Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the present let me put it on record that the main hold-up has been with me , in setting up the Journal for printing . |
| 2 | Some will say that is fortunate , as the weather forecast for the weekend made it seem likely that it could have been the first ‘ one-day ’ final to span three days . |
| 3 | yes that 's quite , that 's the on , that 's the one , it 's the fourth page in , I have n't got page numbers , but it 's the last paragraph on the page of the paragraph for the publication do you know the page ? |
| 4 | I think there 's sufficient weighting on the course in art for the child to make it work … if you kill the word ‘ exam ’ and just call it a ‘ set piece ’ , and say ‘ This is the final piece of work I 'd like you to do ’ , and see if there 's a climax of five terms ' work , as opposed to some sort of insurmountable hurdle that only 20 per cent of the pupils can get over … ‘ if you do n't make a particularly good job of it , it only carries 40 per cent of the marks and you 've got 60 per cent for the coursework ‘ . |
| 5 | The examples that Shklovsky 's enthusiasm for the idea makes him choose in the early essays are extremely heterogeneous , and this heterogeneity makes him come close to spoiling the unique value of his case . |
| 6 | Collectors would give anything for the chance to hear him project his art to us from the clarity of a recording studio . |
| 7 | If it had n't been for the colonel letting me have this cottage for a peppercorn rent , God knows where I 'd be . ’ |
| 8 | For the moment let me repeat that what all this seems to point to as natural is the self-imposed exile which will allow the artist figure , whether Stephen or Joyce himself , to create a new world , with the language of the writer as his ticket , his lifeline , his rescue . |
| 9 | For the moment let us ignore the exchange rate and concentrate on changes in the rate of interest . |
| 10 | I shall be elaborating upon this point in a short while , but for the moment let us observe that fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete , ineffectual and impoverished . |
| 11 | For the moment let us focus on Said 's subsequent point that if Orientalism and anthropology derive from historicism , this is by no means a thing of the past : of more recent sciences , Said singles out in particular that of world history as practised by Braudel , Wallerstein , Anderson and Wolf , which he contends is still derived from the enterprise of Orientalism and its colluding companion anthropology , and which has refused to encounter and to interrogate its own relationship as a discipline to European imperialism . |
| 12 | For the moment let us take a look at the fortunes of the professionals , mostly unsung and unremembered , who played cricket or football for pay . |
| 13 | For the moment let us use the above expression for deriving Biot-Savart 's law . |
| 14 | I told myself I was waiting out there for the signals to let me know David and Leon had gone to bed , lights switched off at their bedroom windows , at least some movement of the curtains . |
| 15 | The New Zealand government looks after the Cook Islands , Niue and Tokelau ; the Americans have Samoa , and the British look after the four islands of the Pitcairn group , selling stamps for the islanders to help them keep up their revenues . |
| 16 | And as soon as she puts her head down out for the for the dog do you see , fighting , he used to put this V on her back , right at the back of the the the neck . |
| 17 | Supply problems during the war made it seem madness to postpone further the steps necessary to improve communications and construct strategic railways . |
| 18 | was doing all right , but Norway spruce was doing very badly , because during the war during the Wintertime do you see , there was only the Menai Straits , there and there was not much salt in the air . |
| 19 | Only once during the dispute did I hear the woman worker 's point of view publicly debated . |
| 20 | The pre-application visiting days are intended for students who want to find out more about the University to help them decide whether or not to apply . |
| 21 | to other things , we 've kind of veered of the , one of the subjects that we were er , we did get onto which was how the police and the courts er handle er well victims and indeed criminals , I wonder if I might conflate erm both those groups into one question , its a very broad question , but I wonder if you think by and large the police do a good job , erm button one for yes and button two for no , erm and the majority here say yes , seventy seventy people say yes the , the police do a good job and since we 've talked about the courts do you think the courts do a good job by and large ? , we 've been talking specifically about erm some of the more bizarre erm statements that have come from the bench , particularly in with reference to crimes erm , that have treated against women , well now , seventy nine say no , so the police comes thumbs up , but the courts are way down , now not surprisingly there are n't many representatives from the courts er amongst this hundred |
| 22 | His cruel and callous comments about the murder made me shiver . |
| 23 | ‘ About the Journal do you think William might edit it for us ? |
| 24 | And go through the fields , open a way through the field do you see . |
| 25 | After her death Jones planned to place the body in the car with the engine running and push the pipe through the window to make it look like suicide . |
| 26 | And the Indonesian , Malaysian and Singapore governments took steps to implement the planned levy on ships passing through the Strait to help them meet the costs of accidents and pollution [ see ED 56 ] . |
| 27 | The undergrowth , rhododendrons , brambles everything , had grown through the branches do you see . |
| 28 | Another warning jab of the gun through the seatback made him start , and he dropped a couple of coins at his feet . |
| 29 | All you have to do is grow a beard and look rugged , take a bunch of gullible kids from good homes , make their parents pay through the nose to let them sleep in bunks and eat beans , and then pretend that mundane things are difficult or unusual . |
| 30 | Okay Suzanne , now you had to slacken off the halyard to let me tie that last knot so if you could tighten it up again that will pull the sail up to the top of the mast . |