Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two senior boys have expressed an interest in attending a course to enable them to participate more in the running of the club [ the J.G.V.A. has agreed to pay their fees ] a volunteer Diane Prior has joined the staff , Laura Brown has been given a date for mini bus driving test , two staff members have attended a Youth Work Conference for South West Edinburgh — G. Lightheart has ordered new equipment . |
| 2 | Two senior boys have expressed an interest in attending a course to enable them to participate more in the running of the club ( the J.G.V.A. has agreed to pay their fees ) a volunteer Diane Prior has joined the staff , Laura Brown has been given a date for mini bus driving test , two staff members have attended a Youth Work Conference for South West Edinburgh — G. Lightheart has ordered new equipment . |
| 3 | And booksellers were ready for it with pretty much the right books at the right prices to enable them to compete effectively for the consumer 's cautiously placed pound . |
| 4 | She was n't keen on her three rather quieter children being involved , and asked them to return home from the farm if the W children arrived to play . |
| 5 | I want them to hear more about the world — Europe , South East Asia , the developing world . |
| 6 | And with divers on long bottom times , the supervisor needs them to return quickly to the basket , so that he can recover them for in-water decompression . |
| 7 | Sometimes she wants me to work hard on the court and she is very serious and at home she is very nice to me . |
| 8 | ‘ Grimm , ’ he said , ‘ I want you to go deep into the ruptured entrails of Vasilariov to search for another hydra . |
| 9 | ‘ I want you to deal personally with the Potrovsky widow . |
| 10 | That is why I want you to listen carefully to the dreaded DOs and DON'Ts I am about to give you . |
| 11 | ‘ I want you to stay here in the yard until he returns . |
| 12 | It appears that Harley has a special mirror enabling him to see clearly into the future . |
| 13 | The net emissions of Germany 's power stations were reduced from 1.6 million tonnes to 0.5 million tonnes within five years , enabling it to go far beyond the 30 per cent Club target . |
| 14 | Hundreds of residents of the Woolston area , the local parish council and the borough council oppose the gipsy camp plan but Cheshire wants it to go ahead on the site , off Manchester Road , near the junction with the M6 . |
| 15 | Smith added : ‘ We did n't plan for a start like that , but it helped us to play well in the first half . |
| 16 | What some writers now term the ‘ widening gap ’ between the rich and the poor , both within countries and between the First and the Third Worlds , might tempt us to subscribe pessimistically to the view that the countries of the Third World are passive victims of the exercise of First World hegemon countries ' power . |
| 17 | Remember Ah asked ye to go slowly at the start ? |
| 18 | Of course the Captain forbade me to go anywhere near the place again . |
| 19 | The rest had followed Hazel when he roused them and , without explanation , told them to go quickly outside the barn . |
| 20 | The House will expect me to apologise again for the remarks that I injudiciously made when I was trying to illustrate a simple point — that , with the private sector providing more rail services in future , I hope that a range of choice will be available to the travelling public in terms of price and time of day , rather like that provided by the airlines and the long-distance coach market . |
| 21 | ‘ Did you honestly expect me to stay home at the barn and carry on as if nothing had happened after you threw all those accusations at me ? |
| 22 | At this point the female brings ( digs ) them out , and allows them to feed just outside the entrance to the cave . |
| 23 | There was something else now ; something that had n't been immediately apparent to Cardiff , but had been seen by the others straightaway and which was causing them to back away from the wall . |
| 24 | Do you think that teachers really do n't expect them to do well in the sciences and perhaps even positively discourage them from going into science ? |
| 25 | If prison riots are caused by overcrowding , understaffing , bad physical conditions and poor security , one would expect them to occur exclusively in the local prisons and remand centres which are the most overcrowded and understaffed , where conditions are worse and security less tight than in many longer-stay establishments . |
| 26 | It was an angle that caused them to fall apart in the end . |
| 27 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 28 | PF1/6 — the ABORT key allows you to exit immediately from the option , without carrying out any further processing . |
| 29 | However , you will get more credit if you can put forward a solution which allows you to operate effectively with the staff you already have . |
| 30 | The woman , who worked as a waitress in the sergeant 's mess , told Ingrid all she knew about the compound , and advised her to steer clear of the cookhouse . |