Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the emancipation process , the authorities lacked the wherewithal to pay for the transference of land . |
| 2 | ‘ You passed the exam to get into the place , did n't you ? |
| 3 | I loved the programme and the people but I made the decision to leave at the right point , before I could grow bored . ’ |
| 4 | We made the decision to go despite the lack of an organized UK presence — we are on-air with a new series running from January to March 1991 and we wanted to make contacts before then , rather than wait for MIP-TV to come around in April . |
| 5 | ‘ I made the decision to come into the business to please my father when he was dying . |
| 6 | ‘ None of us expected the single to take off the way it did , ’ adds Dermot . |
| 7 | Until recently most pundits expected the market to improve in the spring of 1991 after stagnating next year . |
| 8 | After being so intimately associated with Christ and hearing his parables of the Kingdom and private commentary interpreting those stories , his disciples still expected the Kingdom to come in the material and nationalistic terms of the Old Testament ( Acts 1:6 ) . |
| 9 | She scraped her chair away from her desk and stared at it as if she expected the spider to jump through the lid . |
| 10 | She asked the court to refer to the European Court the question of whether Article 59 of the EC Treaty could be taken as meaning that a member state could bar the giving of information in its territory about services in another member state that were illegal in the first country . |
| 11 | Tammuz had dimmed the lights , put his feet up , and asked the computer to tune in the wall-screen . |
| 12 | Rachel asked the patient to sit in the small waiting area then turned as if to go and prepare herself to see to him . |
| 13 | And , reflecting the now-familiar language of the GCSE criteria , he asked the committee to look at the extent to which A levels test knowledge , understanding , and skills , and the implications of the assessment procedures for teaching and learning . |
| 14 | I was n't at all sure I was doing the right thing but I got up and started towards him as he finally got the clip to slide into the gun and snick home . |
| 15 | Helen Martin , our chairperson said , ‘ The Heatfest weekend was so important to us as tenants because for the very first time , the people who live in the damp houses got the opportunity to sit round the table with the people who in the past were responsible for creating the kinds of conditions that we are now forced to live in and we could say , hey look ! |
| 16 | The effect of this was that young fans rarely got the opportunity to travel on the Supporters ' Club coaches and , since travelling by British Rail was often a hazardous and expensive venture , alternative arrangements were needed . |
| 17 | Amazingly , he only got the chance to go for the try because Cardiff players over-ruled skipper Mike Hall . |
| 18 | Part II requested the Secretary-General to report to the next ( 46th ) session on the recommendations addressed to him by the Intergovernmental Expert Group to Study the Economic and Social Consequences of Illicit Traffic in Drugs convened under Resolution 44/142 of Dec. 15 , 1989 [ see p. 37434 ] . |
| 19 | Since the characters that helped the individual to succeed in the battle were the traditional Protestant virtues of enterprise , initiative and thrift , Spencer could project his philosophy as a new foundation for traditional morality , despite its tendency to encourage indifference to the suffering of those who still needed to be taught a lesson by a wise but harsh Nature . |
| 20 | Two pupils from Macmillan College in Middlesbrough showed Mr Fallon how they used the CDRom to search for the latest information about the fall of the Berlin Wall , the construction of the Channel Tunnel , and pollution in Teesside for their school projects . |
| 21 | A worried Bank of England used the weekend to negotiate for the Portuguese currency to start at a higher level than that planned on Friday , but it clearly was not high enough for the pound . |
| 22 | He used the occasion to display to the full his talent for description . |
| 23 | Macmillan used the comment to shrug off the resignations of Peter Thorneycroft , his Chancellor , Nigel Birch and Enoch Powell , over public spending . |
| 24 | When they could hold it no longer the Collector shouted the order to retire to the next door : that which led from the drawing-room to the hall and where , several weeks earlier , the Collector had been lurking as he tried to make up his mind to attend the meeting of the Krishnapur Poetry Society . |
| 25 | It was the beginnings of change in some local authorities and the pressure from the left that created the move to reform within the Board of Education . |
| 26 | She had rejoiced at her childlessness , and even found the heart to laugh at the lamentable end of her father 's fond dynastic ambitions . |
| 27 | Her blonde head dipped as she traced the path to get to the Colombian city . |
| 28 | Wimpey Homes sponsored the group to play at the Cheddar Folk Festival and May Fair . |
| 29 | Counsel for the prosecution invited the jury to decide between the suggestion that the officer had ‘ gone to the very depth of deceit ’ by imposing his attention on the woman or whether she had made ‘ a wicked and false allegation ’ . |
| 30 | Sandy bays invited the bather to plunge in the clear cool waters ; boating parties found no breeze to fill the sail , and rowed lazily around the coast . |