Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " 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 | Thus in Ibrams ( 1982 ) there had been considerable ill-treatment and violence by the deceased towards D and his girlfriend , and this led them eventually to plan and carry out a night-time raid on the deceased 's flat , during which they attacked and killed him . |
| 3 | Quite apart from Rosa , it is necessary for me to have somewhere to go and think without interruption . |
| 4 | Henry , Lucy Lucy , oh she 's such a rat bag , hang on to go and get her over here . |
| 5 | Throughout his life , Barbarossa strove vigorously to restore and strengthen the Holy Roman Empire . |
| 6 | So they used their superior laser beams mostly to sting and scorch and put surplus scumniks and techs to flight . |
| 7 | In fact what the members of the Committee wished to do was to alter the law , not expressly to encourage or legalise such practices , but to remove them , like adultery and other sins , from the realm of the law . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It did n't show too badly when he finished the race with several layers of clothing on to try and retain some body heat in the cold driving rain . |
| 12 | Er we instigated that procedure and then we went on to try and extend the facilities for shop stewards to be able to take care of the er problems arising out of the incentive scheme . |
| 13 | The wind had freshened by this time and was causing some choppy waves , so we pressed on to try and finish the circuit planned before counting became impossible . |
| 14 | you put your glasses on to try and see , and you ca n't pluck the eyebrows because the glasses are in the way so we do quite a lot of eyebrow trimming , erm at salon . |
| 15 | It was somewhere to hide and sob into your plastic glass of flat lager while all around , pondlife ran riot . |
| 16 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 17 | So I 'd like two volunteers later on to come and have their faces cleansed , toned , and moisturized . |
| 18 | The aim of the pub is to give the residents of the homes and the villagers of Tarrington and surrounding hamlets somewhere to meet and enjoy themselves . |
| 19 | The report by Lord Justice Bingham on the collapse in July 1991 of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) [ see p. 38355 ] was published on Oct. 22 , strongly criticizing the Bank of England for failing properly to supervise and regulate BCCI , but stating that UK Treasury officials and ministers for their part were not open to criticism . |
| 20 | All the indications are that man 's efforts successfully to modify and refine the product of the evolutionary process by the introduction of civilisation , have been almost destroyed by the tangled mass of religious absurdity and rubbish which he has allowed to enter into it , and reduce it to but a tragic travesty of what it should be . |
| 21 | The press has mushroomed , stalls are packed with newspapers and Romania has become a mecca for journalists from the West eager not only to report but instruct the new media , still largely partisan and biased , in western techniques and styles . |
| 22 | However , Rentokil were called back in to go and re-clean the work undertaken by their competitors ! |
| 23 | He ca n't do very much short-term about the federal deficit , although he 's sharp enough to see that borrowing short-term cuts interest costs . |
| 24 | Prior Robert was at the foot of the steps in a moment , tall enough to see and read without mounting . |
| 25 | Sponsorship should of course be the icing on the cake , there should be enough in , in competition in regattas and themselves but people are interested enough to go and to support and that sponsorship actually allows you to do things that you would n't have been able to do otherwise . |
| 26 | Expectations that holiday makers will now feel secure enough to go and book a week in the sun put a shine on Airtours , up 33 at 274p . |
| 27 | But brave enough to go and fight fires and but he would n't stop in with himself . |
| 28 | Three artists have come together to paint and teach in an idyllic setting in West Sussex . |
| 29 | We are quick enough to admonish and complain and rebuke , but all too seldom do we actually give praise when either an outstanding achievement has been made , or even more rarely , when an outstanding effort has been made but has not succeeded . |
| 30 | What is needed is an organisation which is strong enough to combat and overthrow the capitalist state . |