Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great efforts would be needed to restore the party to its strong position of 1914 and to carry on with the fundamental changes that had been under way then , but the war years had done no lasting damage . |
| 2 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 3 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 4 | Starting with a bank loan of £4,000 , Roddick had no time to sit down in the early years and draw up a grandiose mission of what her organisation should set out to achieve . |
| 5 | He heaved again at the floor plate and there was room for his feet to slide down towards the blurred stones between the sleepers . |
| 6 | They refuse to go along with the current vogues to which the impressionable Continentals pander . |
| 7 | In such an optimistic climate it was easier for national governments and interest groups to go along with the economic ambitions of the EEC ; it was not seen as a great threat to their own concerns . |
| 8 | While Judith , Rachel and Karen are sure their partners are happy to go along with the little alterations they try to make , Zelda says that interfering too much can prove to be very dangerous to a relationship . |
| 9 | ‘ She 'll have to go down in the fattening fields with the cows . ’ |
| 10 | In January of 1825 Barratt had decided upon an ambitious and costly project ; a deep adit level to be driven as a cross-cut , some 230 yds. downstream from Taylor 's Level into the eastern bank of Red Dell Beck and in a northerly direction , to come in below the old workings and to explore the vein , especially below that section expected to be opened up by Taylor 's . |
| 11 | With this as the acquired recording , it was exceedingly difficult — or so it seemed at the time — to slip down from the stress-filled beta-waves of everyday living , to those desired alpha-waves of mental quiet and healing . |
| 12 | In a way , failure to come through with the right steps is deception , because most social interaction is based on expectations of behaviour and to set up expectations and then thwart them must qualify as deception . |
| 13 | How long they had been ‘ carrying ’ their susceptibility to that cold around with them just waiting to meet up with the right bugs will depend upon the individual circumstances of each of them . |
| 14 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 15 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 16 | To come up with the right emotions for the President of the World , though hard work , was still so much easier than identifying her own . |
| 17 | Pete Waterman is making animated conversation at the bar After trying unsuccessfully to blackmail him with photographs of his dancing , we part company , wondering aloud if he would tart the programme up were Granada to come up with the big bucks . |
| 18 | Ordinary wild plants , it seems , are weedier than crops , but both have a long way to go to catch up with the real pests . |
| 19 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 20 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 21 | The verbal instructions are important — they will act as reminders in the days following the lesson and help the pupil to inhibit his natural tendency to slip back into the old habits . |
| 22 | ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy . |
| 23 | Another type of chart helps parents begin to stand back from the emotional reactions they have and see what is happening with their child . |
| 24 | For a more comprehensive list refer to books such as Guide to Reference Material by A. J. Walford , Guide to the Literature of Engineering , Mathematics and the Physical Sciences by S. Goldman and How to Find Out about the Social Sciences by G. A. Burrington . |
| 25 | Even in daylight it had a sombre , suspicious air as if it wished to slink back from the adjoining houses . |
| 26 | Erm , I 'm sorry to come back to the central overheads er again , but erm it , considering that the other income largely related to ninety one , I 'm a little unclear why the central costs went down , I ca n't believe there 's been any salary cuts at |
| 27 | In the Junior Singles final John Nolan of Blackrock looked almost certain to go through to the British Isles Championship when he led Belmont 's Paul Daly 20-11 . |
| 28 | The government 's response to mounting criticism was to crack down on the principal advocates of reform . |
| 29 | Charlton had the decency to colour up at the bare-faced plugs for his product that the worthy representing British Gas had been able to lever into his opening peroration . |
| 30 | Also , the jets of material associated with them seem certainly to shoot out from the rotational poles and to keep travelling that way ; were new planets to engage in the game of cosmic billiards they would have to shoot out equatorially from their ‘ parents ’ . |