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

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31 Amazingly , the Million , which is restricted to the 250 yearlings sold at the Goffs Million sale the year before , will continue to clash with the Arc weekend because the sales it is tied to take place the week after .
32 The FT-SE Index crashed nearly 14 points to 2691.7 but the fall had more to do with the Maastricht jitters than America 's new President .
33 He remembered the tall thin red ones Zoe used to put in the silver candelabra when she was entertaining .
34 He turns , but the girl has managed to flee by the fire escape as Lepine makes his way to the bookstore .
35 In order to seal off the source of nutrition it is necessary for the activated lymphocytes to gather round the blood vessels once they have used up the local resources .
36 He was unable to sleep during the day , and used the dead time to keep up with the newspapers and journals in the reading-room and to swim in the club pool while it was comparatively empty .
37 We had no idea how long it would take to support ourselves or how far back you need to go in the food chain before you can become organic .
38 They are instantly welcomed inside ( Fig. 39 ) , and Nell 's grandfather is invited to sit in the elbow chair while the child looks around her :
39 Magistrates who deal with family matters have been specially trained and are not allowed to sit in the Family Court until that training has been completed .
40 The latter model depicts the imposition by an all-powerful , coercive capitalist state of enforced retirement on older workers who wish to continue in the labour market until , as in the nineteenth century , they are too infirm .
41 He told her that , like Liza , he was an only child , that his father owned a garage , that he had already started to follow in his footsteps and hoped to continue in the motor trade as soon as the war was over .
42 The ferret 's function is to frighten the rabbits so that they bolt out of the holes or to force them to retreat through the burrow system until they become cornered so that they can be dug out while the ferret holds them in that fixed position .
43 ‘ He used to be a very useful runner in his younger days , ’ Joe explained , ‘ used to run for the Gloucester Harriers so they say .
44 Would it be more sensible to intervene through the tax system than to regulate quantities directly ?
45 There was time to start on the parish magazines before the school bus came , a job which had reverted to Peter because he was not good at asking people to do things he did not like doing himself .
46 BRITAIN 'S leading slalom exponents face a tense battle for the right to compete at the Barcelona Olympics when they take part in first-past-the-post selection races on the Olympic course in Seu d'Urgell tomorrow and Sunday .
47 And i it may be , for instance , erm that he may even have to intervene at the modification stage if something was going seriously wrong .
48 Joan also hesitated to go to the Home Office as her father was a senior civil servant in line for further promotion and not too far from retirement .
49 The opt-out will be unsustainable and I applaud John 's sturdy determination to go to the Luxembourg Court if necessary to win the benefits from the new Social Chapter for British workers .
50 And remember to go to the video boutique if you have n't seen the videos recently .
51 I think probably , what we could do with is a some criteria as to what what complaints are going to go to the complaint examiner if we 've only got one of them .
52 McNealy says he is perfectly willing for NT to go on the Sparc RISC if Microsoft wants to port it .
53 MK Trafford Holdings failed in a takeover bid for Manchester United , which failed to float on the stock market as well as the pitch .
54 There is no need to turn off the water supply when rewashering a Supatap .
55 and was about to turn off the gas jets when her father appeared in the doorway .
56 He was to hold onto the window sash while cleaning .
57 Lost to a rich Jewish family who were eventually to die in the concentration camps after Hitler had promised to return the estate to his father for duties performed .
58 ‘ I 'm confident we have nothing to fear in the market place provided we continue to aim for the type of quality sheep that we have seen in the best forward at Stoneleigh . ’
59 And this observation carries over into the theory of employment : the labour market also clears , and any unemployment which remains is entirely the result of voluntary decisions by workers to withdraw from the labour market while still being officially classified as unemployed .
60 BYE-BYE BRITAIN WORLD champion Nigel Mansell waves goodbye to the Formula One racing circuit after this season — and the battling Brummie will also sell his £3million Isle of Man cliff-top mansion to live in the Florida sunshine as he joins superstar Paul Newman 's team
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