Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [coord] [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The journalists gathered in knots to compare notes and decide on the best angle on the story . |
| 2 | Although publicly scathing about the student left and the anti-Vietnam movement , Healy none the less cultivated a discussion circle of London writers , actors and television producers , it is said with some charm and intellectual force , which was to presage his fixation with Equity , the actors ' Union which increasingly provided personnel and finance for the ERP . |
| 3 | Many so-called estate agents merely place advertisements and wait for the telephone to ring , which is not a successful method , particularly in a poor market like this . ’ |
| 4 | If they are preoccupied with the wound , they may develop ulcer dressing rituals and interfere with the prescribed treatment . |
| 5 | The society also placed advertisements asking for applications to draw on its funds for the purpose of release from debtors ' prisons , and backed this up by sending two members of the committee on a tour of London 's gaols to receive applications and arrange for the release of ‘ the most distressed objects , preferring the most useful Artists and Manufacturers , and those who have the largest families . ’ |
| 6 | Most of the children had ordinary books and pencils — all had to stand up to answer questions and walk to the front of the class where possible . |
| 7 | ‘ Or do you think we can grow wings and fly across the Greshorns ? ’ |
| 8 | You finish your work and you want to relax , but you ca n't , because you have to queue for tomatoes or meat and you ca n't find it in this shop , or that , and you have to walk around and spend hours on shopping , then cook and clean and wash clothes and look after the children . |
| 9 | I welcome my hon. Friend 's answer , but will he ensure that the employees of the trust ports have an opportunity to purchase shares and partake in the wealth created , thereby furthering the Government 's privatisation proposals and the extension of share ownership ? |
| 10 | It 's also your responsibility to strip beds and arrange for the disposal of inflammable or explosive materials . |
| 11 | In Bacon 's books , Sprat says , ‘ are every where scattered the best arguments , that can be produced for the defence of Experimental Philosophy ; and the best directions , that are needful to promote it ’ , while according to Glanvill ‘ all the main heads of natural history have received aids and increase from the famous Bacon , who led the way to substantial wisdom , and hath given most excellent directions for the method of such an history of nature ’ . |
| 12 | The software , which runs under DOS , is intended to assist in analysing and solving problems and help in the building of successful business strategies . |
| 13 | The software , which runs under DOS , is intended to assist in analysing and solving problems and help in the building of successful business strategies . |
| 14 | This inflicted great sorrow on their families , for without burial of the flesh , the victims would become phantoms and speak to the living without ever finding rest . |
| 15 | I should have liked simply to disobey orders and stay in the trench . |
| 16 | In the dark old days rugby tours never went further than the west country or Wales … but times are changing fast as the sport gets more professional … you have to think big time now to win matches and survive in the first division … that 's why Gloucester 's new full-time director Barrie Corless and coach Keith Richardson took the players off to Italy for a two match tour |
| 17 | ‘ He preferred to play golf , watch videos and settle into the role of couch potato while Fergie did her own thing , ’ said one . |
| 18 | Well a little more , in future ask travels for the earliest make changes and deal with the future and again this is remarkable that only sixty five per cent absolutely endorse that but our potentials in the , if you look at the next examples , forty four we are told here were in favour of the strategy and thirty six per cent opposed . |
| 19 | In fact , all a person would need to do in the middle of a Darkfall storm would be to remain calm , not touch anything — unless he or she is wearing gloves and wait for the effect to pass . |
| 20 | Must taxes create distortions and lead to the waste or inefficiency which Figure 16–3 suggests ? |
| 21 | Declining yews lose needles and develop in the same pattern as other conifers , and affected beech show specific changes to their branching structure . |
| 22 | He can make suggestions and harangue in the man 's council meeting , but he can not order people into action . |
| 23 | Life can be good if you choose to make it that way , you should tell the truth , expose lies and live in the moment . |
| 24 | ‘ At which point I 'd have hysterics and writhe on the ground ? ’ |
| 25 | Sabs also crack whips and shout like the huntsmen to confuse the hounds , trained to obey those sounds . |
| 26 | The Rev. Goldsmith returned to England in June 1891 , returning to Halling in July to hold meetings and preach at the Church before his return to Australia . |
| 27 | Too often people throw up ideas — ‘ Let's have so-and-so as a speaker on Tuesday and a dance on the Wednesday and a banquet on Thursday ’ — without ever stopping to think how any of these will help reach goals or fit into the overall time . |
| 28 | A director from each of the new companies would acquire shares and sit on the SUPPLYKITS board : as Miranda owned the entire company , these inducement shares would reduce her holding , but Adam had convinced a reluctant Miranda that by relinquishing fifteen per cent of her shares , she was exchanging a hundred per cent of a small orange for eighty-five per cent of a crateful . |
| 29 | Then in the 1830s thousands of immigrants arrived to seek homes and work in the new town that had been laid out by Joseph Pease , the Quaker industrialist who had extended the famous Stockton to Darlington railway so as to export coal from his Teeside wharves . |
| 30 | I could n't figure out why our spirits were supposed to have bodies and exist in the physical world of cars and houses . |