Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rather tacky set , the lucklustre performances , the script from David Straun and Heather Williams that lurches from trite audience participation to over-the-head jokes ( would any primary-school child get the one about water privatisation ? ) , all did n't seem to matter as the company of four scampered around with their well-intentioned tale of how the white man destroyed the American Indians . |
| 2 | As much as he complains about having to frolic through the clichés of his life , he is quite happy to encourage it . |
| 3 | Of course some terms may be difficult to categorize as stop or non-stop . |
| 4 | The Michelin guide to Perigord will reveal a castle either preserved or in ruins at each of these places , though one would need to go off the map to Mareuil-sur-Belle , as well as Vieux-Mareuil , to identify all the three donjons which Pound speaks of in that vicinity . |
| 5 | After I introduced the hemp earlier the fish seemed to go off the feed so I only introduced it for four or five casts . |
| 6 | After David had been there a couple of weeks , I used to go off doing odd bits of work in London , working as a journalist , although I was n't very keen on that side of my life at the time — there were other things that interested me more . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | I was talking to this other lad across the road — we were due to go off duty at two and we were just hanging about before making our way down to the station — there was no relief for us on that shift . |
| 9 | Quite often when a pair have shown all the signs of wanting to breed in the community aquarium and they are then moved into a breeding tank , they suddenly seem to go off the idea , Their new home is strange to them , and the male will want to establish his territory , move the decor , and generally prepare the tank to his satisfaction . |
| 10 | This started the defendant to go off the rails . ’ |
| 11 | BARNSLEY trainer Steve Norton ca n't wait to go off talent-hunting to America again in a fortnight 's time . |
| 12 | Also , it could give my guests time to go off the whole idea . |
| 13 | Before starting the long retreat we waited till dark for the sun to go off the slopes , for the stones and avalanche slopes to re-freeze , and possibly because the sight was too horrible to contemplate . |
| 14 | ‘ So , when the bombs start to go off the Western press will put it down to hard-liner elements still yearning for the days before Gorbachev arrived . |
| 15 | Escorts would require more overlap between shifts to allow staff to go off the ward . |
| 16 | We 're all going to go off one day and there 's nothing better than planning for it . |
| 17 | But it 's also normal to go off the whole idea . |
| 18 | " Always glad to see you , of course , though I must say that I 'd hoped to go off duty without any more trouble . |
| 19 | Oh , I 'm going to go off my head . |
| 20 | I thought I used to I used to say to her sometimes I 'll have to go off story . |
| 21 | John was confident enough then to leave Flynn to it and to go off himself to look at the proposed routes of the Waterford & limerick and the Waterford & kilkenny lines , both of which had been authorized by Parliament last year but neither of which had yet gone to tender . |
| 22 | The heat was beginning to go off the streets and the shadows were creeping out from the walls . |
| 23 | I expect he 's had to go off the road . |
| 24 | I do n't like to go off Jean . |
| 25 | I , I , I , I should say they need to go off no they need , they need to go off , off , off team |
| 26 | I , I , I , I should say they need to go off no they need , they need to go off , off , off team |
| 27 | Quite as remarkable as the original display of ill temper was the graciousness which prompted him to apologize for it . |
| 28 | I am standing on platform eleven at London 's Liverpool Street station , listening to a British Rail Tannoy announcement , delivered as dispassionately and routinely as an abattoir attendant 's delivering a bolt through the skull of yet another helpless , terrified , steer : ‘ British Rail would like to apologize for the late running of the six-thirty to Lowestoft . |
| 29 | We should not have to apologize for a vow of celibacy . |
| 30 | He delivered a strong attack on Paisley and sent his Minister for Home Affairs to the General Assembly to apologize for the demonstration and to promise that ‘ the Government will take all possible steps to put a recurrence of such indignities to the Head of this great church and his distinguished guests ’ . |