Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The supervising engineers were naturally unhappy and only his promise to catch up — and his reputation to back such a promise — prevented the companies from operating the clauses that allowed them to take over the work and reassign it . |
| 2 | The company that requires us to pay out the smallest subsidy will be given the franchise and allow to use or probably allow to decay a facility that 's been established over the years while it takes its profit and distributes them to its shareholders . |
| 3 | Three hours later , with most of us starving , the head waiter knocked on the door , threw Robson the keys and asked us to lock up the restaurant when we 'd finished . ’ |
| 4 | Consequently , early in 1985 we made a number of visits to schools in order to interview non-respondents and to request them to fill in the questionnaire orally . |
| 5 | He balled it , and used it to wipe up the mess . |
| 6 | Of course , Sar n't Major James Graham Biggleswade could n't exactly go back to Blighty and expect them to hang out the welcome mat in Fulham , not after that tricky bit of bloody buggering business down in the Falklands — oh , excuuuuse meeee , the Mal -bloody-buggering- vinas — back in ‘ 81 . |
| 7 | On 9 March , Coleman received a detailed encrypted message from Control setting up Operation Shakespeare , clearing his visit to Lebanon and instructing him to carry out the mission as Thomas Leavy , of Westinghouse Group W News . |
| 8 | We not only provide practice in analysing experiences , but give students a glimpse of a more humane society and urge them to push back the boundaries that inhibit them . ’ |
| 9 | Clive uses the Chevvy like a normal family car … he takes it to work and uses it to pick up the shopping . |
| 10 | I 'll phone my father-in-common-law and get him to look up the address the er postcode in his |
| 11 | The apartment 's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer from New York and ordered her to trick out the rooms in a horse-country olde-English Spy-Cartoons look , which had been done to extravagant perfection , but McIllvanney was none of those things . |
| 12 | My wife and I are staying at the Danieli , but she 's not been feeling well and urged me to take up the offer of an observer 's seat here . ’ |
| 13 | He looked suddenly suspicious that I was making fun of him , which I was n't , and grabbed me to look down the front of my dress . |
| 14 | ‘ And needed someone to carry on the family name and the title , to stop any distant relative from — ’ |
| 15 | Select a straight board which is wider than the base and use it to tamp down the concrete … |
| 16 | A good technique is to have a flip chart or white board , divide it with a line down the middle and ask someone to write up the arguments for and against . |
| 17 | Nor is it any more than the incidental music to a play that captured the composer 's imagination and inspired him to conjure up the ‘ goings on in the Magicked Athenian wood ’ . |
| 18 | The registers give the impression — in itself plausible — that Henry VII told his Council what he wanted and left it to work out the details . |
| 19 | ‘ Come with us and help us to beat back the Dark Ireland once again . ’ |
| 20 | What I have always said is that way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial , so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment , then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime . |
| 21 | We used to run direct to Kirkwall via and erm it was then that the post office caught hold of us and wanted us to take on the mails . |
| 22 | We try to formulate policies that 'll meet the needs of the people who speak to us and then we use officers , not to make necessarily proposals on policies , but to help us to work out the financial ways of achieving those policies , so that 's almost the other way round from the way that John outlined . |
| 23 | He gives us clues as to how to complete the jigsaw , but leaves us to fill in the missing pieces . |