Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah it 's like with me , I mean of course do n't forget that I 've got a good two hundred pounds to come on about the fifth of December from the British Legion 's savings . |
| 2 | But what you are going to do now is to come underground with the two of us and sleep . |
| 3 | However , much of the hostility aroused by the subcommittee 's report appeared to be directed towards the United Kingdom government , which was widely accused of failing to stand up to the Chinese over Hong Kong 's future . |
| 4 | Sheppard was forced to pull out of the last of the British Grand Prix qualifying meets last month , thus losing her chance to defend the sprint freestyle title at the Superfinal in Cardiff in May , and she has still not returned to full training . |
| 5 | Far better to take it in stages , to concentrate purely on the shortest of short-term problems . |
| 6 | Much use was made of the memoirs which began to pour forth in the 1920s from figures at court and in the army , from foreign diplomats and correspondents , and from political leaders across the political spectrum . |
| 7 | Notwithstanding the merit and extent of his achievements , Gavin Hastings still retains the desire to reach out for the best of which he is capable with as yet undiminished zest : ‘ Unless you set yourself tasks and ambitions , unless you have new targets , there is n't much point in playing . |
| 8 | Accordingly we would have to play along with the British for the time being , and take the beating which inevitably results through our association with an ally whom the Egyptians and other Arab states hated as imperialists . |
| 9 | Does the Secretary of State agree that , to obtain a balanced view , we must consider not only unemployment but employment and self-employment , which grew steadily during the 1980s under the Government and is set to grow further in the 1990s under the same Government ? |
| 10 | The challenge now for the egg industry is to communicate this message to consumers ; to look forward to the 1990s with confidence in the knowledge that its product is the best in the world — not to waste time and money on the constant examination of its collective navel and on cries of ‘ not fair ’ . |
| 11 | and then you told me what to put in on the plated through and stuff ! |
| 12 | Despite the increase in the number of scholars studying the period , the same preoccupation with art-history and the origins of peoples persisted and continued to do so through the 1960s in studies of pottery ( Myres 1969 ; 1970 ) and metalwork ( Hawkes 1961 ; Hawkes and Dunning 1961 ) . |
| 13 | It 's a weird feeling to have only a layer of ice between you and the sea ; weirder still to drive out across the Baltic in a Volkswagen . |
| 14 | For Moore , on the occasion of his 105th appearance in England colours , it became a miserable exposure to the inevitability of decline , an uncharacteristic positional error enabling Lubanski to surge through for the second of Poland 's two goals ; the famed captain would play only three more times for his country , and not in the climax to the qualifying group , five months later at Wembley . |
| 15 | I have never been able to understand why anyone would want to wake up at the dead of night ( 5 a.m. ) to go and paddle a canoe , but I am assured that the challenge is worth it . |
| 16 | He was n't strong enough to get on to the par-5s in two for eagle chances , so he just chipped and putted for birdies . |
| 17 | Kenneth Grayston introduces an opportunity for graduates to get together at the latest in a series of University concerts . |
| 18 | Sadly , church people have often so dismally failed to get along with each other that they are powerless to get along with the needy in the world . |
| 19 | The ESC , however , threatened to stay away from the Civic in future if they had to make up the lost revenue . |
| 20 | Yes , that could , yes that could be quite tricky , and er well , not much more to say apart from the best of luck to both of you . |
| 21 | BNFL will seek to identify new projects for the site but the numbers of BNFL employees at Capenhurst are expected to fall significantly by the mid to late 1990s . |
| 22 | A retailer is required to distinguish clearly between the two in labelling and display . |