Example sentences of "[verb] to [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That belief has to he communicated within the company as well as outside . |
| 2 | I could hear one of the children crying and shouted to them to get on the floor . |
| 3 | While writing this chapter , it occurred to me to look through the list of constellations to see in how many the five leading stars were , in order , Alpha , Beta , Gamma , Delta and Epsilon . |
| 4 | When the young Alfred Hitchcock was looking for a studio in which to learn the craft of filmmaking , it never occurred to him to knock at the doors of Samuelson 's Worton Hall or Stoll at Cricklewood . |
| 5 | Coming back , she saw for the first time that a letter addressed to herself lay on the kitchen table . |
| 6 | Listening to them complaining about the usual stuff ! |
| 7 | The Spirit is his parting gift to the Church to make his presence as real to them as if they were listening to him teaching beside the Sea of Galilee : and the Spirit can do more for us than ever Jesus could have done had we been his contemporaries . |
| 8 | Then he was up and levering the round boulder free , not listening to it crash down the mountain , doubting if the attackers would hear or see — and , if they did , whether they would be persuaded that it was his own body tumbling — but it was one extra little chance that cost him only a few seconds . |
| 9 | Her sisters-in-law excluded her from their gossip ; the servants behaved towards her with greater formality and at least once a day she was summoned to Dona Marguerita 's room to sit with her and listen to her talking about the family 's history and her hopes and ambitions for João . |
| 10 | Because you 'd only get half a pound perhaps and perhaps you 'd only get perhaps , this unit 'd only get two , According to what came into the country , or what was on the market . |
| 11 | Lorrimer 's voice came to him muffled by the handkerchief . |
| 12 | But even if Sheridan 's case was rightly decided and a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense will support a plea of autrefois convict , that does not appear to me to lead to the conclusion that a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense must end the power of the court to allow a plea to be changed . |
| 13 | The place I got , I used to hate going to bed — it was so damp , I had to listen to it dripping off the curtains . |
| 14 | You would have forfeited Tracy Castle immediately , and ‘ t would have been granted to me to hold for the King . |
| 15 | The beautiful tawny stone of the great churches and university buildings seemed to me stained with the blood of Republican idealists in the British battalion of the 15th International Brigade . |
| 16 | The male body was of little aesthetic interest to him , and the female was so mutable , so much a function of its own motion , or that of light across it , that all static representation seemed to him doomed from the outset . |
| 17 | If any forester do find any trespasser wandering within his liberty … within the forest … and after hue and cry made to him to stand unto the peace , will not yield himself , but flee or resist … if the forester do kill any such offender , he shall not be impeached for this felony . |
| 18 | Whenever a trust is left , it can be left in precatory words so that someone may ask , enjoin , seek , or hope that the trustee should cause what has been entrusted to him to pass to the person the testator wished , just as he enjoined . |
| 19 | And so happy and excited that it did not occur to her to worry about the devastating effect Paula was having on Edward . |
| 20 | Corporal punishment amounts to anything done for the purposes of punishing the pupil , whether or not there ire other reasons for doing it , which would amount to a battery . |
| 21 | There are caves which seem to We went into the caverns and erm saw the petrified caves where they , the water drip on objects and however many years they build up a stone coating . |
| 22 | All of these factors seem to me to point to the desirability of the judgment being exercised by the local authority , with their unique knowledge of the facts , rather than by the courts . |
| 23 | Other similarities between the suicide and the anorexic seem to me to relate to the individual 's reactions to an impinging world . |
| 24 | it was too late to try and stop the marriage now , and it certainly had n't occurred to him to try at the time . |
| 25 | ‘ Would you kindly explain to me why you have allowed a confidential document belonging to me to fall into the hands of a junior member of my staff ? ’ |
| 26 | The diagnostic test needed is obviously something like the following : Given a situation where a phrase composed of adjective A and noun N can correctly apply to something perceived by the speaker , is it possible in principle to say the following truthfully : " This N is A " ? |
| 27 | Both victims were brought to him limp in the arms of their supporters and their condition appeared dire . |
| 28 | All these cases are distinguishable from , and indeed , inapplicable to , the present , which appears to us to fall within the general rule , that a consideration past and executed will support no other promise than such as would be implied by law . |
| 29 | As transcendent , God can not be located , since location applies to what exists in the universe we know . |
| 30 | Yeah yeah well it sounds sounds as though it 's possible you know you may have to I mean in the end you might have to sort of compromise it and actually do this valuation thing . |