Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has led some writers to place him within the interpretative tradition . |
| 2 | Midge Ure was playing for nothing , just a few beers to see him through the evening . |
| 3 | The Turks might try to tax , or offer administrative salaries to Zuwaya who were willing to participate in government ; but Zuwaya always resisted these attempts to bring them into the reach of government . |
| 4 | It was , as Steve Hammond said , all there , but there was nothing , she realised , in all those pages to tell her of the particular hell this couple must have been through . |
| 5 | He gave it a few more seconds to get him through the next traffic signals and then killed it again . |
| 6 | A number of initiatives are planned to contact more women to encourage them of the benefits of involvement . |
| 7 | Given this continuing policy vacuum on the one hand and the implacable opposition of the judiciary to any attempts to fill it on the other , it is not altogether surprising that few attempts have been made to fashion an overall criminal justice strategy that would bring together sentencing and penal policy . |
| 8 | Are there any plans to bring it within the rebate scheme ? |
| 9 | I asked Stephen — one of the two hapless fathers and himself reduced to a mulberry-eyed basket case — if he still had enough marbles to drive me to the station at Orvieto . |
| 10 | ‘ You are a good second class student , ’ was his verdict ; ‘ my job is to help you scrape up enough marks to push you over the border line . ’ |
| 11 | Nothing was said , but we all knew he had gone against his own convictions to save us from the pain of losing his company and his vital support . |
| 12 | The nearest town was Burlington and he travelled the five miles there each Monday morning in his battered white ‘ 78 Ford pick-up to collect enough supplies to last him through the week . |
| 13 | But it is a deeply conservative trade which has resolutely resisted most attempts to bring it into the twentieth century , to make it more efficient , or to make access to the law more available to the ordinary citizen . |
| 14 | Like the silkmoth , ants sense pheromones through their antennae ; but they make continual use of both antennae to keep them in the right direction . |