Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sinked did n't it , right to the bottom , so that needs to go in there , so make some plasticine in there . |
| 2 | Sadleir felt that he had done enough and wished to return to the coast . |
| 3 | Cornelius smiled warmly and rose to go with God 's grace . |
| 4 | Alison Radevsky of the Guide Dogs For The Blind Association , said : ‘ All guide dogs are groomed daily and trained to sit at their owners ’ feet , even in a small car . ’ |
| 5 | Luke pushed back his chair impatiently and went to stand at the window , looking down , his back towards her . |
| 6 | As you say , if somebody 's been in there from bloody five o'clock and wants to stay till eleven |
| 7 | Later they gave it up entirely and went to live in their home in Ascot . |
| 8 | Provide help for families to stay together and to continue to care for their children at home . |
| 9 | Sewing machines were oiled , cottons , notions and so on gathered together and packed to take with us . |
| 10 | Add vegetables to oil mixture , toss together and leave to stand for 15 minutes . |
| 11 | Suddenly embarrassed , she gathered her things together and started to get to her feet . |
| 12 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 13 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 14 | Miliutin pointed out that if 125,000 men were enlisted annually but required to serve for no more than seven or eight years , in seven years the country would possess a trained reserve of 750,000 men . |
| 15 | Mr Pollards father david also gave evidence , saying in a statement how Gary Burn had been sobbing hystericaly when tring to explain to him what had happened . |
| 16 | If the situation lasts for a long time with no sign of improvement , you should discuss the future very carefully with the doctor or hospital specialist , rather than trying to cope in a hopeless situation which can not resolve itself . |
| 17 | The text for the first term 's production will usually be selected for the purpose of getting a new group to work together rather than trying to go for detailed individual performances . |
| 18 | Rather than trying to start in the depths of prehistory , when local material may be scarce , or difficult to interpret , a better approach may well be to begin in the present and work backwards . |
| 19 | This month the clergy forced the hierarchy to issue a letter requesting ethnic Hungarians to stay in Transylvania and work for change rather than seeking to flee to Hungary . |
| 20 | So readers are helped to appreciate the beauty of Haiti 's traditions and to understand its problems , rather than invited to stare in horrified fascination at ‘ exotic ’ or ‘ primitive ’ rites . |
| 21 | For example , it must learn to sit , rather than straining to rush across a road . |
| 22 | Rather than continuing to attempt to police the whole world , they looked for a tighter unity of the formal Empire . |
| 23 | There are growing signs of a desire to abandon the descriptive approach to this material and to examine unknown fields rather than continuing to prove by alternative means what is already known . |
| 24 | This time she contacted me again after just a week to say that , for the first time , she had been able to buy clothes for her children in a certain famous store rather than having to rely on ordering from a mail order firm . |
| 25 | An unemployed lift engineer 's mate , Darren Webb , 25 , of Colchester , also appreciated the opportunity to talk to people about the various training and job schemes available rather than having to rely on leaflets . |
| 26 | rather than having to move out the way |
| 27 | Novell Inc has upgraded NetWare Lite for MS-DOS and Windows 1.1 by improving Windows support : users can now run NetWare Lite and Windows concurrently , and can manage the network from within Windows , rather than having to exit to MS-DOS for their network management . |
| 28 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 29 | You can then concentrate much more effectively on dealing with the wound , rather than having to battle with your dog in order to help it . |
| 30 | Rather than having to type in the name of a program or press certain letters or numbers to select a function the user simply ‘ points ’ to what is required and presses a button . |