Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 2 | Now at this juncture here you would n't actually say what products you 're gon na do , cos you 're not gon na go back and say well I 'm thinking of er two hundred thousand pounds of convertible term assurance and we 're looking personal pension plan , but you 'll tell the guy you 're gon na go back to the branch , we 've got a variety of different things sir and what I wan na do is to go back to the branch and work on one or two ideas for you and then present them to you at some time in the future . |
| 3 | And what this section will do is stand back from the particularity of today ( though continuing to use it as an example ) and ask why economies develop such geographical variation and why their geographies are subject to change . |
| 4 | IF the BBC wants to secure its future the first thing it should do is cut down on the huge fees it pays to presenters . |
| 5 | There were no books in the room so all I could do was look out of the window and wait for the quarterly chimes from the Cathedral Clock . |
| 6 | ‘ Did she resent being passed over for the post ? ’ |
| 7 | He did n't like being tied up to the women . |
| 8 | What they do n't like is turning up at the House of Commons and having to do some work , because they ca n't stand the pressure . |
| 9 | I ca n't recall the routes up which I was dragged , but what I do remember is strolling back to the car under one of those hazy , purple , Peak District sunsets , contentedly weary and glowing with achievement — only to find that thieves had struck . |
| 10 | Third , how can this shift be played out in the portrayal of disabled people in relationship to their impairment so that they no longer see themselves as able-bodied people who are flawed . |
| 11 | Because the clergy were on the whole ministering to the poor , many of them could not avoid being caught up in the unrest , violence and fear . |
| 12 | How much money would be available , and how large would the capital grant be paid out from the fund to these eligible groups ? |
| 13 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 14 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 15 | I certainly would n't have been invited back to the Parsons ' , but I could have lived with that . |
| 16 | A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components : |
| 17 | Had the company decided to provide tax on the revaluation surplus , the provision would have been made out of the revaluation surplus , ie the tax would have followed the surplus ( SSAP 15 , para 39 ) . |
| 18 | PAUL MERSON may have been bombed out of the Arsenal team by George Graham for being overweight . |
| 19 | It is only too easy to forget that there was a time when the fragile flower of Glasgow culture might just as easily have been swept up by the great philistine scaffy man of indifference . |
| 20 | It could , because you could put and a sailing boat might have been pushed on by the tide . |
| 21 | Any irregularities in the universe would simply have been smoothed out by the expansion , as the wrinkles in a balloon are smoothed away when you blow it up . |
| 22 | The universe as a whole would have continued expanding and cooling , but in regions that were slightly denser than average , the expansion would have been slowed down by the extra gravitational attraction . |
| 23 | • The object may have been choked up in the child 's mouth . |
| 24 | ‘ It must have been blasted off at the weak point of the stalk , ’ the Environments Officer continued . |
| 25 | Looking coldly at the figures and at the Plafond Limité de Classement ( PLC ) of 13,000 kilograms per hectare , it would seem that most of Champagne 's production in those two years should have been sent off to the distillery . |
| 26 | They would have been locked out in the street . |
| 27 | Only later , when we saw the photographs , did we appreciate that Donnelly must have been magicked out of the car at the precise millisecond when the car exploded on impact . |
| 28 | At the connecting tunnel it would have been led out of the entrance to the East Shaft top by wooden launder . |
| 29 | That said , the Vet scene has charged his zest for running which otherwise might have been swallowed up in the 40-something concentration on family , career and mortgage . |
| 30 | Leeds were forced to play that third game against German champions Stuttgart , when the Bundesliga outfit should have been kicked out of the competition for fielding an ineligible player . |