Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the woman has asked him to stop , if she has changed her mind and does n't want to go through with with the action o of intercourse or whatever , then the man should stop . |
| 2 | Hewitt ( 1986 ) observes that " black youngsters themselves often reach a peak of Creole use in their late teens " ( p. 193 ) while where white Creole users are concerned , " most youngsters who employ Creole cease to do so at about the age of sixteen " . |
| 3 | but did grammar really expect to get away with including the Christmas dinner in their schools meals budget ? |
| 4 | So that the price we want to end up with on the books is is |
| 5 | Those are the two other issues that I want to get on to in the last part of the programme . |
| 6 | ’ With her qualifications this is hardly the city you 'd choose to come back to in the middle of an economic recession . ’ |
| 7 | The magnetotail is thought to extend downwind to beyond the orbit of Saturn , and it was detected by Voyager 2 en route to Saturn from Jupiter . |
| 8 | ‘ They were beginning to fire back from behind the station . |
| 9 | Painted very much under Freud 's influence but with a neo-romantic hangover , this portrait incorporates a considerable amount of emotive distortion which serves , not to break the realist mode , but to enhance the immediacy of the sitter 's presence , so that Tindle 's face seems to press forward from within the picture space with almost mesmerising effect . |
| 10 | Someone comes up to you and you only have to say you 're not interested in drugs ; sooner or later they 'll leave you alone because they 're too busy trying to find a £5 deal to bang up with in the evening . |
| 11 | And , while a little pressure can do us good — without it some of us might n't even bother to slither out from under the Slumberdown in the mornings — too much is definitely a bad thing . |
| 12 | This was the sight that Bill Brice saw when he smilingly turned round , holding the fresh bottle of sherry which he had been kneeling to get out from under the window-seat . |
| 13 | The moon threatens to come out from behind the clouds again and I have to jump down to the paving stones of the patio beneath . |
| 14 | Our President has referred to many of the problems we currently face and will continue to come up against in the future . |
| 15 | It was the form twos , the only thing that I , that they had to , they had to look forward to in the whole time they were there . |
| 16 | Because my experience was not of being poor , the discomforts of the poverty that I had to put up with in the rue Victorie did not suggest themselves as unending . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's our newest arrival ’ said the Foreman with a laugh ; adding thoughtlessly , ‘ and I 'll bet her conditions are better than the ones you had to put up with in the war . |
| 18 | Which is just as well considering what she had to put up with from the fans . |
| 19 | Lewis 's performance was a reminder of how compelling heavyweight boxing can still be when it dares to step out from behind the curtain of cynical and protective matchmaking ; when it dares to put on a career life-or-death fight between two men with the pedigree to be king . |
| 20 | The Northern Ireland Conservatives have a principle and a resolution which you have to look hard for among the parties on ‘ mainland ’ Great Britain . |
| 21 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |
| 22 | He played the first 11 well enough , but the putts refused to drop apart from at the eighth and 10th , where first he faced little chips . |