Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cardigans and coats are difficult because your child has to approach them from the wrong side . |
| 2 | I 'm the female lead , the hero has to get me at the end . |
| 3 | I asked her , " Would you mind if I have a boyfriend ? " and she said " It depends " and I said " What if I said somebody wanted to take me to the pictures ? " and it was , " If a boy wants to take you to the pictures , he 's only alter one thing . |
| 4 | However , the museum plans to display it in the spring in the Egyptian galleries . |
| 5 | The Department of Transport wants to ban them from the ancient route for sixty days a year . |
| 6 | Daddy has to leave it at the garage . |
| 7 | It is when we make an attempt to clarify it that the confidence begins to desert us in the face of difficulties . |
| 8 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 9 | As an example , let's say a friend asks to see you in the morning before work because she wants to talk to you . |
| 10 | Mills ( 1980 ) argues that both initial and in-service teacher education fails to prepare them for the task . |
| 11 | Another potential voter starts to tell him about the car that went through his garden wall . |
| 12 | A local man offers to ferry me across the fjord and I am soon on the way to Holt . |
| 13 | Though its airs of faded grandeur seems to place it in the Anglo-Ireland of Molly Keane — a world of dwindling resources and sinking expectations — it is far from being another monument to the old Ascendancy ( ‘ Protestants on horseback ’ , as Brendan Behan once dubbed them ) . |
| 14 | The word serves to remind us of the importance of that element so far not introduced into the discussion : diplomacy . |
| 15 | A plane cabin tries to fool you with the same set-up , but suddenly it meets turbulence , bumps and jolts , and three hundred of you sit there thinking of the drop beneath . |
| 16 | All this is so rich , heady and fast-moving that the viewer has to take it on the narrator 's trust . |
| 17 | ‘ Shirley says the Gresham 's buyer likes to see it on the wall when he visits . |
| 18 | The Capital Plan for next year appears to treat it in the same way as capital receipts from sales , with the total being pooled and divided between the various programmes . |
| 19 | Instead of impressing its customers with the ease and convenience of , say , Microsoft 's ‘ Word ’ word-processing program , the company hopes to wow them with the way that ‘ Word ’ can incorporate charts or query a remote database for the latest sales figures . |
| 20 | Faith is thoroughly existential , but the moment-by-moment experience is never autonomous , nor is it awash in time , for memory serves to link it to the past . |
| 21 | In case we become aware of its tricks , the Ego tries to throw us off the scent , by projecting aspects of itself onto the outside world . |
| 22 | A recent pronouncement by a former Education Minister serves to remind us of the kind of thinking we must guard against . |
| 23 | The effect of this has been held to be that , even if the company omits to put them on the register they become members and holders of the number of shares stated . |
| 24 | The hound wakes , growls , shakes itself , and with a show of haste begins to pull us towards the four corners of the great morning . |
| 25 | ‘ The Palace wants to portray us in the worst possible light . |
| 26 | To create a separate agency for a particular task helps to remove it from the political arena . |
| 27 | I was just building up my first business then , and a thing like that is a bit like riding a roller-coaster — you need all the speed you can collect on the downhill runs to take you over the next hump . |