Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | you you mounted up a certain amount of debt , you tried to get it paid by the end of the quarter . |
| 2 | At the end of 1978 , when he realized the danger that Khomeini was inflicting on the Shah from France , Marenches say he tried to have him expelled from the country . |
| 3 | If your elderly relative is unfortunate enough to be registered with a doctor who is impatient with the older patients on his list and not particularly interested in geriatric medicine , the best thing to do is to try to get her transferred to the list of another doctor in the area whose attitude towards his elderly patients is known to be more sympathetic and thorough . |
| 4 | ‘ You write the specifications for her repairs , and I 'll guarantee to have them done at the best boatyard in America . ’ |
| 5 | He shouted to make himself heard above the din : " I want to see you at once , " |
| 6 | An and I must admit that I would n't , I would not expect to see anybody delegated within the contract at less than M S one level . |
| 7 | Variant weapons included the guisarme or fauchard , which persisted in many forms as late as the seventeenth century , and inflicted such horrible wounds that attempts were made to have it banned during the medieval period . |
| 8 | I know the time is slipping and I hope to get it done in the next two weeks . |
| 9 | Our spies report that Bonkers Bono is so excited he 's decided to have it built in the shape of a guitar , though we at Public NME think a huge shoe-shape would be more relevant as the new album U2 are currently working on is supposed to be a load of old cobblers . |
| 10 | I asked him again , shouting to make myself heard above the grumble of thunder and the sound of water . |
| 11 | As she stood uncertainly at the top of stairs leading down , she began to wonder how she was going to make herself heard above the noise . |
| 12 | In spite of Amritsar , he announced himself willing to co-operate with the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms which were unveiled at the end of the year , and only changed his mind as the degree of Dyer 's support in British public opinion was borne in upon him , and as he began to find himself isolated by the more radical elements in Congress , who had either already lost their faith in the British , or had never had any . |
| 13 | The House declined to consider itself bound by the Rainham Chemicals case where it seems to have been taken for granted that such an activity constituted a non-natural use of land . |
| 14 | ‘ In those days , the new psychology was just beginning to make itself felt in the circles I most frequented in Oxford , ’ he told readers of the 1950 reprint of Dymer . |
| 15 | Old Somervillians visiting Oxford are invited to make themselves known to the Librarian , Pauline Adams ( History , 1962 ) who is the Governing Body 's representative on the A. S. M. Committee and would be delighted to meet them . |
| 16 | ‘ Kick hard left again ’ ; I yelled to make myself heard above the deafening roar of the wind and the sea . |
| 17 | In September 1955 seismic activity began to make itself felt in the surrounding area , gradually increasing in severity until 22 October , when the eruption commenced . |
| 18 | More generally , the issue became involved with widespread feelings of disquiet over the increase in the ‘ visibility ’ of local government in Orkney as the Orkney Islands Council , under the impetus of new staff , new problems , new government legislation and new powers began to make itself felt throughout the islands . |
| 19 | Crosby blew his top after learning of the Coppell link and said yesterday : ‘ I was angry and upset to read somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell . |
| 20 | Parents who fork out one a year for expensive games would not have to see them abandoned in the cupboard and teenagers could have a dozen games a year at pocket money prices . |
| 21 | I do not know whether the director of The Tallis Scholars was gratified to find himself presented in The New Yorker as an American stereotype of the classy Englishman with a dandyish dress sense , a love of cricket , a public school education leading to Oxford , and a colloquial idiom with a touch of P. G. Wodehouse . |
| 22 | ‘ You see , ’ I explained , ‘ for two years I 've had to shout to make myself understood by the giants . |
| 23 | But in the evening , on what was to prove his last visit , the prisoner was so long and so quiet that eventually the carabiniere who had remained to guard him banged on the door . |
| 24 | If Tommaso had n't troubled to have me paged at the opera , you would certainly have performed coitus with this young woman and d'ye know what would have happened then ? ’ |
| 25 | And Ollie managed to get himself sacked from the place . |
| 26 | Trevor Skeet struggled to make himself heard against the din . |
| 27 | Jacques Devraux had not troubled to make him known to the senator , but while his father made a final check of the baggage truck , Paul Devraux had patted him affectionately on the shoulder and introduced him to them as " the great all-purpose Annamese genie Ngo Van Loc , who 's houseboy , camp boy , chauffeur and indispensable general assistant to the humble Devraux family . " |
| 28 | He publicly endorsed the death sentence on Salman Rushdie — an act which oddly failed to get him charged with the crime of incitement to murder — and wants to set up a Muslim parliament . |
| 29 | He attempted to have the case thrown out as " frivolous and vexatious " , but failed to have it struck off the High Court list . |
| 30 | Mrs Thatcher fought to have it put at the top of the agenda at the EC Summit in June 1989 . |