — it should run directly into a switch and fuse ( no plugs and sockets ! ) .
25 Then Tom , who worked for the Bryant and May match firm , will splash out on a greenhouse and a garden shed for himself .
26 As she worked the crochet table-mats her mother had ordered , the intricate sequence of stitches could blot out for a moment or two the scenes that daily since that Easter feast she had staged between herself and Tommaso Talvi .
27 Previously , he says , the intended individual could claim neither for a legacy nor a trust .
28 This may not seem important , but small irritations can build up in a Home and become real barriers to good communication .
29 But experience can often make up for a yard or two of pace .
30 His objective was to demonstrate what had already been proved in the U.S.A. with the PCC car , that a really modern tram could compete successfully with a bus and other modes of transport .
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