Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , most users saw the centres as somewhere to go to get out of the house rather than somewhere to learn . |
| 2 | There were paintings stacked at the side of the room — whether finished or not , she did not know — but the thing that was most touching , the thing that stopped her forward momentum was a chair by the lower window , obviously placed to look out over the valley and the distant forest . |
| 3 | This jockeying for the truth may be fine for doctors engaged in expensive research , but where exactly does it leave the rest of us , constantly struggling to keep up with the latest medical thinking and changing our diets accordingly . |
| 4 | ‘ Now that has been reached , he will only want to get on with the future . ’ |
| 5 | At this juncture I merely want to hold on to the notion that workers are pressed , for a variety of reasons , into a dependent position of an infantile-like nature , which is felt to be unalterable , in many industrial enterprises . |
| 6 | If the patient can not use the lexical procedure to read , say , pint , and so has to fall back upon the non-lexical procedure , a reading error will result : pint will be read with a short i ( as in mint ) . |
| 7 | One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise . |
| 8 | ‘ We very much want to get on with the renovating it . ’ |
| 9 | Kelly had another good match , Strachan was superb , Wallace was my Man of the Match , Deane caused them problems all night , McAllister Speed and batty were good the first half , but Speed especially seemed to drop out of the game in the second half . |
| 10 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 11 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 12 | Its distance is 130 light-years , so that Aldebaran is not a genuine member ; it merely happens to lie in between the Hyades and ourselves . |
| 13 | So that 's how you look after your bandages and all these things that we 're going to show you you 'll find in those little sections in your first aid book so if you get confused or why you 've only got to look up in the book . |
| 14 | But it might as well save its money if it is merely going to flow out of the country into the pockets and profits of foreign firms . |
| 15 | It is vitally important that the engineer should be given as much information as possible and should not be merely invited to turn up at the site and work things out alone . |
| 16 | Do these all have to go up to the tower ? ’ |
| 17 | Executives who commit corporate crime are not coerced into it , they do not necessarily have to go along with the advice or instructions of superiors . |
| 18 | If anyone thinks my language exaggerated or highly coloured — and such there might well be , considering that no one here under pensionable age can have any recollection of a world without rent restriction or subsidised rents — let him recall another upas tree which we only managed to cut down in the nick of time ten years ago . |
| 19 | The kettle sang quite quickly and meanwhile the stove , never entirely allowed to go out in the winter , had coughed into life . |
| 20 | All teams , though , have much ground to make up on the Samoans , who in the course of their four ties at the weekend , scored 23 tries . |
| 21 | They had a restaurant in Paris and suddenly wished to get out into the country . |
| 22 | I said for heaven sake girls , not only trying to cut down on the expensive just because obviously trying to start up on their own . |
| 23 | ‘ Maurice only had to walk out of the Ibrox ground and the abuse he took was amazing . |
| 24 | Some of the RPF 's leaders were uneasy about risking the new movement 's reputation by contesting these elections , but de Gaulle , perhaps trying to make up for the lost opportunities of 1945 and 1946 , was adamant that the Rassemblement should make an all-out effort to capture as much popular support as possible . |
| 25 | More than anything Mungo suddenly wanted to get out of the forest ; to be in his room , or talking to one of the family , or anywhere . |
| 26 | Eighteen months later , in March 1944 , at a second Chinese-sponsored conference at Liuchow , Ho had not only managed to slip back under the nationalist umbrella of the Dong Minh Hoi but , as one of its representatives , was named as a member of a Provisional Government which was expecting to enter Vietnam in the wake of the ‘ liberating ’ Chinese armies . |
| 27 | But if you do feel like it , you only have to call in at the shop . |
| 28 | Before Christmas many of the shops had to open on Sundays for the first time just to try to make up for the terrible year . |
| 29 | Both were successful in their task , Phyllisia no longer has to go back to the West Indies and Celie was reunited with all her family . |
| 30 | Garry would dearly love the club captaincy back but he is realistic enough to know he just has to get on with the game . |