Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all , I like to thank everyone who participated in the team selection . |
| 2 | I would also like to thank everyone who helped at the summer festivals : they are a valuable way to promote our branch as well as raising funds . |
| 3 | However , we can not stress enough how unusual it is to find anyone who conforms to the stereotyped Ms or Mr Trim image . |
| 4 | But he argues that the benefits were ‘ too small and too short-term for us to know what they meant in the long-term ’ . |
| 5 | The other of course we have to know what they want in the we want to know what they want in their ad . |
| 6 | Harry McLevy , Scottish organiser of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union , is in no doubt Timex is determined to strangle what he sees as the union 's legitimate activities . |
| 7 | Most of the children … had a verbal knowledge of how to select a book and how to find what they wanted in the right book once they had located it . |
| 8 | This terminological ambiguity symbolizes a basic contradiction embodied in the whole process of change which followed 1868 , a running tension between those who looked back and sought to revive what they saw as the best in Japanese tradition in the face of a Western onslaught , and those who looked to the future and were prepared to accommodate the values and techniques of their competitors , if only to compete effectively with them . |
| 9 | Thus Attoh Ahuma ( who was also known as a clergyman , the Revd S.R.B. Solomon ) joined with another local churchman , the Revd Eggijir Assam , to launch the Gold Coast Aborigine , in which they promised to redress what they saw as the colonial imbalance in the education of local Africans : |
| 10 | Athelstan sensed that , if he had known who they were before he answered the door , he would never have let them inside , or else would have taken measures to hide whatever he had in the house . |
| 11 | I lay there trying to square what I heard with the new enthusiasm derived from Edward and Laura , for I 'd left the Lodge around two in the morning , ready to set off with them the next day in search of the horizon . |
| 12 | Chaos was prevailing , in which part of the ritual was to douse everyone who emerged from the Bisus ' hut with buckets of water . |
| 13 | He has allowed The Art Newspaper to republish what he said in the Dalmatian ( therefore Croatian ) periodical Nedjeljna Dalmacija last 5 September , because , he says , everything he said then remains true today . |
| 14 | It can be seen as another outburst of dissatisfaction about the direction taken by the Cultural Revolution and the failure to eliminate what they saw as the rise of a ‘ Soviet Union type of privileged class ’ ( Brodsgaard 1981 : 753 ) . |
| 15 | It is against this background therefore that I would like to state what I see as the relevance of Christianity to political economy . |
| 16 | Theodora tried to remember what she knew of the geography of the place . |
| 17 | He decided not to appeal in order to highlight what he regards as the absurdity of the law in light of the increasing acceptability of direct and indirect contacts between Israelis and the PLO . |
| 18 | In reflecting on his own practices as an antiracist teacher , Philip Cohen too argues for more nuanced and localized initiatives to replace what he sees as the overly prescriptive and universalistic policies of the past . |
| 19 | They are typically determined to bring about change , to introduce reforms and to reverse what they see as the mistakes of the past . |
| 20 | Although I have used the term ‘ garments ’ here , you are of course free to design anything you like in the ORIGINAL shaping section if you have the knowledge to be able to do so . |
| 21 | The two boys , shrieking excitedly , chased it around the terrace , panicking it further , and to escape them it darted through the open doors into the palais . |
| 22 | The inside of the church of Sainte-Marie is oppressively ornate , and it is hard to imagine anyone who responds to the simple exterior of the building responding to the interior as well . |
| 23 | His son James said : ‘ I ca n't find words to express what I feel about the people who did this . |
| 24 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 25 | Nursery , but you 're not supposed to help yourself you know from the fridge . |
| 26 | But we do have to do everything he wants for the next month or so . ’ |
| 27 | Tribunals accept that an employee can sometimes be fairly dismissed for declining to do something which falls outside the scope of his existing contract , for example if , without good cause , he refuses during a business emergency to help out when it was realistic to ask him to do so . |
| 28 | People kept saying , ‘ Oh , well , the schools have got to justify everything they do to the public , they 've got to be accountable . ’ |
| 29 | His classmates started , started to curse erm to curse him and to humiliate him I think from the first or the second grade , and erm he was my friend , I had to , to fight for him . |
| 30 | Well , we really know whether you wanted us to put what we learned from the report what we 'd actually done that day as in just listing it as you said like a diary |