Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One advantage of the fly and inner going up together is that the inner is kept at a set distance from the fly , preventing the two from touching and allowing moisture to leak through to the inside . |
| 2 | MARK Ramprakash believes he needs help to get back to the top after being overlooked for England 's two winter tours . |
| 3 | TECHNO CLASSICS Vol 1 ’ is the well sorted compilation to come out of the mighty Rising High stable , and Casper and his mates have given us FIVE CD copies to give away ! |
| 4 | ‘ They want Daddy to go along to the police-station at Poltown to make sure the sacks are the ones stolen , ’ said Mrs. Yatton . |
| 5 | This results from a failure in the sealing of the unit and causes condensation to build up between the panes of glass . |
| 6 | This literally causes water to pile up in the western Pacific : a veritable hill of water . |
| 7 | You expect fire to come out of the back of his ball when he hits it , but his ball 's flight is no different to mine . |
| 8 | You expect fire to come out of the back of his ball when he hits it , but his ball 's flight is no different to mine . |
| 9 | Joints open up , and crumbling putty allows water to seep in around the panes , eventually rotting the glazing bars and frame members . |
| 10 | And sales at one of the country 's biggest marts could create traffic chaos , with more than 1,000 steers having to be put through a race at Borderway mart to check ear tags , causing traffic to back up onto the motorway . |
| 11 | She does n't know how he got through the main doors and an electronically operated gate to get in to the courtyard where the car is always left unlocked . |
| 12 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 13 | The most commonly-used light source is a discharge lamp , generally with a collimating capillary which allows a pencil of light to escape into the sample region without permitting sample to flow back into the discharge . |
| 14 | From here the route continues north , up through Hall Wood to reach Carron Crag , then north for ½ mile before turning south-east to arrive back at the centre . |
| 15 | Tess stepped out of the tomb and managed to persuade Angel to walk back to the house , without waking him . |
| 16 | The voices are few not only because it takes courage to speak out against the tide of opinion , but because few can see the issue in a wider context and take the longer perspective . |
| 17 | Stella the personnel administrator will not simply push paper around in Personnel but will take action to cut down on the bureaucracy . |
| 18 | The rocks or stones at the pool boundary retain the bog-garden soil yet allow water to percolate through from the pool . |
| 19 | The isoenzymes , which may be derived from alternative gene sets provided by polyploidy , in effect increase membrane permeability and allow water to pass out of the cells , concentrating cell solutions and lowering their freezing points . |
| 20 | Whenever possible allow sunlight to filter through to the tank . |
| 21 | She finds time to sit down with the patient before she 's wheeled off to X-Ray , explaining exactly how the lung will be sealed off , that pain is inevitable and how it will be controlled . |
| 22 | There are certain associates , who 're not going to use a rate book , there 's associates who er , because you 're doing a two appointment sale , will always have time to come back to the office and get a computer quote and go back with the right answer . |
| 23 | I share the view of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East that it does not make sense to go back to the days of the red flag , but we must find a compromise between the passenger 's interest , which is the interest of the railways , and the pedestrian 's interest . |
| 24 | They circle Sycorax 's saman tree , where stands the hut Kit used as a temporary headquarters before Belmont House was finished , and they turn south to pass out of the colony , into the residual forest , where they can hide until it will be safe to join a village — if her people will take her in again . |
| 25 | If you were away last week can you please leave space to catch up with the writing which you will do in your own time . |
| 26 | There 's no alternative , I 'm afraid , to covering up for a few days , using a higher SPF sunscreen and taking care to stay out of the sun as much as possible . |
| 27 | Whether or not this constitutional tug of war is resolved by the proposed referendum on presidential powers in April — indeed whether anyone will get around to formulating questions for it , or persuading the battle scarred citizenry to turn up at the ballot box — are still matters of obsessive speculation . |
| 28 | He could , perfectly casually have asked Lorrimer to stay on after the meeting ; why had n't he ? |
| 29 | The waif-like screen star , who in recent years has devoted her energies to helping the world 's starving children , has just pleaded for a week of peace in Bosnia to enable food to get through to the children there . |
| 30 | They 've grown fat on gold , not the Garrimperos They 're a strong political lobby and would never allow business to close down over the little matter of mercury . |