Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [noun prp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Labour and the Liberal Democrats want to pull Scotland out of the mainstream of the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | I was always afraid that Hindley would hurt his small son , either by accident or on purpose , when he was drunk , so I tried to keep Hareton out of the way . |
| 3 | Attempts at privatisation , designed to push SOEs on to the global bandwagon , have often been accompanied by an easing of equity limitations in other sectors . |
| 4 | It was decided not to try to smuggle Hess out on the courier run , although the idea of making him do a parachute drop at his age seemed risky and wrong-headed to the Englishman , if not malicious . |
| 5 | But even the fiercest dissenter would have been pushed to leave McIlvanney out of the frame . |
| 6 | However , the huge site fees lodged by the casinos in Las Vegas would appear to put London out of the running . |
| 7 | He leaned inwards and seemed to lift Jo out of the car with one hand . |
| 8 | I do n't forget how often you have threatened to throw Ben on to the streets ; knowing full well that if he went , I would go with him . |
| 9 | She had to face the fact that Phoebe was not , not then and not at any time , going to pull Maggie out from the night-time and into the daylight of loving and needing . |
| 10 | CONFIDENCE is what is needed to get Britain out of the recession . |
| 11 | The crowd had parted to let Harriet through to the centre of the square . |
| 12 | Clinton has vowed to assist the beleaguered Boris Yeltsin as he struggles to pull Russia out of the mire caused by decades of hardline Communist rule . |
| 13 | But the men in white arrived and began to pull Karen out of the room . |
| 14 | An imperious wave of the hand summoned a serf to take fitzAlan 's horse , and with another apologetic smile de Villiers began to guide Isabel over to the castle forebuilding . |
| 15 | And barn owls are very inquisitive , as I discovered later when I began to take Dawn out into the fields . |
| 16 | As the man who had emerged to lead France out of the abyss of June 1940 , he could hardly countenance a return to the errors that had brought about the débcle . |
| 17 | The recognition by IBM Corp that Microsoft Corp products are not going to go away and that it ca n't build its own personal computer world solely on OS/2 — which has led the company to decide to put NT up on the PowerPC and to do a DB2/NT version of its personal computer database is to culminate in a meeting between new IBM chief executive Louis Gerstner and Microsoft chief Bill Gates later this month to discuss areas of mutual interest , the Wall Street Journal says . |
| 18 | By using my right knee to steady the wheel when I changed gear , I managed to get Armstrong out of the hospital car park . |
| 19 | Somehow I managed to get Joe out of the house , and in the daylight he gradually became normal again . |
| 20 | Just two elections ago Mr Kinnock was pledged to take Britain out of the EEC . |
| 21 | He managed to manhandle Tammuz out of the door , to the sound of Jahsaxa 's malevolent laughter . |
| 22 | At the time , Don Revie was fighting to keep Leeds out of the Third Division . |
| 23 | Patrick did not want to take Chris back to the Barbican . |
| 24 | Six months later Acheson indicated that the United States wished to keep Taiwan out of the hands of mainland China . |
| 25 | ‘ However , David Pleat did not want to sell him because he was involved in trying to keep Luton out of the relegation situation . |
| 26 | Benny knew he had to get William out of the smoke before he did anything else . |
| 27 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 28 | It must also put together a package which will help to ease Britain out of the recession . |
| 29 | I wanted to invite Virginia back to the unit to show her what these rationalisations will really mean at the sharp end . |
| 30 | I nearly always won , as I remember ; and as we left the club or the hall I would make quite a show of hailing a taxi , offering to drop Julian off at the nearest tube . |