Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't improve his nerves now to see me sitting on his carpet timing Casey 's phone rings with my stopwatch to work out the number he dialled . |
| 2 | kilometres per hour to work out the time it takes we do four thousand divided by three er eight hundred and fifty . |
| 3 | Yeah , past experience to find out the level they 're at at the moment . |
| 4 | Harper raised the cudgel to drive away the beggars who swarmed ever more threateningly the closer they got to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond 's rented house . |
| 5 | The Conservative Party ( CP ) , which won 31 per cent of the vote in white elections in September 1989 [ see p. 36880 ] , declared that de Klerk had no mandate to carry out the changes he had predicted and therefore should resign . |
| 6 | ‘ that a person who has entered into the contract may either affirm or avoid such contract after the duress has ceased ; and if he has so voluntarily acted under it with a full knowledge of all the circumstances he may be held bound on the ground of ratification , or if , after escaping from the duress , he takes no steps to set aside the transaction he may be found to have affirmed it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ So , yes , I would be prepared to resist any kind of armed attempt to take away the liberty which I have to determine my own way in the future . ’ |
| 8 | The Conservative Party took the rare step of disclosing the amounts after Prime Minister John Major faced a demand from Labour leader John Smith to change the law , forcing political parties to make public the donations they received . |
| 9 | Attempts to track down the culprits who leaked information were commonly unsuccessful ; the photo-copier is a great help to those who wish to be disloyal . |
| 10 | There are , of course , all sorts of chandeliers available for traditional rooms in brass , iron , wood , wrought iron and crystal , but again the effect can be enhanced by recessed downlights set in the ceiling to light up the chandelier itself . |
| 11 | Well I think it 's best to , yeah yeah , I mean o the best thing to do is actually lift it up and use a little bit of the underneath to try out the colours what colour 's that going to be ? |
| 12 | Publishing tycoon , Robert Maxwell , and his family plan to buy out the shares they do not own in Pergamon AGB . |
| 13 | They 'll continue their campaign to win back the security they 'd worked a whole lifetime for . |
| 14 | If this resulted from a positive proposal to shut down the unit it could not lawfully have been brought about unless the district health authority had first consulted the community health council . |
| 15 | Working flat out during the day , and immersed in reams of paperwork during the night , Ross had been totally absorbed in his battle to fight off the sharks who were attacking his financial empire . |
| 16 | We have also set up a couple of microphones in the real of the hall to break up the echoes which would otherwise bounce off that wall . ’ |
| 17 | I am attracted to artists needing assistance to bring out the talent which is already there . |
| 18 | No need to see again the possessions she was leaving . |
| 19 | Coming down from the Col de la Pierre-Saint-Martin there is no need to drive back the way you came , through Arette , because five miles from the top you can fork off to the right and come down in sylvan splendour through the very heart of the Forêt d'lssaux , before either turning sharp left down the valley of the Lourdios and a not very good road to Issor , or carrying straight on to follow one of two better , more or less interchangeable roads back into the valley of the Aspe near Bedous . |
| 20 | Codetermination — the right of workers to help direct the firms they work in was a major preoccupation of German trade unions in the years after the war ( chapter 6 ) . |
| 21 | LEADING lung cancer specialist Ray Donnelly has called for more cash to wipe out the disease which kills 1,600 Merseysiders every year . |
| 22 | Many of the failures of rent review clauses result from a failure to consider carefully the object which the clause is designed to achieve . |
| 23 | Presumably that is why Philip chose precisely that moment to raise again the spectre which was to haunt the Old King 's last years . |
| 24 | If a landlord refuses to comply with a repair notice the local authority now has increased powers to carry out the repairs itself and recover the costs through sequestration of rents . |
| 25 | Er and seek good qualified er Consultants to carry out the work which could be deliberated on by the various Committees of the County Council and the District and that work has been done and I think if I saw anything Chairman from the meeting on the twenty second of December at St Albans , it was that form very first time three political parties took up the policy and they started to address particular issues er er er we believe less measures partaken . |
| 26 | Mathers twisted his head to pull off the bite he 'd taken ; he chewed for a while . |
| 27 | Only in this case Italians do not want to stop the flood — on the contrary , it is seen as the first real chance to clean out the corruption which is endemic in the system . |
| 28 | A hundred million pounds was advanced by the British government for tenants to buy out the farms they rented from the landlords . |
| 29 | She returned with the FPL to take over the town which has now been incorporated into the Chalatenango controlled zone : |
| 30 | The only thing , other thing is we 've been you know debating about the er stuff to make up the wax which we 'll have to go to Morrells by all , and get it sent here |