Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | On Dec. 29 the HCR met for the first time since the attempted coup and approved the new Cabinet , whose membership was announced the following day . |
| 2 | ‘ This is probably my most important game to date , certainly I have never played in front of the kind of crowd that is expected , and I have never played at Twickenham , though I have heard about the swirling wind that can make life uncomfortable for kickers . |
| 3 | Further , on appointment he had realised for the first time that the eastern parts of the District remained largely undeveloped by the WEA . |
| 4 | And realised for the first time that my lot as a walker was far safer than that of a cyclist . |
| 5 | Erm I do look for opportunities to talk to people about God but I , I certainly think that you have to wait for the right opportunity because , if people are ill or very down , then it often is n't the right time when they 're vulnerable erm to try and erm talk to them about something . |
| 6 | As in the Merchant Service , a close friendship usually developed between the Commanding Officer and the Chief Engineer , and on the cutters the Commander usually tried to sail with the same chief whenever possible . |
| 7 | Intimation had been received during the previous year that they were considering paying over to the Official Trustee of Charitable Funds the sum of £12,000 , the interest on which would be sufficient to maintain their endowment of £300 . |
| 8 | He not only got through the first round but he reached the final again ! |
| 9 | In accordance with the promptings of his noble nature , he envisioned that streams of water should be made to flow through the proposed fort and that its terraces should overlook the river . |
| 10 | The late Frank Howes showed an understanding of the problems racing a choreographer when he wrote : ‘ Every dance has its own rhythm , just as every dancer has an inborn sense of measuring time because each movement must be felt to flow through the whole body as well as the space in which it moves . |
| 11 | In 1923 he married Margaret Kavanagh , upon whose assistance in his work he had increasingly relied during the growing blindness that afflicted his later years . |
| 12 | When the hounds checked for the fourth time and could no. find again no matter how the huntsman held them round , Nora and Sir George withdrew . |
| 13 | The DRO can follow up a placement to discuss any problems that may arise between the disabled worker and his employer . |
| 14 | I applied for the occasional post that I thought might be interesting , but never heard anything back . |
| 15 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 16 | About 245,000 people receive community care grants through the social fund and one million get crisis loans . |
| 17 | However , under the test derived from Caldwell , a person is not reckless if he thinks about the possible risk but decides that it does not obtain . |
| 18 | ‘ Limpar could play for Arsenal again the way he plays for the national team if only Graham had more faith in him . |
| 19 | If the child does n't want to go for the first test or even the second test , it is their right . ’ |
| 20 | Mayson was denied his hat-trick by good ‘ keeping and twice Smyth was through , only to go for the unselfish option when perhaps a shot would have been better . |
| 21 | Though physically a lightly built rugby player , he never hesitated to go for the top league and would be bounced and shaken regularly . |
| 22 | To go for the lapidary effect as such is sterile ; one tries for the lapidary because , if achieved , it is a guarantee of the verity of one 's feeling — Christian or non-Christian , as the case may be . |
| 23 | Universities are ready to go for the big time and exploit their earning capacity in a way they have n't in the past . |
| 24 | In his time , Even allowing for the good fellowship that exists throughout bowls , he has been a beacon of sportsmanship . |
| 25 | It was fairly clear that there was going to be some smuggling as well but , even allowing for the often-repeated story that other ships lay over the horizon and sent boats in to add to the stock on board the single ship , the net profits from the ship could hardly have been much more than twice those of the slave-trading . |
| 26 | Even allowing for the surprising restraint that the media has shown in not reporting some instances that local residents would term ‘ a riot ’ , Britain remains a remarkably peaceful society , if the riot index is the only indicator used . |
| 27 | Allowing for the utmost frankness and lack of embarrassment possible with the individual client , it might be pointed out that it is possible to be too bright and breezy . |
| 28 | With four minutes left I was worried — worried whether I would be able to go out and eat for the next week or so . |
| 29 | The question of whether the cash equivalent of a benefit to an employee should be calculated as the marginal cost or average cost of providing the benefit is currently under consideration by the House of Lords , in the case of Pepper v Hart . |
| 30 | The question of whether the cash equivalent of providing a benefit to an employee should be calculated as the marginal cost or average cost of providing the benefit is currently under consideration by the House of Lords in the case of Pepper v Hart . |