Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 2 | You stand a better chance if you put something with the Sunday and even then that might not be completely enough to reach down to the crevices , but I think some method , and that 's why I suggested surgeries actually , was that we have to talk regularly to people face to face and once you 're in a room with people then it goes , does n't it ? |
| 3 | We have only to look back to the debates about language across the curriculum to remember the puerile arguments over whose responsibility it was to teach language skills . |
| 4 | We were a finely balanced investment , threatening constantly to topple over into the realms of demand and expenditure . |
| 5 | As Claud Mullins , a London magistrate , commented on the plight of separated women in 1935 : ‘ Day by day as I watch the women who come into court on summonses for arrears — probably the least attractive of all Police Court work — I sometimes wonder whether after all many of them would not have done better to put up with the ills they had , rather than to have placed their faith in court orders ’ . |
| 6 | The world No. 1 gave the tie her best , however , but even that was not enough to make up for the shortcomings of her second in command , Claudia Kohde- Kilsch . |
| 7 | Although people were allowed to eat other foods freely , in fact when they were deprived of their refined carbohydrates they tended not to increase their intake of these alternative foods very much — not enough to make up for the calories they were saving . |
| 8 | Chile is Britain 's oldest ally in the Southern Hemisphere … and the Falcons were determined not to miss out on the celebrations to mark the 75th birthday of the Royal Air Force . |
| 9 | Jochen and Elke warn Fabian not to go out on the streets on 7 October for the 40th anniversary of the formation of East Germany , and for God 's sake not to demonstrate . |
| 10 | He was unhappy there but , determined not to slip back into the pits where his grandfather had wielded a pick , worked hard and won scholarships both to Jesus College , Oxford , and the University College of Aberystwyth . |
| 11 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 12 | Mr Wilson said last night that they had talked to a lot of the villagers and were determined not to give in to the vandals . |
| 13 | As the carriage rolled down the driveway , Emily looked straight ahead , holding herself erect , determined not to give in to the tears that threatened to overflow . |
| 14 | So at the end of their dancing career many tried desperately to hang on to the fringes of the theatre world as did matron Daisy Woodworth . |
| 15 | Penry put out a hand , then dropped it , and with a strangled curse turned away to stride off over the cobbles of the arcade , an arresting figure in the autumn sunlight as he went out into the street without a backward glance for the girl watching him go . |
| 16 | Like my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth ( Mr. Tredinnick ) , I have personal views about some of those matters , but we should await the report , when we will have a little more to go on about the circumstances and how this could have happened . |
| 17 | Ted Walker astonishes with his honesty , and this autobiography bubbles with sane optimism , a refusal ever to give in to the temptations of self-pity . |
| 18 | Er with the new contracts that started in September erm basically it seems that some teachers are having to do bits of cleaning themselves to keep their their classroom up to up to scratch up to the standards they ought they ought to be . |
| 19 | With this firmly decided , she made her way up to change out of the trousers and sweater she had been wearing all that long day . |
| 20 | Even Captain Kirk has stopped pushing back the frontiers of the universe boldly to go on to the streets as a cop with the unlikely name of Hooker , a case of Starsky being put into a hutch . |
| 21 | Before the honourable gentleman goes any further it would be advantage really to get back to the boundaries Mr Graham G . |
| 22 | By night the lava lake presents an unearthly sight , with great slabs of dark , solidified crust shifting about slowly on the surface , allowing the bright lava underneath to gleam through along the cracks between slabs . |
| 23 | Coleridge had rolled in his sleep down the hill slope to within a few yards of the river , and when he woke up at dawn , he found he was unable to move or even to call out to the shepherds and workmen he could see near by . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the new wealth was subject to some control through institutions which were central to the image of Arab government ( household , lineage ) even if the wider groupings were likely eventually to break down under the pressures of differentiation . |
| 25 | ME AND THIS OLD FRIEND of mine are about to go out to the movies . |
| 26 | And was the water there to go down into the villages ? |
| 27 | To experience an exhilarating feeling of flight , imagine you are about to soar up into the clouds as your arms are thrust forward and backward in rhythmic motion . |
| 28 | Life is about to wriggle out of the arms of death itself . |
| 29 | He was just about to plunge back into the streets when he saw someone running towards him . |
| 30 | If so , the impact on the economy of the massive easing of policy since September ( slashing interest rates from 10% to 6% ) , has yet to show up in the figures . |