Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 2 | Stephen had them in the handsome , leather-bound edition of the International Collectors ' Library and also in the paperbacks that had come out to go with the television series . |
| 3 | While the so-called ‘ superminis ’ — cars like the Peugeot 205 and the new Ford Fiesta — grow larger and more expensive , the Eastern bloc car makers have quietly crept in to capitalise on the market for more affordable transport . |
| 4 | ‘ Let me invite you to dinner in an hour , ’ said George , ‘ and ’ — this was addressed to Mrs Robinson , who had crept in to stand in the doorway and hear the end of the story , and now stepped forward to play a part — ‘ please , let us borrow your daughter for the evening so that we four can be a company . |
| 5 | Willis and four men were whisked off to jail for the night and released on bail . |
| 6 | John and wife Pam had written off to appear on the programme only to discover there were 10,000 applicants . |
| 7 | Zborowski said nothing but went into his room and changed into worn summer clothes and came out carrying his only winter suit parcelled up to take to the pawnbroker . |
| 8 | Sometimes the numbers are sufficient to precipitate Type I disease in calves 3-4 weeks after they are turned out to graze in the spring . |
| 9 | But Allan Lamb , who is at the centre of the ball-tampering row , has been hung out to dry by the game 's gutless rulers . |
| 10 | This allows you to make a more considered approach than a telephone call and to use the job matching list you have drawn up to bring to the employer 's attention the reasons why you are suitable for the job and why you should be seen for interview . |
| 11 | Many thousands arrived by rail and road and local Kidderminster car-parks were specially opened up to cope with the volume of visitors . |
| 12 | The Secretary-General was asked to organize an air bridge for food aid as a matter of urgency , and all parties and factions were called on to co-operate in the deployment of UN security personnel . |
| 13 | As late as 1792 , Sir Robert Ainslie , Murray 's successor , complained that by not being called on to mediate in the peace negotiations which had just produced the Russo-Turkish treaty of Jassy he had lost the opportunity to make about £30,000 in presents from both sides , though this was probably a great exaggeration . |
| 14 | ‘ He could , of course , from the son 's own appearance , have deduced that the father must be at least in his late sixties or seventies and he could , of course , have called in to talk to the father personally when he drove round to have a look at the property . |
| 15 | the complexity of science , which renders forging a direct causal link between corporate practice and the death , injury , or economic loss of employees , consumers , and the general public , very difficult to prove ‘ beyond a reasonable doubt ’ , particularly when those ‘ experts ’ called in to testify to the relationship add so many qualifications and possibilities that almost everything appears possible but nothing certain . |
| 16 | A team of British scientists have been called in to help save the city of Venice from flooding . |
| 17 | She had showered and put on a tracksuit , having been called down to help in the kitchen before getting into something more elegant . |
| 18 | She expelled her breath sharply , and automatically reached up to fiddle with the bun at her nape , easing her arms back , trying to release the tension mounting in her shoulders . |
| 19 | Do you have any reminiscences of the the Great War and the way it affected , were many of the men called up to serve from the area ? |
| 20 | Much of this activity was carried out by special commissions especially set up to cope with the flood of material that was uncovered . |
| 21 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 22 | A committee has now been set up to lobby for the restoration of the medieval paving and an invitation has been issued to the public to show its support by sponsoring a brick at L10,000 a time ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 13 ) . |
| 23 | Before running the Validation program , ensure that the logical name LIFESPANCONFIGURATION has been set up to point to the configuration file for the LIFESPAN system being checked . |
| 24 | The research programme seemed to provide the stimulus for improvement around the country , particularly in academic libraries where many working parties were set up to deal with the problem . |
| 25 | No but the national accounts department is set up to deal with the head offices of of the key multiples and national accounts . |
| 26 | At the same time Sir David Maxwell Fyfe persistently refused the requests of Sir Robert Boothby in Parliament that a Royal Commission should be set up to enquire into the nature and treatment of homosexuality . |
| 27 | This group of NFL stalwarts were in Scotland as part of the World Partnership programme which has been set up to assist in the development of American football at amateur level in Europe . |
| 28 | " Are you saying I am not to be set up to dine with the Prince at Carlton House ? |
| 29 | These issues were being raised in the deliberations of a SCOTVEC review group which included representatives of SED , SEB and SCCC and which had been set up to look at the acceptability of non-vocational modules in National Certificate . |
| 30 | Now a Middlesbrough Council working party has been set up to look at the problem . |