Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has always been interested , and taken part , in physical exercise , and was introduced to Medau through Joan Daniels ' first class in 1966 ; June enjoyed it so much she went on to train and qualified as a Medau teacher in 1974 . |
| 2 | Pauline Kenward , the Society 's Chairman , who comes from Reigate first became interested in Medau in 1968 when she joined Margaret Charlwood 's class ; from there she went on to train and qualified as a teacher in 1974 . |
| 3 | I bent down to try and look in the back of the Golf . |
| 4 | Around 12 million more will tune in to watch or listen to the Boat Race . |
| 5 | She crossed one leg over the other , and he 'd forgotten the incident again until he 'd gone to the car to bring in his brief case and check on the records before they went down to eat and to listen to the Donegal sound of Michael and his boys in the Connemara suite . |
| 6 | ‘ There was another accident a little way down the carriageway and people slowed down to rubberbeck and drove into the back of each other . ’ |
| 7 | In principle , an arts programme geared towards a young adult audience is an excellent idea , but why is it necessary to dress it up to look and sound like a pop video ? |
| 8 | Three girls rushed up to help and call for an ambulance . |
| 9 | Pumping the flaps up to climb and re-trimming with the dinky roof-mounted trim wheels , I reduced power to Tony 's easy noise-abatement power of thirty inches and 2,000 rpm , subjugating the normal 750 feet-per-minute climb at 33 inches and 2,200 rpm in the cause of good neighbourhood relations . |
| 10 | Often the houseparent is a married woman whose husband goes out to work but acts as a father to the children in the evenings and at weekends . |
| 11 | He 's the one who gets the wages for it while I have n't a lira to myself not even to buy a pair of stockings , stuck here in this gloomy hole day after day — and he goes out working , he goes out to work when according to the contract he 's not allowed , I should be allowed but not him . |
| 12 | The mob , now several hundred strong , and going at it hammer and tongs , took time out to boo and jeer at the military presence . |
| 13 | Thinking they were doing the right thing , some schools set out to understand and respond to the particular problems faced by children of West Indian origin — only to discover that their parents , dissatisfied with ‘ low expectations ’ and ‘ lack of discipline ’ , were setting up their own alternative , strict , traditional schools that their children were being sent to on Saturdays . |
| 14 | Far and wide over the common-grazing 's green undulations the encampments spread , colourful tents and pavilions erected for the lords , chiefs and great ones , banners fluttering in the October breeze , cooking-fires smoking , horse-lines being watered , smiths busy shoeing and beating out iron for spear and axe heads , troops and squadrons practising formation riding , infantry deploying to form squares , hedgehogs and wheelings-in-line , trumpets and horns sounding , captains shouting commands — and half the citizenry and dogs of Edinburgh out to watch and add to the din . |
| 15 | While such data should help to concentrate managers 's minds on the need to improve efficiency , the paperwork generated by putting the business out to tender and negotiating on the replies is a significant additional burden . |
| 16 | It is carried out to investigate and report on the responsibility assumed , and to establish that a report on the discharge of the responsibility is a correct or fair one . |
| 17 | Maria saw her mission to go out to act and speak in the desert of human hearts . |
| 18 | She was not about to stop and engage in a scrap on the very doorstep of the bar . |
| 19 | With a terrible dread , she knew at once what was about to happen and ran to the caravan door to prevent her unwelcome callers from entering it . |
| 20 | Some fans have been on to say that calling for the manager 's dismissal is not the answer . |