Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 2 | It must not brown , but should be left to bubble for a few seconds before being removed from the heat and left to settle . |
| 3 | Self and Citrine frequently had to sit through the same item of business as it made its way through three , or in extreme cases five , formal meetings of different bodies before being finally approved . |
| 4 | It was , you opened it and come out and shut , shut the door and you 'd lose the penny then they 'd got to go through the same operation with another penny , you know what I mean . |
| 5 | In this way he forces the reader to go through the same process of retrospective illumination that he himself has undergone . |
| 6 | The Dubliners had 58 runs to spare after a half century by Mark Cohen helped them reach 181 . |
| 7 | Carwyn desperately wanted to come through a few heats of the Pipeline Masters . |
| 8 | It became the Chancellor 's habit to interrupt his morning procession to work for a few minutes of Cabinet Room conversation with the Prime Minister . |
| 9 | Before dusk Holly and those who had arrived that day were taken to the Bath house to stand for a few moments beneath the trickle of lukewarm water . |
| 10 | Mustard should be allowed to stand for a few minutes after mixing and before serving to allow the flavour to develop , but mix little and often the flavour will be retained but the pungency will soon be lost . |
| 11 | Remove the meat from the pan and allow to stand for a few minutes before slicing . |
| 12 | Sprinkle the yeast over the water in a cup and leave to stand for a few minutes in a warm place before stirring to completely dissolve the yeast . |
| 13 | The son of Caerleon is a progressive type , apparently certain to come of a few pounds for that introduction , and should be good enough to take the Queen 's Own Yorkshire Dragoons Stakes . |
| 14 | As the genes in question appear to work in the same way in mice and people it should be possible to develop ways of detecting the genes in people at risk and discovering methods of implanting cells with the normal genes or blocking the action of the defective genes . |
| 15 | We might , therefore , expect them to work in the same sort of way as the visual system . |
| 16 | It argued that public-sector resources were substantial , ‘ but efforts need to be pulled together more effectively , and brought to bear in the same place at the same time ’ ( ibid . |
| 17 | Similarly , it is often the case that senior officials within the civil service all seem to come from the same sort of background . |
| 18 | Tamas had attempted to stand in the same constituency in the 1985 general election , but had been thwarted by what he had alleged to be communist manipulation of the candidate selection process [ see p. 33812-13 ] . |
| 19 | The same old commentators are wheeled from channel to channel to comment on the same snippets of film . |
| 20 | While it is certainly true that the central core never issued a single agreed programme , a considerable degree of cohesion does emerge from an examination of their critical writings , and an impression of shared novelistic values is suggested by their willingness ( to a greater or lesser extent ) to appear on the same platform at conferences on several occasions and to accept , however grudgingly , the ‘ nouveau roman ’ appellation . |
| 21 | In the final week , however , Waverley and Eildon are expected to appear on the same platform at public meetings . |
| 22 | And then there 're the classic multi-user applications , like sales order processing , where different users have to work on the same file at the same time . |
| 23 | Perhaps because horses are relatively large , and therefore hard to ignore , people tend to behave in the same way in the presence of a horse . |
| 24 | There was a movement in the undergrowth and a rabbit bobbed out into the clearing , settling to feed within a few feet of where he stood . |
| 25 | However , as before , No 7819 started in spectacular fashion only to falter on the latter part of the climb . |
| 26 | But she could never hope to participate to the same degree in his excitement and his passion . |
| 27 | It arranged for groups of identically qualified white and black applicants to apply for the same jobs in Chicago . |
| 28 | The walls of the craft began to buckle under the same kind of sideways force that was pressing in on her body . |
| 29 | Thought you might be able to help with a few snippets of case law . ’ |
| 30 | Stack claim that the gun is balanced for colour as well as brightness of the image but all the games seemed to play with the same degree of accuracy even with a black&white image . |