Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They returned to the room where she explained about Philpott 's heart attack and his subsequent convalescence at the Bellevue Hospital where he would remain for the next few days . |
| 2 | So erm how did it , did you stay for the full six months or did it er extend further than that ? |
| 3 | Our fascinating day among the gentle giants is completed by a drive down to Los Angeles where we will stay for the next two nights in the Anaheim area of the city . |
| 4 | He was starting to appear distinctly shopworn , Lucy noted ; he seemed to have bought himself a new shirt , but a dip-through in a hotel washbasin did n't exactly make for the best possible finish . |
| 5 | This enabled the party to put across its message more efficiently and effectively than would otherwise have been the case , and helped compensate for the other serious communications difficulties within the country . |
| 6 | However , this does not imply that BT will underperform during the next 12 months or that those shares which overperformed ( e.g. ICI with an abnormal return of +40 per cent ) will repeat their past performance . |
| 7 | Although a total prohibition exists for the third category above , special circumstances may exist for the first two services . |
| 8 | Active or REM sleep onset will persist for the first twelve months of life in normal infants . |
| 9 | The two suitcases represented everything she thought she would need for the next seven months at the Hamiltons ' , and it seemed like an odd way to be taking what might be a big step in her life . |
| 10 | ‘ But … how did she know about the poor old Colonel 's hip ? ’ |
| 11 | Does he know about the poor little kiddy ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ All I do know about the Spanish Civil War is it left a lot of scars that never healed . |
| 13 | Miss Hatherby explained in her dry , sibilant voice , that they were sent from Paris so that London ladies could know about the latest French fashions and have them copied . |
| 14 | Among the RAC 's five million members are approximately 3,000 motorists who will qualify for the new long service awards . |
| 15 | And remember — you 'll qualify for the special free gift overleaf once your Plan is in force ! |
| 16 | As soon as the passport came through , Coleman should wait for the first convenient lull in the fighting in Beirut and then leave immediately . |
| 17 | Half of Britain 's estate agents saw prices fall during the last three months . |
| 18 | So we moved the scheme to next year 's capital programme into this year 's capital programme , erm , very much a scheme on children 's services , which is also in these papers , where it was at that stage fairly clear that it would not commence during the current financial year . |
| 19 | For a honeymoon with an unhurried pace why not chug through the serene Victorian waterways of England on a 60′ canal barge ? |
| 20 | Furthermore , the LEF-1 binding site could functionally substitute for the bacterial DNA-bending protein integration host factor ( IHF ) , suggesting that the HMG box moiety could act to create higher order nucleoprotein structures by bringing together widely spaced binding sites . |
| 21 | Nor did they know of the old Swedish experiments attempting to make helium from hydrogen in the laboratory . |
| 22 | They did not know of the Indian hot springs nor of Chatterjee 's ideas . |
| 23 | The political system of South Korea underwent a momentous realignment on Jan. 22 , when it was announced that two of the country 's three main opposition parties , the Reunification Democratic Party ( RDP ) and the New Democratic Republican Party ( NDRP ) , would merge with the ruling Democratic Justice Party ( DJP ) to form a new conservative alliance . |
| 24 | It seemed likely that many isolated sections of the League of Youth would merge into the Young Communist League if the national organization were not restored . |
| 25 | Perhaps it 's only appropriate that the ultimate colonialist rip-off should translate into the cynical money-grabbing myth making of Christopher Columbus : The Discovery . |
| 26 | It was early yet , she noted , and , feeling in no hurry to start a day that might well fall into the same luckless category as yesterday and the day before and the day before that , she sat up and leant against the headboard . |
| 27 | As you straighten your hand the band will jump from the first two fingers on to the third and fourth ones . |
| 28 | Usually on a Friday afternoon I would retreat from the busy main office to my own private one which had been constructed in one corner of the large open room . |
| 29 | Few members of his own party believe the prime minister can survive until the next general election , due in 1992 . |
| 30 | His back catalogue is his best defence ; go and listen to it ( It is , incidentally , being reissued on vinyl ‘ as archive material ’ because Albini believes that the aluminium in CDs will oxidise in the next ten years and the medium — conveniently for record companies — will become defunct ) . |