Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [noun] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry . |
| 2 | A light , creamy Gentle Purifying Cleanser softens as it cleanses and the Gentle Moisturising Cream is easily absorbed to sooth the skin and offer long-lasting protection . |
| 3 | He does not mention the fact that the police banned the parade from the city centre , thus testing to destruction the resolve of the radicals to confront them . |
| 4 | The heights of Best 's career are easily brought to mind the night he destroyed Benfica in the 1966 European Cup quarter-finals , the night in 1967 in Belfast when he was sent off after single-handedly dismantling a superior Scotland side , and of course the famous night in 1968 when he led Manchester United to a European Cup victory in extra time . |
| 5 | In the absence of P , it has a shape which enables it to bind to S and convert it into A. However , a P molecule can also bind to the enzyme , typically at a site different from S. When it does so , it alters the shape of the enzyme so that it no longer binds to S. The binding of P to the enzyme is non-covalent , and hence readily reversible . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , in the potion laboratory , Mildred was desperately trying to overbalance the jar by climbing up the side and leaning on it . |
| 7 | Once sentenced to death the nightmare gets worse : very little care is taken with the inmate 's emotions . |
| 8 | Drama quickly reveals to children the effectiveness of language , building up their language resources and allowing them to develop an awareness of a whole range of linguistic choices and registers . |
| 9 | It formally returned to Japan the sovereignty she had lost in her atomic-bombed defeat , and enabled her to recommence her ambitious ascent towards economic supremacy — a climb which , though frustrated and corrupted before , was this time and at last to culminate in her present astonishing success . |
| 10 | Since these domains are physical , they act to provide the agent with objective probabilities producing subjective ( rather than individual , Bourdieu 1977 : 86–7 ) aspirations which are usually restricted to aims the agent has some prospect or accomplishing ( Bourdieu 1977 : 77 ) . |
| 11 | It also has to fact the threat of potential domestic unrest as the IMF structural economic reform programme it has adopted begins to bite . |
| 12 | Prizes also went to runners-up The Avenue comprehensive , Newton Aycliffe , and Hummersknott comprehensive , Darlington . |
| 13 | • Steigenberger Hotels , Germany : tactfully explains to guests the cost of energy and detergent in washing towels daily and invites them to re-use — if willing . |
| 14 | We would also commend to CCW the County Planning Officers ' Society 's recent pamphlet ‘ Planning for Sustainability ’ and the document ‘ Planning for a Greener Countryside ’ , published by the old Countryside Commission for England and Wales . |
| 15 | Such payments are properly chargeable to capital and not income and as the provision required that they be properly charged to income the relief was not available . |
| 16 | Tolkien himself thought that this bright ray was the Old English word far Venus , here applied to John the Baptist , herald of the Christ . |
| 17 | The last mill these waters powered was Awre Corn Mill , an old site in use at least since the time of the Domesday Survey , having reputedly belonged to Edward the Confessor . |
| 18 | Yet according to Rune the affair had ended more than six months ago . |
| 19 | The most likely explanation for the recent record levels of libel awards is that juries have confused these two functions , and part of the blame must lie with judges for having failed adequately to explain to juries the purpose of their damages award . |
| 20 | The United Nations was never intended to police the world . |
| 21 | Then it has to decide if it actually wants to shrink-wrap the stuff , and finally whether to go ahead and put together a marketing and distribution effort for the completed product . |
| 22 | A second strand in research of the 1960s was a consequence of the increasing focus upon processes which gave indications of the magnitude of human activity and also led to the inauguration of research investigations specifically designed to measure the magnitude of man by comparing man-modified and unmodified areas or by measuring one area before , during and after the effects of man . |
| 23 | Stephen had a meeting with the shop steward the following morning at 8.30 , and came back to the house afterwards shouting to Victor the butler for strong black coffee . |
| 24 | As a technology expert Vine-Lott takes no pleasure in saying that he warned that Taurus , the paperless sharedealing scheme that had to be abandoned earlier this year at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds was never going to work the way it was being developed . |
| 25 | ‘ My knee is never going to work the way it should , Seb , but the muscles of my leg are working much better , have you noticed ? |
| 26 | " He spent the whole winter in wasted effort " , while early in the new year his Rhineland civitates too fell to Louis the German . |