Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The second solution is to try to carry ambiguities around in the form of constraints [ Sussman & steele , 1980 ] .
2 Had it not been for his desire to sound Eleanor out on the subject of Liza , he felt he could easily have done so .
3 Victoria was asleep and the detective paused a few yards away to swing Richard down to the ground .
4 The Taoiseach , Albert Reynolds , strongly supported the scheme to attract money back into the country , while it was opposed by the Finance Minister , Bertie Ahern , and most of the Labour Party Ministers in the Coalition Government .
5 All her creditors were asked to execute the Debt of Trust , and agree to accept payment out of the Trust Estate .
6 £4bn to pull Industry out of the doldrums
7 She had to face the fact that Phoebe was not , not then and not at any time , going to pull Maggie out from the night-time and into the daylight of loving and needing .
8 Clinton has vowed to assist the beleaguered Boris Yeltsin as he struggles to pull Russia out of the mire caused by decades of hardline Communist rule .
9 But the men in white arrived and began to pull Karen out of the room .
10 ‘ Labour and the Liberal Democrats want to pull Scotland out of the mainstream of the United Kingdom .
11 And if you think I 'm going to bail Sleet out with the money Francis left me when you ca n't even be bothered to learn the most basic elements of running an estate then you 're mistaken . ’
12 He 'd tried to frighten Jacqui off with the telephone messages and vicious note , but if she persisted …
13 National training in basic interviewing skills to be given to all police officers — this recognises the central role that confessions play in the police investigative strategy and the need to train officers out of the use of the ‘ persuasive techniques ’ , witnessed by the Commission 's researchers , which run the risk of producing unreliable evidence , in favour of a more open minded and even handed approach .
14 Often the set lunches are so cheap , in fact , that they work as a loss leader — a taster to tempt people back in the evening .
15 A recent report from the EOC found that ‘ overall the Youth Training Programme does little or nothing to widen girls ’ horizons or to provide ways out of the low-paid and dead-end jobs which are a feature of many women 's lives in Northern Ireland today ’ .
16 TYCOON Richard Branson told yesterday how he would run the country — after a poll showed he was tops to pull Britain out of the slump .
17 There are , however , several situations in which the Commission is bound to pass information on to the competition authorities of member states .
18 We filled that and while they were eating that we kept the hay , hay , cut it through a rick , a big thin knife , you know , fill the remainder of the racks with the hay , so that by the time they 'd gone and finished that they 'd gone in to eat the hay , then we 'd got the yard free to litter it out , and to straw it on both sides , one would be on the , one down on the bottom to pull straw down into the yard , and that was .
19 The 1988 Act allows open enrolment , so that schools are forced to accept children up to the limit of their capacity .
20 Some kind soul had forsaken the drama to escort Sandra out of the room and comfort her .
21 This philosophy is matched by the general willingness of the Nicaraguan people to accept ex-offenders back into the community .
22 Through these policies it was also hoped to pull women out of the work-place , by glorifying the role of nurturing , family women to reduce unemployment .
23 Jean Harlow , alias the teenager Harlean Carpenter from Kansas City , was doing all she could to pull Hollywood out of the slump but in general the more respectable critics were more prepared at this time to hand the plaudits to the male actors , who were seen very much as the cutting edge of the new realism .
24 That vast organization is as amorphous and as difficult to impose discipline on as the legislature ; from the most senior to some quite junior levels , there are many opportunities for bureaucrats to undermine and defeat a president 's purposes .
25 Most dealers , however anticipated something of the kind might happen once they were forbidden to sell clients out of the stock .
26 As a result banks may have to call in money from the discount houses , which , in turn being short of liquidity , have to sell bills back to the Bank of England ( acting as lender of last resort ) .
27 In recent years there have certainly been dramatic moves to open sport up to the forces of the market .
28 Tracy Kidder 's The Soul of a New Machine , Joe McGinniss ' earlier The Selling of the President combined ‘ new journalism ’ ( meticulous , participatory , eyewitness reporting ) with an acute business eye to create best-sellers out of the development of a computer and Richard Nixon 's use of advertising to get himself elected President .
29 Sometimes Moira had to lock customers out in the middle of the day in order to control the numbers inside .
30 ‘ I feel he should have the chance to sort things out with the Accounts Commission before we discuss anything . ’
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