Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each has their own schizoid features , Presley gorging on chocs and biscuits , Haley preferring to lapse into drugged sleep and oblivion , but both paralysed with terror of the world outside and indulging in dreams of the golden days when mummy and daddy were alive and all was right with the world . |
| 2 | In February 1990 , by which time he had moved to become manager of West Ham , Macari became embroiled in financial scandals dating back to his years at Swindon and eventually ended in the newly promoted club being relegated from the First Division to the Third , a draconian punishment which was partially decreased on appeal . |
| 3 | At first the Empire knights looked unstoppable as they drove the Goblin wolf riders from the field , but soon both sides became embroiled in hand-to-hand combat where the Knights ' lances were hindered by the close press of warriors . |
| 4 | ( The Japanese , who once provoked riots , tend to invest in higher-tech operations and are seen as relatively generous . ) |
| 5 | We notice that the words tend to fall into natural sets : |
| 6 | On the one hand , some clients may prefer a structured day with routine care , which everyone receives given at set times , very probably by a succession of nurses . |
| 7 | In a moment are seen the paradisiac regions , as if the curtains of the moments have parted to show the gardens of reality that remain hidden to everyday sight . |
| 8 | Fourteen ( 15% ) of the control group failed to be seen again in a hospital diabetes clinic during the study period compared with only three ( 3.4% ) of the prompted patients who failed to attend for clinical diabetic review ( p=0.013 ; table IV ) . |
| 9 | Collapse breccias , however , are not related to any particular facies and potential reservoirs resulting from this process are most likely to be found around structural highs that became exposed at various times since , the Zechstein . |
| 10 | Its sluices could be used to flood the whole area if it became infested with invading forces . |
| 11 | The Eleven agreed to proceed by qualified majority vote on health and safety , working conditions , information and consultation of workers , equality at work between men and women , and integration of persons excluded from the labour market . |
| 12 | Such activity is difficult ( even repugnant ) , for it involves struggling with mental symbols which enable the thinker to hold some entity — object , property , proposition , world — in mind . |
| 13 | possibly also they might not want to go on national television |
| 14 | I do n't want to go into great detail , but I would be happy to make reference to the document . |
| 15 | The difference between the two types is their chemical make-up and whilst I do n't want to go into lengthy explanations about the proportions of carbon and hydrogen atoms that determine the types of fatty acid it is important to realize that fat is n't just a single compound but comes in many forms . |
| 16 | The more experienced teacher who has used the program several times , on the other hand , will not want to go through lengthy explanations and interrogations by the program amid the pressures of the classroom . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't want to go to rotten old Glasgow . |
| 18 | It was luck that Anne came out on top because she did n't want to go to medical school anyway . |
| 19 | ‘ The businessman does n't want to go to different people to talk about things on the marketing front and someone else on the financial front . ’ |
| 20 | But , she thought , I might be called back and I would not know what to say , I do not want to go amongst mad people , to have them stare at me , to see the unpleasantness of a lot of geriatric cases . |
| 21 | Vice-President and Finance Minister George Saitoti presented a budget on June 15 , 1989 , largely intended to appeal to international donors through its aim to curb public expenditure and to reduce the deficit to 4.2 per cent of GDP in 1989-90 , from 4.5 per cent in 1988-89 . |
| 22 | She then became fascinated by Montessori pre-school education and on returning to England she started a Montessori school in her country home . |
| 23 | For the final two years of his schooling he switched to Kingston College of Further Education , where he became fascinated by British political history ( ‘ I was living in the nineteenth century , ’ he says ) . |
| 24 | Some certificates tend to lapse into impersonal references to ‘ the rectory ’ or ‘ the chaplain' . |
| 25 | Clovers , being of prostrate habit , tend to thrive in close-cropped swards . |
| 26 | Do they want to plan for organic change or reap the fruit of a retail giant that might , no matter what the quality of the architecture , be redundant in another 25 years ? |
| 27 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 28 | You can do too much of this if you are not careful and as I tend to paint with sharp stabby strokes it can be a fault with me to look rather bitty . |
| 29 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |
| 30 | Soviet Union appears to accept reunification of two states is inevitable Kremlin agrees to plan for German confederation . |