Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably he believed that though his wife might join in a little family intrigue against him , she would not want to carry her opposition to the point of war — particularly if that were to involve her in an alliance with her ex-husband . |
| 2 | They held up posters rejecting the idea that their fathers were anything like the Gestapo , and calling for ‘ full social security ’ for Stasi officers expected to lose their posts in the process of trimming the service . |
| 3 | Edward agreed to renounce his claim to the French crown , while John was to abandon his demand for sovereignty over the lands ceded to the English . |
| 4 | Germany agreed to suspend its claims for the payment of debts incurred by the former Soviet Union to former East Germany until the year 2000 , while in exchange Russia abandoned all claims for compensation for Soviet military property and installations in former East Germany . |
| 5 | I think you 're sort of drawing drawing their attention to the public concern over that sort of phrase . |
| 6 | ‘ We will want to monitor her health for the next month or two at least before letting her return to England . ’ |
| 7 | A preliminary hearing in Birmingham yesterday rejected a company claim that the four failed to lodge their case within the required three-month period . |
| 8 | Margaret was encouraged to continue pursuing her enquiries with the solicitor . |
| 9 | Mary Moore , 17 , of Chatham , Kent , was starved of oxygen after doctors failed to diagnose her presence in the womb . |
| 10 | If you would prefer to plan your retirement from the comfort of your home , the Open University 's study pack Planning Retirement covers more than sixty topics including ways to examine your attitudes about time and being retired ( address on page 148 ) . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , the funboards people tend to classify their level by the type of board they sail rather than how well they sail it . |
| 12 | Now longe moot thou saille by the cost , … gentil Maryneer ! |
| 13 | Because he is constantly handling , tasting and eating fungi the spores tend to work their way into the shaman 's skin , penetrating his bloodstream and saturating his body . |
| 14 | Moreover , once imbalances have been created , they tend to work their way through the higher age groups in situ . |
| 15 | ‘ Listen ! ’ said the young man named Lawrence suddenly , and checked to strain his ears for the small , recurrent sound that had reached him . |
| 16 | But Cecil 's string was struggling to find its form at the time and Rainbow Lake could manage no better than a modest sixth to subsequent Derby fourth Cairo Prince . |
| 17 | It plans to continue to increase its investment in the development of application software and associated software tools . |
| 18 | CAPILLARY REFILL TEST : This involves pressing your thumb onto the horse 's gum . |
| 19 | Even that great opponent of the industrial system of the nineteenth century Thomas Carlyle ( 1795–1881 ) failed to relate his criticisms to the Christian doctrine that he had abandoned as a young man . |
| 20 | This project is intended to increase our understanding of the factors which have affected the growth in employment and output of the largest British and foreign-owned professional producer service firms . |
| 21 | For the polytechnics , still struggling to establish their place in the pattern of higher education , the advent of this group of diverse institutions could be seen as ‘ jeopardizing ’ their position , given what the CDP considered an ill-defined interpretation by the DES of ‘ advanced further education ’ . |
| 22 | On the night of Oct. 4-5 small-scale fighting occurred in the capital , Kigali , but the RPF failed to consolidate its position beyond the north-eastern area . |
| 23 | There is no evidence that sceattas circulated widely in the Mercian hinterland and some reason to suggest in the light of a multiplicity of distinctive sceatta coinages in eastern and southern England that Aethelbald , who may have minted in Canterbury , failed to impose his authority over the issue of coins by others , ‘ a critical commentary ’ , perhaps ‘ on what Bede asserts , and on Aethelbald 's own claims ’ . |
| 24 | When Gabriel turned in terror towards Garvey , the playmaster was already struggling to untangle his robe from the top of the ladder and to climb down . |
| 25 | Should you wish to change your holiday arrangements in any way we will endeavour to meet your wishes to the best of our ability . |
| 26 | His difficult relations with Roosevelt only confirmed his realist 's intuition that , beneath its idealistic rhetoric , the United States planned to establish its domination throughout the non-communist world . |
| 27 | To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the 1916 Rising , the National Museum of Ireland has revised its exhibition on the vital period of modern Irish history between 1900 and 1921 and called it ‘ The Road to Independence ’ . |
| 28 | It was published in America in 1974 , translated by Peter Kussi , who has revised his translation for the new edition of 1986 which I am discussing here . |
| 29 | Therefore , anybody interested in the wildlife of the seashore , especially the small fish , crabs , prawns , and other attractive creatures found when the tide is out , is recommended to plan their trips to the coast , taking special account of the following factors . |
| 30 | As Stalin scornfully put it , ‘ the bourgeoisie of Finland … by a strange confluence of circumstances has received its independence from the hands of a socialist Russia ’ . |