Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 If you have a Pascal compiler you may wish to re-use , amend or string together various of the procedures within PITEST.PAS to produce your own routines e.g. you may wish to use the three options : create DC , update DC , and submit DC , to produce a routine enabling you to go through the whole create and submit procedure for DCs .
2 With a stick some eighteen inches long , you gave the first stick a tap at the point causing it to spring in the air .
3 The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) .
4 Chandos Herald , the Black Prince 's biographer , makes the prince reply to Charles V 's letter citing him to appear before the parlement of Paris by saying , ‘ Lords , by my faith it seems to me that the French think I am dead ; but if God gives me comfort , and I can get up from this bed , I will do them a great deal of harm even now , for God knows that they lack a good case , and they will have real cause to complain of me . ’
5 A debtor has no reasonable prospect of being able to pay a debt if the debt is not immediately payable and : ( i ) the petitioning creditor has served on the debtor a statutory demand in the prescribed form requiring him to establish to the satisfaction of the creditor that there is a reasonable prospect that the debtor will be able to pay the debt when it falls due , ( ii ) at least three weeks have elapsed since the demand was served , and ( iii ) the demand has neither been complied with nor set aside ( s268(2) ) .
6 A written invitation was sent to 10 patients for each doctor asking them to participate in the study .
7 Mike Atherton , too , came quietly back , and Tim Munton got his first Test cap , DeFreitas 's groin injury forcing him to withdraw from the squad .
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