Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers need to take children 's ideas seriously , and avoid making them feel that they have to search for the right answer , hidden somewhere in the teacher 's head . |
| 2 | In a moment he had jumped on to the horse 's back . |
| 3 | Teesside Park — specialist retail outlets at the old Stockton racecourse , now being developed together with the UK 's largest leisure centre . |
| 4 | He has guarded fiercely against the band 's tapes being made public but listening to them years on , it is difficult to understand his uneasiness and it seems a loss to fans . |
| 5 | The information received typically referred only to the riot 's location , and not specific incidents . |
| 6 | The award is given annually by the Author 's Club on the recommendation of the RIBA 's Professional Literature Committee . |
| 7 | While it was generally considered to be almost impossible to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered along with the donor 's name . |
| 8 | A third round of preliminary talks in Rome between the TPLF and the Ethiopian government on March 20-29 had broken down over the TPLF 's insistence that " substantive talks " should involve a joint delegation of the TPLF and its ally , the Ethiopian People 's Democratic Movement ( EPDM ) . |
| 9 | Low comfortable chairs had been set out in a square ; too comfortable for-some , because there was a distinct buzz of snoring from the other side of a rack of trade journals , broken only by the bats ' wing rustle of folding and refolding newspaper . |
| 10 | Still , Huy had answered Surere 's summons , had even given in to the messenger 's insistence that they travel in the closed rickshaw , so that he would not be able to tell where they were going . |
| 11 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |
| 12 | It is also a must for anyone who wants a better understanding of , and comment on the events that are reported daily in the World 's Press . |
| 13 | Probably the paper did n't even have wire service , and if it did , he 'd bet a dime that anything which had come in about the book 's author had simply been buried in the chaos then reigning in the newspaper office . |
| 14 | More than 50 orphaned or injured otters from all over Britain have come in to the trust 's rehabilitation centre in south-west Scotland . |
| 15 | This time there was no knife , they just got him on the floor and it was just a fist which had come down on the man 's face again and again . |
| 16 | and erm these were poultry breeders be erm scattered all over the count er county who yes the erm accredited poultry breeding station scheme was erm initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and erm there were a number of farms scattered all over the county erm where they were open to inspection and erm we had erm had a Mrs who went round and inspected the flocks and erm they had to reapply each year to erm sustain their accreditation |
| 17 | Investment criteria that are applied as a matter of course to every other company are in danger of being abandoned completely as the institutions face the prospect of being sucked in by the Government 's subtle propaganda . |
| 18 | Instead Fera Pessima exhibits a quite different feeling of steady harmonic movement , which when considered together with the work 's wealth of comparatively strict imitation certainly suggests and essay in an altogether more ‘ up-to-date ’ manner , even if the date itself eludes inquiry . |
| 19 | The cassock had a thin hood , held in place over the attendant 's head and face by what looked like the brim from an old and worn red hat ; it was squeezed down over the attendant 's head , the top of the hood showing through where the hat 's crown should have been . |
| 20 | Thanks to cosmetic ingenuity , the damage had been repaired sufficiently for the coroner 's jury to view the corpse when the inquest was held in the prison later that morning . |
| 21 | Very much in tune with the work of The Enterprise Centre are the Insight into Management Courses organised annually by the University 's Careers Service in association with the Careers Research and Advisory Centre ( CRAC ) . |
| 22 | Being let down by the program that£s supposed to save your bacon is a disturbing experience — an expensive way to be reminded that you should never again rely on just one back-up . |
| 23 | It 's come away from the zip er er I do n't know whether it 's er |
| 24 | Eddie McNally has won through in the men 's singles Section A with wins over G Byrne 21–15 and Richard Neilson whom he beat 21–14 to face the experienced Tommy Hopper . |
| 25 | The problem was that it was theoretically possible for someone to introduce poison gas into a remote and perhaps unguarded part of the system and for the noxious fumes to be carried through to the General-Secretary 's apartments or office . |
| 26 | Each month 's results are picked over in the business 's board meeting , with a head-office manager present in a non-executive role . |
| 27 | Dexter found the effect comforting rather than disconcerting : he had been won over by the man 's charm . |
| 28 | Even those of us in the office who had their doubts at first were soon won over by the instrument 's simplicity and friendliness . |
| 29 | And the chairman was won over by the manager 's charm , powerful persuasiveness and dynamism . |
| 30 | I could not present them , at fifty-five and sixty , with the same situation they had had to face twenty years earlier when my mother had come home from the teacher 's training college where she was a lecturer in medieval history , given birth to me , and died of it . |