Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments .
2 ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . )
3 That this person should harbour aggressive feelings towards you is unimaginable , but then suddenly , she goes to poke you in the eye — and you blink .
4 JEWKES : But she sits cooling herself in the hall over against the staircase .
5 This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth .
6 The fact that a person against whom an order is sought has received nothing under the transaction resulting from or , as the case may be , constituting the contravention may be relevant to discretion but is not , in my judgment , relevant to the power of the court to make the order .
7 As far as I know , the Canadian Rugby Union has received nothing for the development , or even the maintenance , of our cash-strapped programme .
8 At one extreme is the person who starts a diet every morning and has broken it by the evening .
9 That play has as an epigraph a Christian equivalent of the escape through ‘ Shantih ’ from the cycles of creation : ‘ Hence the soul can not be possessed of the divine union , until it has divested itself of the love of created beings . ’
10 Occasionally in the pursuit of profit he has to sacrifice himself to the ordeal of a business lunch with a customer , supplier or business contact .
11 When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock .
12 Yeah she said she has to wear them for the television
13 MR JOHN MacGregor , the Education Secretary , has distanced himself from the Government 's loans scheme for students by appointing the two most junior ministers at the Department of Education and Science to sit on the parliamentary committee discussing the Education ( Student Loans ) Bill .
14 However , because of their wide scope , when judging such clauses under s 3 of the UCTA , one has to treat them on the basis that they exclude or restrict liability for total failure to perform by reason of wilful default .
15 I am glad that she has joined us for the debate .
16 ‘ Captain Aranyos wants to see you in the south chapel of the Stefansdom at three o'clock , ’ she blurted before he had the opportunity to broach the subject .
17 But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) .
18 I think the first evidence we have of that , is when Brocklehurst has placed her on the stool and publicly humiliated her .
19 It is your enthusiasm , dedication and sheer hard work which has placed us at the forefront of our industry .
20 He care for the whole of mankind and has given us in the Bible a guide-book by which to live .
21 Check the output which CREFDL has given you against the example of a successful run of the command file as shown in Figure 2.1 .
22 ‘ It has devastated everyone in the organisation .
23 Agnes nodded and smiled at her ; then , as Nan came behind the counter , she whispered to her , ‘ His lordship has reminded me of the time .
24 ‘ a very long boy , with a very little head , and an open mouth of disproportionate capacity ’ , devotedly attached to Betty Higden who has rescued him from the workhouse in which he has been brought up , having been a foundling child .
25 Michael Mills ’ production , always avoiding the self-consciously funny , has caught something of the style — and I choose the comparison with due care — of Laurel and Hardy . ’
26 He wants to provide us with the insight from his word and the power from his Holy Spirit that our lives should be transformed .
27 Does not my hon. Friend consider it surprising that the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) , who always wants to lecture us about the rule of law although we certainly need no lectures about it from him , comes to the House with , I think , two cases where crookedness was involved ?
28 So far as teachers are concerned , it might be necessary to tap a pupil on the shoulder to point out that s/he has dropped something on the floor , or to grab hold of a pupil to prevent an assault by that pupil on another .
29 ‘ Captain Maestrangelo , ’ he said , filling his pipe rapidly and efficiently , ‘ needs to know something about the family , everything about the family , in fact , and quickly . ’
30 PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level .
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