Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 2 | This is a tricky exercise , but easier if you keep your glove at arm level , shield the bird from the wind with your body , and do n't try to jump down the last foot or two , and so jar the bird . |
| 3 | If the Minister is saying that the proposal is liable to bog down the entire system and cause administrative chaos , he may be right as regards some of the effects . |
| 4 | Ted resumed the operation of the cabin and tried to shake off the depressing atmosphere that now pervaded the small room . |
| 5 | I very much hope that the hospital to which the hon. Gentleman referred will be able to consolidate further the remarkable progress that it has made over the past couple of years — a 56 per cent . |
| 6 | To sum up the hybrid theory that has emerged : it is that non-reinforced pre-exposure to a stimulus will allow the formation of potentially interfering associations and bring about a loss of associability . |
| 7 | For example , we may wish to pass both the retail price and the discount percentage . |
| 8 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 9 | And would be more so when she could steel herself to pinch out the little chin and make it weak . |
| 10 | In 1987 she advertised for ‘ guinea pigs ’ to try out the three-week diet and fill in questionnaires . |
| 11 | Just when it looked like the proverbial music centre was to disappear out the front door and into the sheriff 's van , Rough managed to contact his solicitors who paid the £250 Rough owed to an Edinburgh Sports Company . |
| 12 | Properly discounting the three notorious rescue cases , we can cite its performance along with the Spanish , American , French and Italian examples as evidence to bear out the theoretical expectation that industrial co-operatives should perform at least as well as conventionally organised businesses ; and that the extra that Co-operation has to offer as an ingredient necessary to full success , a potential in motivation , is indeed available to help industrial co-operatives out-perform conventional businesses . |
| 13 | Bramah quotes Grant Richards as having enquired in the Times Literary Supplement , ‘ Is there really such a person as Ernest Bramah ? ’ and ( Dame ) E. Rose Macaulay [ q.v. ] as having written in the Nation and Athenaeum , ‘ The crude stilted Conan Doylish English of the detective stories certainly goes far to bear out the common theory that Ernest Bramah has a literary dual personality . ’ |
| 14 | So the usual thing eventually after five months waiting for payment is to find out the bloody solicitor that told them this you see and inform the the solicitors that er his client has not yet paid us and we it ought to be done and eventually that 's how we get the money . |
| 15 | PATRICK ROBERTSON was born in Edinburgh at 11.22pm on October 19 , 1968 ( he recently wrote to the hospital to find out the precise hour and minute for his astrologer ) . |
| 16 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 17 | Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again . |
| 18 | It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit . |
| 19 | However , for the best effect , you do need to work out the right size and shape for your arrangement , choose appropriate containers and know which colours of flowers go well together . |
| 20 | Management would say nothing after the talks , but John Kydd , divisional organiser of the AEEU , said the company had effectively delivered an ultimatum to the union to accept virtually the same package as was rejected by sacked workers nearly two weeks ago or the factory could close . |
| 21 | Creditors may vote to accept or not to accept either the voluntary liquidation or liquidator . |
| 22 | You 'd all decided to meet again the following week and she counted the days because she was longing to be with you again . |
| 23 | As described by one character , this catch-all phrase is ‘ a short way of saying that they do n't claim to find either the ultimate cause or the ultimate cure , but they do know exactly how it functions , and can prescribe accordingly ’ ( 149/151 ) . |
| 24 | Living so close to him , she understood ; she was beginning to see not the disfiguring scar and limp , but instead the essential Neil , who was so kind to herself — for all his teasing of her — and to Matey and his poor patients . |
| 25 | Identification of polymer samples can be made by making use of the ‘ finger-print ’ region , where it is least likely for one polymer to exhibit exactly the same spectrum as another . |
| 26 | Close by a couple were kissing , holding each other close to ward off the cold wind that had sprung up . |
| 27 | She hoisted her umbrella to ward off the light drizzle that had started to fall , gave me a couple of twenty-pound notes , said she 'd look forward to seeing me on Friday , kissed my cheek , then went off to do her shopping . |
| 28 | The climate is good , not too hot but with brilliant sunshine to set off the vivid colouring and give shade and modelling to the arcaded treatment of façades . |
| 29 | He instructed his panic-stricken , guilt-ridden wife to pack up Kemp 's clothes in a suitcase , and to clean up the bloody mess that must have been left on the carpet , and probably on the sheets . |
| 30 | Little boys of seven , bandy-legged as old men expertly running for cover , little girls of five or six remembering , more often than not , to pick up the new baby and last year 's baby , to grab the two-year-old , the three-year-old before they ran off too . |