Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A worthwhile person is always confident : he does not feel uncertain about the effects of his actions or doubt his ability to do the right thing . |
| 2 | As each name is recited by the Lord Chancellor , the recipient steps forward , bows slightly , and kneels or inclines his head to receive the award . |
| 3 | The fact that Carlo was sitting next to her , overhearing the conversation , indolently gazing round the table or raising his glass to sip the delights of the Princesse 's cellar , only made things worse . |
| 4 | ‘ I wondered if there were any external pressures that led your husband to make the change . ’ |
| 5 | Something told her that turning her head to locate the source of that laugh would be a really bad idea from the pain side of things . |
| 6 | Nevertheless he did not base his decision upon section 25 , but held that the sellers ' lien was defeated because the sellers , who knew in advance of the sub-sale , had assented to it in a way that indicated their intention to forego the lien . |
| 7 | Television news has three significant characteristics that affect its ability to influence the electorate . |
| 8 | The final events that lead our dieter to break the diet are quite concrete , namely , walking into a café , seeing and smelling the pastries , and seeing other people happily enjoying them . |
| 9 | In 1980 , ITV 's governing body , the former IBA , decreed that ATV would change its financial structure , build a new studio centre in the East Midlands and change its name to reflect the region it served . |
| 10 | And , do not forget , only a few months earlier , in a restaurant filled with sophisticated diners , the same Balestre had stood up and bared his torso to show the scars of an ancient surgical operation . |
| 11 | They block the rear view of the road and make our quest to recover the tabs all the more difficult . |
| 12 | Rachel even thought of going down to Phoebe 's bed room and using her phone to reassure the outside world , and protect themselves from its invasion . |
| 13 | ‘ And after that , ’ Woolley said , ‘ you will come back here and stop the German air force from examining the hole which their artillery has just blown in the British Line , a hole about the size of Lancashire , and that will be the biggest waste of time of all , because the German Army found that hole an hour ago , and is now galloping through it as fast as its little legs will carry it , heading in the direction of … ’ he snipped the final toe-nail and straightened his leg to study the fault' … us . ’ |
| 14 | She described again and again how they went to India in the early 1920s and returned in the Depression , his work as an electrician in the mines , poverty , living in digs with the old soldier who polished the shoes and got my brother to put the finishing kaybosh on them . |
| 15 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 16 | Then she remembered he was on call , and used his phone to ring the hospital . |
| 17 | He pulled off his mask and used his transceiver to call the bridge . |
| 18 | Human beings turned out to be more intelligent than dandelions and modified their behaviour to match the new circumstances . |
| 19 | ‘ Postmodern knowledge ’ , says Jean-François Lyotard , ‘ refines our sensibility to difference and reinforces our ability to tolerate the incommensurable ’ ( Postmodern Condition , p. xxv ) . |
| 20 | He rolled onto the bed beside her , and his own tightly curbed control began to weaken as he slipped a hand over one of her breasts and bent his head to kiss the other . |
| 21 | He admires the work of the PFA and wants his association to win the same respect . |
| 22 | It was Lord Clive of India who bought the estate in 1760 from Lord Herbert ( he had already acquired the Walcot estate to add to his patrimony of Styche ) , and directed his agent to improve the whole property . |
| 23 | She gave a short laugh , and dropped her head to study the menu , conscious of his amused eyes lingering reflectively on her as she kept her gaze determinedly averted . |
| 24 | Another policeman came along at 9.40pm and radioed his control to contact the RAC again . |
| 25 | The practitioner should then tell the police : ‘ I will certainly contact my client , or his solicitor if he has one , and seek his permission to supply the information and , if necessary , answer your questions . ’ |
| 26 | There was a gentle breeze and from time to time Meg paused and lifted her head to feel the warmth of the sun and the sweet-smelling air moving against her cheeks . |
| 27 | She had run a sportswear business from a shop in Nottingham and allowed her brother to use the premises , the court heard . |
| 28 | The purpose of the workshop was to examine the 1989 Fair Employment Act and assess its capacity to counter the structural nature of discrimination in West Belfast . |
| 29 | He blinked and shook his head to bring the room back into focus . |
| 30 | I rushed outside , looked up and opened my mouth to let the flakes drop in . |