Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 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 " .
2 but did grammar really expect to get away with including the Christmas dinner in their schools meals budget ?
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 The Northern Ireland Conservatives have a principle and a resolution which you have to look hard for among the parties on ‘ mainland ’ Great Britain .
7 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 .
  Next page