Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gave excitement , the opportunity to go off duty early or at least to return to the warmth and relative conviviality of the police station , as well as prestige … |
| 2 | ( v ) Most libels of any gravity directed at the conduct of a local authority would sufficiently identify the councillors or officers concerned in or responsible for that conduct so as to enable individual councillors or officers to sue for libel just as , in this case , Mr. Bookbinder has brought proceedings in respect of the libels complained of by the council . |
| 3 | I see the force of the point that councillors should be trusted to use the right to sue for libel only in circumstances where it is necessary in the public interest . |
| 4 | If by established principles of English law it is clear that Derbyshire County Council has the right to sue for libel then this court must say so and let the action proceed . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll just have to wait for Dad then , wo n't I ? ’ |
| 6 | I had to mourn for Sesostris so I went back to his house . ’ |
| 7 | I go to a gym regularly and I use to swim for Liverpool so swimming still keeps me fit . |
| 8 | erm well would , w w would anybody want to advocate that , yes , the option was to go for collectivization fairly quickly ? |
| 9 | I think I 'll have to go for Sheridan too — he was my kind of player , comfortable on the ball , good passer , and took excellent free kicks too . |
| 10 | The emphasis of Paul is clear , we are to go for quality both in our performance and in the way we conduct ourselves in the workplace . |
| 11 | Centuries after their creation , we intervene to limit the deterioration of frescoes , painted panels , canvases or marbles , and to preserve for posterity not just an empty shell but the enduring substance of a work of art . |
| 12 | IDENTIFICATION Some people who have been rudely awakened to awareness of difference , who have never learnt to value the otherness of the other or feel safe with it , may need to search for love only with their mirror image . |
| 13 | This , he thought , was a very disturbing reflection on modern life , and one which led some religious fundamentalists to search for satanism everywhere . |
| 14 | That 's it like a st stage is here , I mean it 's very awkward to caterer for people down here and for the stages on the same menu . |
| 15 | ‘ You must be hungry if you 're promising to sit through Shakespeare afterwards ! ’ |
| 16 | Robin-Anne , who had been looking very apprehensive , seemed to go aboard Wavebreaker rather unwillingly . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's had to go through Mordecai precisely because he is a Copt . |
| 18 | Lasting impressions so far : the sun ( miraculously ) shining on the slopes of Dalwhinnie , far in the north , on the first leg of the journey ; stumbling across Drew from the World Cup holiday in a motorway café somewhere in England in the middle of the night ; breakfast and mineral water with Claire ( oh , it was good to see her ) in an Italian cafe near London Victoria ; people throwing up all over the joint on the Seacat crossing to Boulogne ( and me staggering about , legs way out of control , on the deck , getting soaked by the spray , saltwater taste in the mouth , and a rainbow arcing on top of the water behind the catamaran ) ; complaining English and American tourist ( ‘ It 's ridiculous that we have to go through customs — why do we have to go through customs anyway ? … ) ; terrible fatigue on the train to Paris , and temperamental French men shouting and swearing at each other in the aisle ; relief at finding Angela 's flat in Paris ; difficult negotiation of the very narrow stairwell , finally finding her way at the top on the 6th floor ; food , and wine , and a shower , and a bed-settee for the night ; Japanese tourists at Notre Dame , and a man announcing his state of poverty and homelessness on the Métro — ‘ ‘ . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've got to perform for Sabraxis tomorrow , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Helen 's quiet , Jenny 's quiet ooh I tell you what , I 'm beginning to fall for Jenny actually I have to admit . |
| 21 | Perhaps they were going to go after Hasan now . |
| 22 | This involved PPA volunteers and staff in the tripartite consultations at county level , the preparation of budget submissions , agonising waits while plans were considered , elation when funding was agreed , disappointment when refused , months of hard work to set up a scheme or , when necessary , to re-draft the plan to try for funding again . |
| 23 | Even taking an ethologist 's view that young men are fighting animals who need to work off aggression harmlessly in play — a sweeping and contentious assumption — we st ill have to account for the specific form of football hooliganism since the 1960s . |
| 24 | The final round on the Grand Union Canal at Broadmead Bridge was fished by 26 competiors who had to smash through ice up to six inches thick . |
| 25 | It was almost three o'clock when Christina left Pauline after agreeing to meet for lunch once a week . |
| 26 | He stayed awake and after midnight he went to the room which Kate 's mother had set aside for his father to write about birds in . |
| 27 | I do n't I mean you 're not going to write about oxen very often are you ? |
| 28 | He might visit from time to time should a story miserable enough to write about crop up , but there was no way he was going to edit the paper from there . |
| 29 | Heavily influenced by reading H. G. Wells and Thomas Henry Huxley , he resolved to write about science rather than to practise it . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't give a damn for what is fashionable , ’ he said , ‘ and I do n't want to write about characters just because they 're fashionable types . |