Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthea was told to interview someone while bouncing up and down on a trampoline . |
| 2 | He likes to know everything that goes on . |
| 3 | You take rather a long time sometimes to find something that fits in but you do in the end . ’ |
| 4 | Most sailing schools do run to these standards and it is quite rate to find one that does n't . |
| 5 | Charlie , who turned out to be a regular size , was dealt with fairly quickly , but it took almost an hour to find anything that did n't make Tommy look as if he was entering a sack race . |
| 6 | If the chick is going to do this to remember everything that goes on during its lifetime , how will it find enough room in its little brain for all that synaptic machinery ? |
| 7 | But this was dreadful , threatening to cover everything and to get inside it too . |
| 8 | You need to do nothing except stand there and sing your numbers . |
| 9 | When a heatwave occurs — unless we are fortunate enough to be able to do nothing but laze around — many people become increasingly bad-tempered . |
| 10 | Estimate , instead , the sheer physical task that is being contemplated : to build a ‘ Stansted at Stanley ’ would be to do something that has never been done before in the whole of history . |
| 11 | Its actions belied Bush 's declaration on Nov. 15 that he preferred to hold this course than to do something that did not work . |
| 12 | Making that transition is n't so bad , unless I want to do something that relies heavily on feedback or ambience . |
| 13 | Therefore we er we needed to do something that stands out from the crowd if you like to bring this to people 's attention . |
| 14 | The careful diplomacy with which this point has been made was undermined when the New York Times reported an off-the-record comment at the Brussels meeting suggesting that Mr Clinton ‘ feels the compulsion to do something but does not actually want to get involved . ’ |
| 15 | They took up opposite sides of the room , approaching the concealing curtain with extreme caution , the stubby barrels of the Uzi submachine gun ready to blast anything that leapt forward . |
| 16 | By the time I find a room it 's too late to do anything except go out on to the balcony and gaze down at the still-warm street , the signs . |
| 17 | If the baby needs to go on taking medicines or vitamins , ask the doctor to prescribe something that does not contain any colouring or other unnecessary ingredients . |
| 18 | I 'm just going to read one that 's already been published and it does n't matter if I read it again . |
| 19 | Of the vast multitude of varieties that are available , old and new , and despite the astonishing achievements of the modern breeders and growers , not many varieties match up to all or even most of the desirable specifications , and it is difficult , nay , impossible to name one that does not have some fault somewhere . |
| 20 | I will not try to describe everything that went on . |
| 21 | Still , there 's nothing secretive or lacking in discussion on the new laws in operation — and how refreshing to mention something that does not invoke the subject of money . |
| 22 | They wanted to kill one person in the Abbey to shock everybody but do as little more damage as possible . ’ |
| 23 | She seemed about to add something but did not . |
| 24 | Hearing how the B-17F 's weak forward armament failed to deter the enemy , Tommie conjectured that a 20mm cannon would have more dissuasive charm — but how to get one and try out his theory ? |
| 25 | What was more , the Substitute gave the impression that he could cope with any third party interference , at any level , with nothing more than the pursed lips and flicker of amusement with which he seemed to regard everything that went on around him . |
| 26 | No , no , she 's got to have something that goes on here back . |
| 27 | to have something that indicates how the youngster gets on with others , I 'm sure that 's one of the general skills and ability . |
| 28 | Fergus sprawled in the cafeteria banquette and said the challenge was to deconstruct something that had apparently already deconstructed itself , since the book was about a painting that turned out to be nothing but a chaotic mass of brush-strokes . |
| 29 | Grudgers came to dominate the population because they passed on more genes to future generations than either Suckers ( who helped others indiscriminately , and were exploited ) or Cheats ( who tried ruthlessly to exploit everybody and ended up doing each other down ) . |
| 30 | But the further they go , the easier it will become to produce something that winds up pleasing no one in particular . |