Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 2 | A difference between McGregor and Tuckman seems to be that the former sees some groups as fixed in their poor behaviour , whereas the latter implies that groups tend to move out of the ineffective stages into more effective behaviour . |
| 3 | The DHAC and NILP supporters sought to get back into the chamber ; finding the doors locked , they got in through the mayor 's parlour and were joined in the gallery by Alderman Hegarty and Councillor Friel . |
| 4 | When Marc spoke his words seemed to grow out of the night itself . |
| 5 | Bolstered by Kierson 's flagrant ‘ one previous owner ’ Manc basslines and Mark Lester 's sterling drums , the songs manage to stand up amid the pop-funk ( con ) fusion that sometimes drifts in . |
| 6 | Bolstered by Kierson 's flagrant ‘ one previous owner ’ Manc basslines and Mark Lester 's sterling drums , the songs manage to stand up amid the pop-funk ( con ) fusion that sometimes drifts in . |
| 7 | And already the thin strands of cloud , the outer rings of the immense , whirling storm , begin to drift over the southern islands — Po Toi , Sung Kong , Waglan Island , the Ninepins — and the wind and the waves begin to bustle about in the harbours . |
| 8 | Cars began to draw up amid the rubble and whole families , 60 or 70 people in all , climbed out of them to view the silent barricade . |
| 9 | Members of the committee will see that savings continue to come through on the school meals service and this is to a very considerable extent , the result that the ethos of the previous Conversative administration which ran a tight ship and positively encourage deficiency . |
| 10 | Coal and nuclear power will be the most " readily available " energy sources when oil reserves start to run out in the middle of the 21st century , according to the latest projections by the World Energy Council ( WEC ) . |
| 11 | The morphology and size of dinosaurs appeared to change along with the vegetation . |
| 12 | The man might have seen us , Vern and me — he was trying to do a rough count , I could see his lips — but there were some screaming kids trying to push in behind the Germans and he had to go and sort them out . |
| 13 | Other shops hoping to move in to the complex include Rumbelows , Dorothy Perkins and H. Samuel . |
| 14 | Another type of chart helps parents begin to stand back from the emotional reactions they have and see what is happening with their child . |
| 15 | With a mother who was active in B'nai B'rith , Anne Barth was offered a place on one of the early Kindertransporte , but her parents decided to hold back in the faint hope that conditions would improve . |
| 16 | Not until kings grew weary of perambulating in bad weather over rough countryside from one provincial centre to another were judges appointed to branch out from the royal court on circuits known as eyres , listening to pleas and sorting out local problems . |
| 17 | The top 10 packages youngsters queued to try out at the show were : |
| 18 | Forced to convene yet another extraordinary meeting by sacked directors trying to get back on the board , Amalgamated Financial Investments has sent out a suitably apologetic letter to shareholders . |
| 19 | Among a series of films designed to cash in on the success of Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) , for example , was Seth Holt 's The Nanny ( 1965 ) , made with the visual flair of his earlier Hammer picture , Taste of Fear ( 1961 ) , and telling the powerful tale of two sisters , both dependent in their own way on the woman who brought them up , who pay no attention to the declarations of their son and nephew that it was nanny who killed his sister and now wants to kill him . |
| 20 | These icy cold droplets seemed to cut through to the bone as if to punish him for the way he was . |
| 21 | Buildings seemed to rise out of the desert . |
| 22 | Did n't fishermen like to go out into the middle of lakes to fish ? |
| 23 | On May 23 , 187 political prisoners were released , while defeated or deserting government troops began to drift back to the capital . |
| 24 | Most western European governments decided to hang on to the state monopoly in telecommunications networks ; their deregulatory ventures were to be very modest indeed — for example in allowing greater flexibility in renting or buying telephone handsets and other terminal equipment . |
| 25 | For example with education , it 'll be a terrible thing for education if the middle classes continue to contract out in the way that they are so we have a divorced system of independent education quite separate from the state system . |
| 26 | The British public has two days left to wake up to the gravity of the threat . |
| 27 | After the management fired the union leadership , initially 86 per cent of workers voted to go on with the strike , but eventually they were cajoled into a ‘ second union ’ started by white collar staff who wanted to cooperate with the company ( and many of whom were to receive rapid promotions from the grateful management — see also chapter 16 ) . |
| 28 | Mr Takeshita , who subsequently wangled a meeting with Mr Bush to chat about the SII talks , has spent the past couple of weeks trying to get back into the limelight . |
| 29 | Governments had to live up to the mythical images of themselves which were part of their acceptability . |
| 30 | To lose height pilots have to spiral down to the runway . |