Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has asked its owners to find a way to work within the restrictions . |
| 2 | Now , she added , the next hurdle for the team would be to find a sponsor to help with the expense of travelling to the championships . |
| 3 | There are few passenger-boat services up and down the Egyptian Nile railways and roads are quicker — but we hoped to find a felucca to hire for the day . |
| 4 | The gregarious owls were juveniles less than a year old just coming into breeding condition , but unable to find a place to nest in the plantation . |
| 5 | The King agreed to despatch a delegation to explain throughout the country the Vusela-2 report and its implications . |
| 6 | The story goes that their car broke down on the way to Larne , and they had to hitch a ride to get to the boat on time . |
| 7 | One approach is to hire a sociologist to peer into the black box ( the quotation from Heusch 1981 : 423 , and p. 46 in this book about the role of the sociologist is apposite here ) , in a similar way to anthropologists who sought to tell colonial administrators how to avoid irritating the people they governed ( although , according to Feuchtwang 1973 , the administrators did not take much notice of what they had to say ) . |
| 8 | A special meeting of the city council 's technical services committee has been called for Monday to discuss a plan to sell off the clinical incinerator plant at Duncrue . |
| 9 | As a result of this work the Coordinating Committee for Under Fives ( CCUF ) , an umbrella organisation of statutory and voluntary sector groups and individuals providing a service to under fives , decided to organise a conference to look at the issues of integration of special needs children within mainstream provision . |
| 10 | And they would like to buy a name to go with the millions . |
| 11 | The court has to decide what standard of care it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give to the child . |
| 12 | The overall increase in referral rates may seem disappointing to those who hoped that fundholding would provide a mechanism for reducing the demand for specialist care , but it was probably unrealistic to expect a shift to occur in the first year of the scheme . |
| 13 | Graham Game , a full-time green activist , hopes to win a commission to look at the dangers of a spill along the coast of Essex , the county 's prime natural asset . |
| 14 | The underthread for the lockstitch is provided by the bobbin , and the needle thread has to perform a loop to go around the bobbin which is held in a bobbin case under a slide plate . |
| 15 | Venture inside and you would be wise to wear a respirator to filter off the stench , and clothing that will protect you from the steady rain of droppings and urine that falls from the ceiling . |
| 16 | You can use the word ‘ turtle ’ to prompt a child to go into the turtle reactions to avoid impulsive aggression . |
| 17 | One is even tempted to propound a theorem to cope with the bewildering thickets of paradox obstructing every path , namely : every attempt to ameliorate nuclear doctrine in one respect produces an equal and opposite effect in some other respect . |
| 18 | In addition , they intend to lease a horse to run in the race and this should provide a novel angle if nothing else . |
| 19 | Trust Spittals not to miss a chance to get into the papers , thought Dexter with a snort . |
| 20 | To enable a business to buy in the shares of retiring directors or other shareholders who wish to realise their holding . |
| 21 | Could you please contact Mike Prior ( Assistant Garden Secretary ) on Monday or Tuesday of next week to arrange a date to work on the Admin file-server software transfer — I think it 's better if you deal direct with our Finance Department rather than through me . |
| 22 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 23 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 24 | She agreed to continue working and took the therapist 's advice to contact a solicitor to deal with the legal aspects of the separation . |
| 25 | Encouraging school governors to sample a school meal with the children and inviting the contractor to send a representative to talk about the meals service at the next governors ' meeting will also lead to positive action to improve the system . |
| 26 | Before the new master arrived , the Board found it necessary to appoint a sub-committee to enquire into the truth of a report which had been submitted to them ‘ which , if founded in truth , would affect the character of Mr. William Clark ’ . |
| 27 | " The Meeting Judge it proper and Expedient to appoint a Committee to investigate into the Deficiency in Militia Funds . " |
| 28 | The story is thus used to teach a child to respond like the wise old tortoise when the cue word ‘ turtle ’ is given . |
| 29 | The long term objective of this research is to develop a means to assist in the selection of appropriate problems . |
| 30 | you do not mind my taking this method of answering your letter and I hope that you , I did not put you to too much trouble to locate a recorder to listen to the tape , I am just too lazy to write it all down and think that what I have to say I can put it better in words than what I can on paper , I 'll let you do that part . |