Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 This contained some very relevant names and addresses which the Pakistani owner had obviously tried to dispose of during the night , but in the confusion and darkness he had failed to realise it had not gone overboard . "
2 I mean the furore about actually leasing trains has taken several years to develop erm And you just have to look at at the moment now and he does n't know if he 's sinking or swimming basically .
3 Because still in 1988 , under the pressure of social instability and political crises , homosexuality could be regarded as a kind of privation or error , an ‘ inverted positivity ’ , an inimical , pernicious , inauthenticity always threatening to return from within the true and the authentic .
4 The issue becomes especially important where , as a result of questioning , and without the benefit of the correct conditions or the advice from the solicitor , access to whom has been wrongly denied , the suspect makes a damaging confession which the police later try to rely upon at the trial in order to secure a conviction .
5 Start thinking today what you would really like to work towards over the next few months and even years .
6 This is an issue which Western Governments and unions are only really beginning to grapple with in the context of the Single European market , and for many that is where the debate will stay for some time .
7 ‘ The month began quietly , but things really began to move from about the 10th onwards , and in terms of takings we recorded a couple of record days .
8 William Jardine [ q.v. ] described him as ‘ honest and liberal beyond what we generally meet with , or even expect to meet with in the general intercourse of business transactions ’ .
9 Erm by including conversions this time round I do n't see there 's any particular difference , we are giving the district a global figure for their districts , which they will then need to look at in the light of local circumstances .
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