Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He agreed to make two of these sails for us to try and we later purchased a third from association funds . |
| 2 | Baker is the man he is trying to displace and he already has 306,209 points . |
| 3 | Baker is the man he is trying to displace and he already has 306,209 points . |
| 4 | I wanted her to come and she never did . |
| 5 | He has often told friends he would like to write and he obviously has the creativity that could be adapted to another form of expression . |
| 6 | My gun jammed and William recognised me and came forward laughing and firing shot after shot at me while I waved and tried to duck and these yellow paint balls went splat , splat , thunking into my hired camouflage trousers and combat jacket and smacking into my visored helmet while I waved at him and tried to get the damn gun to work and he just walked forward slowly shooting me ; bastard had his own paint gun and he 'd probably had it souped up ; knowing William , that was almost inevitable . |
| 7 | Julie was co-director of an information technology firm she helped to establish and which now employs 25 people . |
| 8 | In taking this position , the bishops were also following the lead of Pope John Paul II who , on his visit to Ireland in 1979 had argued : ‘ Divorce , for whatever reason it is introduced , inevitably becomes easier and easier to obtain and it gradually comes to be accepted as a normal part of life ’ ( 1979 ) . |
| 9 | Elsewhere the band choose what can only be called a hardcore bubblegum sound and by the time you get to the final furlong , this regularity means the fizz is starting to fade and you dearly want the guitars to twist and shout and sing . |
| 10 | ‘ I have n't a clue why you behave in the way you appear to behave and I honestly do n't give a damn … ’ |
| 11 | Too often , such provision tended to focus exclusively on slow learners , and took the form of ‘ remedial ’ provision which tended not to remedy and which sometimes created , in the return to the ‘ normal ’ curriculum , extra problems for the child . |
| 12 | The caveman 's body begins to sweat and it thus becomes wet and slippery . |
| 13 | Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it |
| 14 | Cos Rita swears she 's been , I mean I was out with her once and we went in for a coffee and we finished , right , and we 're ready to go and I nearly said to her I hate it after you 've finished and Jackie lights up and then I have to sit there while she has a fag |
| 15 | Ideally , of course , the best support for any kind of camera is to mount it on a tripod , but tripods are awkward things to carry and they also have a dampening effect on spontaneity . |
| 16 | But there was nothing to see and they soon returned to their posts as the bus continued on its way . |
| 17 | His parent did not force him to attend and he now feels this might have brought scorn from other members of the community . |
| 18 | ‘ All the facts seemed to fit and he even looks like Ben . |
| 19 | Phillips straight to Hill and that 's a long ball aimed at Ormanroyd Cooper across to cover and you just saw him grimace a little bit again there as he charged in on Ormanroyd . |
| 20 | So my the , in my mind the best way forward is for this council to promote the right to buy and I fully support this motion and I would urge members of this council to ignore the report that comes back from the housing committee . |
| 21 | But the tumour continued to grow and she finally opted for surgery and chemotherapy . |
| 22 | ‘ It was a game no one wanted to play and I now have the added problem of a key defender , Lee Howarth , collecting a bad knee injury . ’ |
| 23 | I felt relieved in the same huge way as when you 've been desperate to pee and you finally get to a loo … |
| 24 | The Eezit spray was easiest to use and it also neutralised nasty smells . |
| 25 | What matters is that they find the system simple to use and it certainly simplifies the practitioner 's lot . |
| 26 | He kills it eventually , he shoots it with this like hypodermic pistol to try to put it to sleep and it just explodes ! |
| 27 | ‘ As I passed the boy I saw in the mirror the car had pulled out sharply to overtake and I just heard the bang . |
| 28 | It 's just a bunch of tunes I wanted to record and I just felt it was time to get an album out again . |
| 29 | Well everyone has , everyone is entitled to vote and he also thinks that if the time is right when unmarried women were property and he thought it would n't be long before married women to hold property too , so he was also he wanted to reform the Married Women 's Property Act . |
| 30 | They , they know what they have to do to protect that stock , to protect their life 's interests and they , and they know they do n't need to be told really by any officer here who are not in that not , not in that game , what they have to do that 's what they 're asking us to do and they certainly asked us to do that on the erm , on the tour of county farms that we had only , only a few weeks ago . |