Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That night I watched television and did some paperwork , amending the maps to include the newly named Black Destroyer Hill , writing a brief description of what I 'd done to the rabbits and logging both the effects of the bombs that I 'd used and the manufacture of the latest batch . |
| 2 | Nearly two generations have passed since Hollywood introduced the larger format ( incidentally not 16:9 ) in an attempt to halt the then falling box office revenues . |
| 3 | Ex- Peta elements in the army distrusted Sjahrir who created the elite Siliwangsi division as a highly professional force to counterbalance the largely out-of-control TKR . |
| 4 | We have witnessed a further attempt on the part of the Fascist element in Spain to supersede the democratically elected Government of the People of Spain by force of arms . |
| 5 | Dalziel 's gaze wandered suspiciously round the room as if seeking signs ‘ that someone had had the effrontery to deface the slightly peeling wall with festive decoration . |
| 6 | The generalized ability of B to evoke the newly trained CR ( of suppression ) is displayed in Fig. 5.6 . |
| 7 | The government responded by establishing another committee to investigate the carefully marshalled findings of the interdepartmental committee on the issues that attracted most public attention . |
| 8 | The subject was discussed at a meeting of members of the Jockey Club last week and spokesman David Pipe said today : ‘ The Stewards have asked the Disciplinary Committee to review the well rehearsed arguments and produce a report in due course . ’ |
| 9 | Indirect Rule with capital letters was born in Northern Nigeria in the first decade of the twentieth century , as a result of Sir Frederick Lugard 's compulsion to justify and elaborate in writing his decision to administer the newly conquered Fulani emirates by installing a British Resident at each of the emirate courts . |
| 10 | Middlesbrough councillors have agreed to give £1,000 to help the newly organised Teeside Ju-jitsu Club , which is introducing sessions in the town . |
| 11 | Much of the vessel is often black , and there seems a desire to emphasise the sharply defined contours which is to remain a feature of Greek ceramics , and mutatis mutandis of Greek art in general . |
| 12 | When not busy whipping crowds to a frenzy ( but more of the Skin 2 Rubber Ball later ) , they became the first band to play the newly re-opened Stone Pony Club in Asbury Park , New Jersey where , of course , BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN first launched his career . |
| 13 | IBM Corp is expected to make its long-awaited move to extend the widely used CICS — Customer Information Control System — transaction processing environment to Unix on September 22nd , the first day of the Unix Expo trade show in New York . |
| 14 | It is as if she has to create an impervious beauty , a mask to conceal the painfully damaged body beneath the clothes , just as her lips are always closed in these photographs to conceal her decayed teeth . |
| 15 | Cars at the bottom have to use roads awash with water to cross the appropriately named Hilperton Marsh . |
| 16 | In 1900 a writer in the Railway Magazine commented disapprovingly on Chinese efforts to man the newly opened Sung-Wu Railway : |
| 17 | The first one is to manufacture the people to buy the moderately priced poison that 's brewed in the second one . |
| 18 | Mr Yeltsin 's spokesman , Vyacheslav Kostikov , told reporters that the parliament , formally known as the Supreme Soviet , was trying ‘ to use any means to remove the lawfully elected president and open the way to power for the forces of revenge and totalitarian restoration . ’ |
| 19 | With a large dog , like a Rottweiler , it may be beyond the capability of the new owner to dominate the newly acquired adult dog . |
| 20 | It also gives me an excuse to mention the much neglected Silver speciality , drive lace . |
| 21 | Yet the revenue maintains that it was under no legal obligation to repay the wrongly extracted tax and in consequence is not liable to pay interest on the sum held by it between the date it received the money and the date of the order of Nolan J. If the revenue is right , it will be enriched by the interest on money to which it had no right during that period . |
| 22 | We are familiar with the complex societies of the insect world where we see the cooperation of many individuals of the same species to produce the highly organized colonies of the bees , ants and termites . |
| 23 | A particular coup for the firm was the contract to supply the rapidly expanding Marks and Spencer chain . |
| 24 | Lori waggled her fingers and sauntered off , obviously in no hurry to meet the patiently waiting Chuck . |
| 25 | Andrex cleaned up yesterday in a survey to find the best remembered TV commercial . |
| 26 | In his post-election Cabinet reshuffle Sandys was sent back to the Ministry of Supply to use his undoubted energies to create the much needed Ministry of Aviation . |
| 27 | And , of course , we all set our videos to record the much hyped South Bank Show special on The Smiths . |
| 28 | Workers pass it from mouth to mouth or gather one another 's excrement in order to reprocess the partially digested food and extract the last particle of nutriment from it . |
| 29 | After returning to Britain , they made a secret Concorde trip back to America to collect the supposedly stolen gems . |
| 30 | Keeping in mind what the person can and can not do unaided , the nursing interventions to achieve the mutually set goals could then be selected according to local circumstances and available resources . |