Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | £4bn to pull Industry out of the doldrums |
| 2 | In recent years there have certainly been dramatic moves to open sport up to the forces of the market . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel he should have the chance to sort things out with the Accounts Commission before we discuss anything . ’ |
| 4 | McLeish grunted , feeling meanly triumphant that he had turned out to be right in his view that Francesca would not be able to sweep Tristram out of the hands of the New York police in quite the Napoleonic way she had assumed . |
| 5 | Er they , there were seasons for all these things and then erm balls , we used to used to play balls up against the walls . |
| 6 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 7 | Incidentally , there 's another hotkey that disables this for 10 seconds , long enough for you to shut things down before the UPS leaps into action . |
| 8 | Unisys Corp , ICL and DEC were all very happy to see Unix out of the hands of AT&T/NCR . |
| 9 | In an effort to keep weight out of the eyes of the yacht , the stemhead roller may be unshipped when not in use and stowed away further aft . |
| 10 | Six months later Acheson indicated that the United States wished to keep Taiwan out of the hands of mainland China . |
| 11 | Many computer-aided machines have locks to keep workers out of the innards . |
| 12 | Instead of trying to compete head on with the likes of Our Price and HMV , he moved down-market , stocking cheaper CDs and tapes at prices starting at £2.99 . |
| 13 | In a separate study which Jenkins and Sherman quote , from the Institute of Manpower Studies at the University of Sussex , the estimate was that for there to be enough jobs created to keep unemployment down to the levels of the mid-1970s there would need to be growth in the gross domestic product ( GDP ) averaging 3.5 per cent per annum in the UK . |
| 14 | Supply would be regulated by a system of government licences analogous to those already in force for tobacco and alcohol ( and which would serve , among other things , to keep drugs out of the hands of children ) , backed by strict policing and heavy penalties . |
| 15 | It took a long , cold and drenching effort to clear the surfline before we were able to turn side on to the waves to make progress along the coast . |
| 16 | Tour sponsors Tetley Bitter have been unable to persuade customs to allow supplies in for the players . |
| 17 | He will even attempt to take bones out of the mouths of our two German Shepherd dogs , Nikki and Sheba . |
| 18 | The second circumstance is that planning legislation has given the Secretary of State the power to take applications out of the hands of local planning authorities and to decide them himself . |
| 19 | An electrically or tractor-belt-driven fan is used to blow air up through the bales or loose hay , which can be baled and carted quite green and at least a day sooner than normal hay . |
| 20 | And they were very fortunate it was a fine night and they were able to take refuge down among the reefs and the hole . |
| 21 | Traditional Irish combativeness was nowhere to be seen as they allowed Robert Jones and his back row to steer Wales out of the doldrums . |
| 22 | And barn owls are very inquisitive , as I discovered later when I began to take Dawn out into the fields . |
| 23 | Will the gainers be happy to hand money over to the losers ? |
| 24 | When the Duke of Montrose arranged for his own appointment as bailie of the regality of Glasgow in the winter of 1714/15 , in order to prevent the office from being obtained by his rival the Duke of Argyll , the object was not to make money out of the profits of the court but to increase the duke 's influence in the city of Glasgow . |
| 25 | I do n't forget how often you have threatened to throw Ben on to the streets ; knowing full well that if he went , I would go with him . |
| 26 | You tried to make patterns out of the flowers and ribbons on the wallpaper . |
| 27 | Information technology sales doubled to £92million as a result of the CASE takeover , though it is taking time to bring profitability up to the levels elsewhere in the group . |
| 28 | Censorship is a recurring problem in libraries , and there is no issue in librarianship which is more likely to bring libraries on to the pages of the Press , frequently in a damaging and trivial representation of the library profession . |
| 29 | We want to limit the amount of fees being charged , but also we want to bring security back to the pensioners . |
| 30 | There is a continuous passionate cry from Malcolm Ross in Exeter University to bring drama back to the Arts fold , a ‘ come-home-and-all-will-be-forgiven ’ gesture . |