Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , she said she would now prefer to try to cope without coming to the hospital but would also said she was sure she would not take a further overdose . |
| 2 | Chiang tried to escape by running up the mountain , and a pavilion has been built to mark the place where he tried to hide in a crevice before he was caught . |
| 3 | Any consideration of the Labour Party concern to change the kind of democracy on offer to the people within a new British constitution has to begin by attending to the battles within the Labour Party and to the resulting changes that have occurred in the constitution of the party . |
| 4 | The loss of reformist energy on the domestic front was another potential problem ( as de Gaulle seemed to acknowledge in returning to the old theme of participation in 1966 – 67 ) . |
| 5 | He was playing in a match at Windsor Great Park when , after stretching for a ball , he was seen to wince before going to the side of the field to lie down . |
| 6 | This appears to be the first contradiction which the bishops later sought to resolve by withdrawing from the direct contact method . |
| 7 | Essentially the message is that nobody knows how far community care can be made to stretch without snapping under the strain . |
| 8 | DEC has decided to withdraw from exhibiting at the London Open Systems Show the first week in November , saying that it is worried about lack of support for the event . |
| 9 | It is by no means uncommon for exploratory social research in an area where little work has been done to begin by looking at the characteristics of people involved . |
| 10 | Turning now to the income-related benefits , as the House knows , the uprating is , in this respect , based not on the full retail prices index , but on what is known as the Rossi index , which , in essence , is the RPI less housing costs but which we have this year brought more exactly into line with what the benefits are intended to cover by including in the calculation 20 per cent . |
| 11 | He intends to concentrate on writing for the next year , with a summer break to make an irreverent beginner 's Guide to Opera , co-written with his colleague Paul Whitehouse . |
| 12 | My understanding from your letter of [ Date ] is that I am jointly instructed by the vendor , Mr D Smith , and the purchasers ( as set out in the Agreement between the parties dated [ Date ] ) and that I am requested to certify in writing to the parties , the value , in my opinion , of Mr D Smith 's shares at [ Date ] . |
| 13 | A majority of those attending the meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party had favoured the abolition of the death penalty ; and the strength of their feeling on this issue was such that it was most unlikely that they could be persuaded to refrain from voting for the amendment . |
| 14 | She was heard to pause before going into the bathroom , the latch of which gave its distinctive click . |
| 15 | Then Monica , in apparently wanting the ITF to change the Olympic eligibility rules to suit top players who did not want to qualify by playing in the Federation Cup , said ‘ without Gabriela , Martina or I in the Olympics , they would n't really be the Olympics and Steffi could win the gold medal playing left-handed . ’ |
| 16 | I dropped my rope at the base of one of the trees and started to rake , struggling to keep from slipping on the steep slope with its loose pine-needle surface . |
| 17 | A new firm would have to invest in learning about the business , and the audit fee would have to reflect that . ’ |
| 18 | I can not help but marvel over the miracle of cordless technology when perched 40ft high , drilling through roof rafters with a cordless tool , not having to worry about tripping over the cable or whether it 's going to rain . |
| 19 | Pearl uses none of the electronic or ‘ sound enhancing ’ techniques currently fashionable , and aims to concentrate on extracting from the original grooves the essence of music . |
| 20 | Individuals are not accorded the protection given to third States to treaties of having to assent in writing to the imposition of burdens upon them . |
| 21 | Because babies are delicate and vulnerable and because the mother — for all kinds of reasons — is compelled to succeed in caring for the child , the situation has a potential for much distress on the mother 's part if anything goes wrong . |
| 22 | The acquisition of a skeleton of calcium phosphate marked the point at which the fossil record began to contribute to the history of the group which , from our selfish viewpoint , we are conditioned to think of lying at the pinnacle of all evolutionary trees . |
| 23 | The largest pair of Stillsons may shift the nuts , but you may have to resort to cutting through the pipes . |
| 24 | Apply the pad , soaked in remover , to the nail for a second or two ; allow to soften before swabbing off the polish thoroughly . |
| 25 | I managed to escape by diving into the river . |
| 26 | So often I have been forced to submit to playing on the worst courts or not at all . |
| 27 | It also seems to be the character of the trust in personam to which a later source , the fourth-century paraphrase of Gaius from Autun , means to refer in speaking of the beneficiary of a trust of a whole estate as having no right to take possession of the estate himself but having to claim it from the heir . |
| 28 | I did n't want to have to hang about waiting for the attendant to open lockers . |
| 29 | Leave to cool before removing from the tin . |
| 30 | For the last thing I wish to see alongside skimping on the police is local authorities reducing the number of teachers where they are needed to teach pupils . |