Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surveying the results of her handiwork , she stayed only long enough to see him scrabble for the safety of the bank . |
| 2 | No employer will willingly train a craftsman only to see him go down the road to work for another employer who has invested nothing in training . |
| 3 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 4 | And equally colleagues there is also , it 's true believe me , and normally there 's another one up there , a no smoking sign so please be restrained , if only to help me to get through the week with my voice which is usually very bad ! |
| 5 | In fact my chain was just long enough to let me get into the tiny bathroom , two feet from my mattress , to use the toilet . |
| 6 | I was knitting slowly , not feeling particularly well and the machine was good enough to let me know through the handle that there was a ‘ Hiccup ’ . |
| 7 | That way if one of the midfield does do themselves a mischief Rocky will have had some games at least ( I 'd rest Strachan personally to keep him going for the League campaign — which IMO is our best chnace of a European place [ we 're too unlucky in the cups ] ) . |
| 8 | There 's enough to keep me going for the week there is n't there ? |
| 9 | Physical attacks on leading government figures might at least disorganize the regime enough to force it to accede to the appeals for political reform which were once again coming from more moderate sections of public opinion . |
| 10 | Sleep-deprived subjects , however , improve their performance on the five-choice when subjected to white noise , as if arousal level in their cases was being raised sufficiently to allow them to cope with the demands of the task . |
| 11 | When the first contestant to go for the top prize , Marine Captain Richard MacCutchin who , oddly , specialized in haute cuisine , pulled it off by describing the ingredients of a royal banquet given by George VI to the president of France , three-quarters of American television sets were tuned in to watch him wrestle for the answers . |
| 12 | South West appointed the finance director only to have him vetoed by the Government on the grounds that he was caught up in a Department of Trade and Industry investigation . |
| 13 | In the Prose Edda , for instance , Aurvandill is a companion of the god Thórr , who loses a toe to frostbite only to have it thrown into the sky to become a star ; as one might have guessed from Christ , ‘ Earendel ’ is the old name of a star or planet . |
| 14 | Shaking with terror , Isabel put a hand to the wall in an attempt to hold on to something solid , only to have it scoot across the slimy surface , almost throwing her to the ground . |
| 15 | I heard enough to learn I featured in the conversation . |
| 16 | He brought you back here , and you stayed with him long enough to get him to part with the doge 's ring … ’ |
| 17 | Well I hope that I 've given you enough to get you started on the right tracks . |
| 18 | The thought sobered Rory slightly , but not enough to stop him going for the gun . |
| 19 | After a short , complicated conversation in our melange of languages , she left me to battle with my clothes and the shower , returning only to tell me to come to the house of Sheikha Grandmother . |
| 20 | The necks of the inverted bottles are dipped in a freezing brine which freezes the wine and sediment at the base of the cork sufficiently to make it adhere to the bottle 's inner-surface ; the dégorgeur can then bring the bottle back to its upright position without disturbing the sediment . |
| 21 | Whoever she was living with , roused by the smell of burning , had come downstairs to discover her slumped across the hearth with her head pressed up against a glowing electric fire . |
| 22 | Mr Fordy said : ‘ Our concern is not to catch them going over the bridge but to stop them going over the bridge . ’ |
| 23 | I know not to expect her to react in the way other dogs do , and she knows that I will look after her and she does n't have to be quite so independent . |
| 24 | In a small house , you might want to replace the bath with a shower to create more space ; in larger houses , you may be able to fit a shower unit elsewhere to help you cope with the early morning rush hour . |
| 25 | He opened one gate slowly , trying not to let it scrape on the gravel . |
| 26 | I found I had to get Dawn 's weight down much more than I 'd expected , or would have wished , just to persuade her to come for the food on my fist . |
| 27 | Well the first few levels are just to get you used to the game , but , the other 100 levels will test you to your limit with the addition of elevators , boiling acid , lasers , lava acid and anti-grav . |
| 28 | ONE AFTERNOON KĀLI BROUGHT THE COWS HOME EARLY AND CAME rushing over to ask me to go to the forest with her to collect a load of pine-needles . |
| 29 | The crowds incidentally , were congratulated on their demeanour ; ‘ the ropes were used seldomly to stop them crowding round the players and interfering with play ’ . |
| 30 | In one of the most tantalising promises yet made in the computer industry , Unix System Laboratories Inc is claiming that independent software vendors who port their applications to its Destiny desktop implementation of Unix SVR4 will only have to do so once to have it run on the disparate architectures of Intel Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc RISC , MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC , Hewlett-Packard Co PA RISC and IBM Corp 's RS/6000 RISC . |