Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara had told her to go to bed , or rather to go and look at the TV programme she wanted to watch . |
| 2 | For instance , on Big World Café they had a new and young Black male presenter ( Hawkeye Cherry ) teamed up with a more experienced White woman presenter ( Mariella Frostrup ) , so there was a kind of playing-off of inequalities , if you like , of gender against those of age and race , presumably to try and break with the hegemony of young(ish) White males in the area of music programming . |
| 3 | Three artists have come together to paint and teach in an idyllic setting in West Sussex . |
| 4 | For most of those who link computing and boredom , the explanation is that they have to spend many working hours a day behind luminous screens endlessly tapping a plastic typewriter keyboard , after which they are usually fit only to go and goggle at the luminous screen in their living rooms every night . |
| 5 | Should he be forced not only to retire but to leave behind a multi-party state , the example will be widely noted in Africa . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't sit there ’ they chorus at an unfortunate guest foolish enough to try and sit in a chair in the drawing-room which was last used by Queen Victoria . |
| 7 | Whenever they let a letter pass , it is only to encourage and watch for the answer . |
| 8 | The normal price for any given daily supply of fish , which we are now seeking , is the price which will quickly call into the fishing trade capital and labour enough to obtain that supply in a day 's fishing of average good fortune ; the influence which the price of fish will have upon capital and labour available in the fishing trade being governed by rather narrow causes such as these . |
| 9 | ‘ Experts ’ from a variety of European agencies were brought together to discuss and report on the various cross-cultural attitudes to drug-taking among young people . |
| 10 | Investigation will centre on the ability of firms not only to understand and react to the markets in which they operate but also to introduce and develop further new products and processes . |
| 11 | Edward , who died in 1932 aged 64 , preached against the evils of drink in Darlington market place , and Thomas emigrated to Canada to continue the work , only to collapse and die in a pulpit at the end of a sermon . |
| 12 | At the final session the whole group met together to pray and reflect on the week . |
| 13 | He went to her , gently persuaded her to wake sufficiently to undress and get under the covers . |
| 14 | The doctor trekked through the driving snow behind the girl , and then left her downstairs to go and tend to the mother . |
| 15 | We also saw that context can have an effect on the speed of visual word recognition , although experiments by Fischler and Bloom ( 1979 ; 1980 ) suggest that the effect is inhibitory rather than facilitatory , with a word taking longer to identify when preceded by a context which makes it semantically anomalous . |
| 16 | I could never stand and watch so would walk away to wink and flirt with the young novices . |
| 17 | If ever a man and a club seemed , in theory , to be ill-suited , then it is Winterbottom and Harlequins , the club who once caused Dick Best to say when confronted by a bout of absenteeism of Saturday : ‘ All perfectly valid excuses of course ; skiing in Andorra , shopping in Harrods … ‘ |
| 18 | The converse of barriers to entry are barriers to exit : it may cost firms more to quit than to stay in the market . |
| 19 | Since the beginning of the year , I have continued both to meet and to correspond with a wide cross-section of the Northern Ireland business community . |
| 20 | Chris Lawrence , in working with a class of London children , showed them some photographs of ‘ dancers ’ whom the children were later to meet and instruct on the movement of animals . |
| 21 | The organisation is regarded as a ‘ green field ’ , able and willing both to accept and adapt to a completely changed information systems environment . |
| 22 | At the same time , the learner must be encouraged to take every opportunity both to learn and to participate in the teaching of others . |
| 23 | As he pulled on the oars — he could not bear simply to sit and wait for the bell to ring — John was again the boy who had set out to be the man he never became . |
| 24 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 25 | Clearly , compared with our ability to make fine discriminations of perceptual qualities and immediately to recognize and discriminate amidst a profusion of ordinary objects , linguistic description may appear slow and clumsy . |
| 26 | Education as a complex process could do well to recognise and learn from the business community in this whole massively expanding area . |
| 27 | We supposedly get a couple of days to recharge and then turn up refreshed here to shine and glitter on the first night while they 're wrecked . |
| 28 | Is it all right to eat or drink before a session ? |
| 29 | When it got dark he looked for somewhere else to sit and went to the back of the aircraft by way of the communication tunnel , but quickly got bored . |
| 30 | The House of Representatives adjourned to enable Congressmen either to watch or to march in the procession of delegates past the east front of the Capitol . |