Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if God , embittered by the recalcitrance of humanity , has turned to behaving in the same manner as that imputed to him by the serpent in the Garden in its dialogue with the woman . |
| 2 | Which either means that somebody at my level or an M S three level or somebody , has got ta sign for the urgent work . |
| 3 | One kind of ray , the manta , has reverted to swimming in the surface waters . |
| 4 | He nevertheless insists that the " range of plausible " and " scale of valid " interpretations is constrained by the theory to which he adheres , although argument is admissible and he himself has progressed in understanding within the constraints imposed by the theory ( rejecting the PATH schema in favour of the BALANCE one ) . |
| 5 | In his letter to Labour MPs , Mr Foster has asked for backing on the grounds that he has seen the parliamentary party through the dark years , and now wants to guide them through better times . |
| 6 | A successful group of sponges has taken to boring into the shells of other organisms . |
| 7 | Sunday , BBC1 , 9.35pm LADY CHATTERLEY has taken to walking in the woods in episode two of this lavish adaptation of D H Lawrence 's love story . |
| 8 | Anyone who considers what has happened with regard to the sugar and milk quotas or to anything else about which we felt that we should have had a different package but could not achieve it will be aware of how dangerous it is to allow the negotiations to proceed quickly when a longer discussion might result in a better solution . |
| 9 | Health Secretary , Kenneth Clarke has insisted in continuing with the case , arguing that the government risked establishing a dangerous precedent if it paid compensation when the N H S was not to blame . |
| 10 | ACT include two players in their squad who are no strangers to Scotland — centre Jim Swan who has returned after playing in the junior teams at Gala , and flanker Mark McInnes , who toured with the Wallabies to Canada and France in 1989 and spent some time with Peebles . |
| 11 | cos er , you have to wait three days for it , and then cheque 's got ta clear in the bank , it 's like our Mark he had a cheque put in his , he had to wait three days before it cleared went in on the Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , do n't count Saturday , Sunday , Monday , cleared by Tuesday dinner time |
| 12 | And erm he goes , say I , say , we 've got a runner today , Peony , but erm the lad 's got ta go he 's got ta go into the weighing room , wa well he 's , get his form , fill it in the weight he 's got the jockey who rides him , that 's got ta be erm , forty five minutes before the race . |
| 13 | it means that your leg 's got ta go and it 's got ta go on the leg and all this ulcer |
| 14 | That 's got ta go in the |
| 15 | Well I do n't , mine 's got ta go in the cleaners |
| 16 | That 's got ta go in the kitchen Robert when you 've finished . |
| 17 | the balance was in our favour , we 're better off though it 's got ta go in the bank |
| 18 | that 's got ta go in the box |
| 19 | You 're gon na have that two hundred odd there rolling over , it 's got ta happen until the end of the programme and that is likely to take six , seven , eight years . |
| 20 | Well someone 's got ta liaise with the , someone 's got to make sure that re erm res are up-dated with rates |
| 21 | It 's he 's gone by ran across the road and went down that |