Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frank Howard , defending , said Millman had been drinking to celebrate his birthday and expected his girlfriend to drive him home at the end of the night . |
| 2 | In the 1760s Catherine II of Russia had in self-defence to issue decrees ordering her subjects to petition her only through the appropriate officials and not by the direct personal presentation to her of their grievances and requests . |
| 3 | Is there a message for me from a garage ? ’ she changed her mind to rephrase it pleasantly to the man whom she 'd seen many times before and who , from his broad welcoming smile , she knew had remembered her . |
| 4 | The Haldane partisan , Morris , moreover , said openly that he defied Captain Cunningham and all his friends and supporters to remove him again from the town . |
| 5 | Alexander had smiled and risen to his feet to kiss her lightly on the cheek . |
| 6 | Elsewhere in the media world , LWT has come up with a new plan to restructure itself ahead of the new franchise auction in 1992 . |
| 7 | It was , in fact , a much beamier vessel than the police ship , the hull fining up sharply towards bow and stern so that both fore and aft her deep , strong wedge-shape would cause the ice to squeeze her upwards in the event of her being caught in a series of pressure ridges . |
| 8 | BR staff and preservationists pulled out all the stops to have everything right on the day even though they were hampered by high winds and heavy rain . |
| 9 | The only small mammal to make it even to the top 20 was the meerkat , cover star of our February 1987 issue and subject of Meerkats United , one of the most popular Wildlife on One programmes ever shown . |
| 10 | A plump old man sitting in a wooden scaffold on a marine building site sawed the top off an immense teak column to make it flush with the decking . |
| 11 | The acceptance of that affection would have automatically given that partner the right to carry it further into the realm of sex , where so often , so little affection is given . |
| 12 | He also gives sanctuary to Tom Gradgrind , and arranges for Childers to see him safely aboard the ship that is to take him to foreign parts . |
| 13 | At a PEN Canada benefit event in Toronto last month , Salman Rushdie was cordially embraced by the Ontario Premier Bob Rae , the first government leader to meet him publicly since the Iranian fatwa . |
| 14 | Now it was drawing to its end she gathered the courage to look him straight in the face . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll need some externals to tap you properly into the Dream . |
| 16 | The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | As to placing cable patterns , there is no need to have them all over the garment , unless it is a classic sports sweater . |
| 18 | He had n't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place , as she knew very well . |
| 19 | At first , like her many other activities , the home maintenance course at the Adult Education Centre had been just a desperate device to take her away from the boredom of George . |
| 20 | But it would be well for British business to remind itself occasionally of the message contained in Figure 1 ( page 60 ) : the fastest-growing markets are not in Europe . |
| 21 | ‘ I told you , there 's no need to say anything else on the matter , ’ Maggie replied . |
| 22 | If we are alert to textual detail — and all studies of the reverberations of imagery in the Miller 's Tale tell us that it is a tale that encourages us to be so ( see below ) — then we can also find a suggestive parallel between Absolon 's inability to detach himself entirely from the vulgarities of the human world and the Host 's failure to impose an elegantly hierarchical structure on the tale-telling competition . |
| 23 | The proposal on the Fifth Directive concerning the structure of public limited companies is based on Article 54 ( right for natural and legal persons to establish themselves freely in the Community ) . |
| 24 | On January 18th , there is a chance to find our more about the background to the pit closures dispute . |
| 25 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 26 | His arms had sunk in and he was twisting around , thrashing his head to keep it away from the wall — but it still sucked him in . ’ |
| 27 | The elder of the two leaned down from the saddle to clap him amiably on the shoulder , and said a word or two in his ear , before they trotted away along the Foregate towards the Horse Fair . |
| 28 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 29 | Junior wants granddaddy to carry him right to the car . ’ |
| 30 | I said that I thought it would be alright and made arrangements to meet him again at the church on the following Saturday afternoon to discuss details . |