Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect England to revert to the front row that has done so well for so long , which means I must play out of my skin against Moore for the chance to face the guy again next week . |
| 2 | Erm , I think Yeltsin 's threat as it were to the Ukrainian is actually a diplomatic move , he wants Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union , er and if it does so he 's not going to make an issue of the border , but , er , if it does break away completely I think what he 's saying is well there 's a frontier that we 're going to have to reconsider because large Eastern areas of Ukraine including huge industrial towns are predominantly populated by Russians . |
| 3 | Thus provisioned , he invited Louise to come to the banqueting hall to celebrate her birthday , though in a very quiet way , he assured her ; he had not forgotten that she must still be suffering on account of her father , who had only recently taken his last dive down the well in the Residency yard in the wake of so many of his former patients . |
| 4 | By the 1290s the priory 's financial base was secure enough to enable Eastry to invest in the local land market and , after the expulsion of the Jews , to acquire the former Jewish tenements in the city of Canterbury . |
| 5 | The snag is that a clause in the civil settlement allows Exxon to withdraw from the entire agreement if part of the plea bargain is rejected by the courts . |
| 6 | In fact , Joshua 's retirement to the safety of his estate had freed Dowd to wander until the old man 's demise , when he was drawn back to offer his services to Joshua 's son Nathaniel , only revealing his true nature once he 'd made himself indispensable , for fear he was trapped between his bounden duty and the zeal of a Christian . |
| 7 | The Dow Jones opened thirty points lower in reaction to rising oil prices which called London , caused London to move below the two thousand level . |
| 8 | Jennie then asked Katharine to come across the half diagonal in a nice , steady canter , and to imagine ‘ picking him up and putting him down again on the other leg . ’ |
| 9 | He encouraged Right-Ons to pile into the dilapidated inner-city party machines and replace the ageing right-wing old guard . |
| 10 | It is believed to be Miss Glover who first encouraged Christabel to embark on the grandiose and obscure epic poem , The Fairy Melusina , a retelling of the old tale of the magical half-woman , half-snake . |
| 11 | A no vote by the Danes in their referendum , due in May or April , would condemn Britain to remain in the slow lane of a two-speed Europe . |
| 12 | Impact ‘ The long-ball game is no good to me and it wo n't enable England to succeed in the 1994 World Cup in America . ’ |
| 13 | Indeed , the Soviet press supported a query by the Indian Foreign Minister , N. Rao , in May 1981 about whether to permit Pakistan to remain in the Non-Aligned Movement with the assertion that ‘ Islamabad 's policy of all possible military rapprochement with Washington and the huge shipments of American arms that have been promised can not help but raise legitimate doubts among many member countries of the Non-Aligned Movement as to whether Pakistan is legally entitled to remain in their ranks ’ . |
| 14 | Erm , if we are asking Mr to look at the long-term viability and the ways of preserving that , those options may be other than option one which was what you moved , and I think it 's rather premature to actually go down a road that says we preserve it in it 's present form with some disposals , when , we are asking for a report for it 's future viability , which may mean complete disposal , or may not , and I think , that , that 's why I 've seconded Mr 's amendment , because it 's right we should wait for that that report to come to property , know the full facts , and then we can make a decision as to which option we want for the County Farms estate . |
| 15 | Shaw 's book , however , did encourage Eliot to think of the modern in terms of the ancient , of ‘ creative evolution ’ , of ‘ Darwin' , ‘ biology ’ , and the ‘ ultimate questions ’ raised by ‘ the attempt to expose a panorama of human history ‘ as far as thought can reach ’ . |
| 16 | The talks had been undertaken by the English-speaking provinces with a view to agreeing a package of reforms which would induce Quebec to remain within the Canadian confederation . |
| 17 | Well , after we sold about fifty thousand , Terence Stamp decided he did n't want to be on our cover so we got Morrissey to pose in the same position . |
| 18 | Two of the best examples occur when the Lilac Fairy casts the spell that sends Aurora to sleep in The Sleeping Beauty , ( ’ Until a prince comes , sees her , falls in love and kisses her awake . ' ) |
| 19 | Anyway , I 'll get Jannie to look in the local agents and keep her ears open . ’ |
| 20 | English intervention was anyway short-lived , for by 1630 the threat of imminent financial disaster at home had forced Charles to withdraw from the European conflict . |
| 21 | Colonel Ford , worried that he was losing his veteran Captain of skirmishers , had begged d'Alembord to stay for the impending campaign and implicit in the Colonel 's plea was a promise that d'Alembord would receive the next vacant majority in the battalion . |
| 22 | After a gracious speech in which he asked America to unite behind the new president , he whispered to his wife : ‘ It 's over . ’ |
| 23 | When he did , with a flustered Lady Agnes in tow , Corbett abruptly told him to leave and asked Agnes to sit on the crude bench opposite him . |
| 24 | ‘ How do you do ? ’ said Julia , realising that she was shaking hands with the man who had sent David to fight with the Italian partisans . |
| 25 | McGee piloted him upstairs to the drawing room , leaving Julia to cope with the next bell which came immediately . |
| 26 | Taking a clearance from Nilsson , Sheridan found Palmer , whose centre left Williams to snap in the first goal from close range . |
| 27 | Force , for example , conveys an idea of coercion similar to that expressed by make in many of its uses , and yet , like cause , it is followed by the to infinitive : ( 159 ) An injury forced Skorich to quit after the 1949 season . |
| 28 | He did n't want Eileen to lie in the Catholic cemetery in Naas , since the place reserved for the Arbuthnots was forbidden to her . |
| 29 | Jennie instructed Katharine to come across the diagonal and on each third canter stride to ask for a flying change , which would result , ( hopefully ! ) in a change of leg every fourth stride . |
| 30 | Auque 's news appeared to point to the fact that John was being held by an Iranian-backed group , and in March Hashemi Rafsanjani called a news conference in Tehran during which he repeated his request that Britain should help locate the missing Iranians in Beirut if it wanted Iran to help with the British hostages . |