Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you yourself come to know about the article in the Telegraph ? |
| 2 | But workers rejected that offer and the matter has now been referred to the national executive of the Amalgamated Engineering Union , which is expected to rule on the dispute in the next few days . |
| 3 | It 's not they have not yet been developed to be wholly reliable , and there are problems to be solved to do with the fluctuation in the wind power , but I think perhaps some of those are exaggerated . |
| 4 | As a result , thousands of Japanese tourists are expected to flock to the house in which Wordsworth wrote some of his best work . |
| 5 | Directors are expected to co-operate with the Panel in connection with its enquiries , by providing promptly on request , copies of minutes of board meetings and other information in their possession , or in the possession of the offeror or offeree company as appropriate . |
| 6 | True , this remark was later said to go beyond the consensus in her shadow Cabinet ; and Mr Prior sought to moderate it . |
| 7 | 15 The high quality of the environment in the project areas provides a spectacular contrast with unreconstructed streets nearby — and indeed with the public environment we have grown to accept as the norm in Britain . |
| 8 | ‘ Caledonian Mining remains interested in Monktonhall , but Macleod is no longer prepared to talk to the board in case it provokes further misleading comments to the press , ’ the source said . |
| 9 | Whilst Kuhn maintains that science does progress in some sense , he is quite unambiguous in his denial that it can be said to progress towards the truth in any well-defined sense . |
| 10 | The ceremony is said to derive from the day in the year 52 when San Barnaba did the same thing outside the walls of Milan to symbolize the city 's conversion to Christianity . |
| 11 | Despite all the evidence which they have themselves presented to testify to the way in which liberal democratic institutions are bypassed and used to serve the interests of particular interests , these writers still believe the problem can be exorcised within the liberal democratic framework which exists . |
| 12 | In other words , electrical activity was seen to develop in the cerebellum in connection with eyeblink conditioning . |
| 13 | Truth had had to go by the board in the work he had been doing during the war and there seemed no point in insisting on using it again . |
| 14 | I 've got to go to the loo in a minute anyway after I steal one of your cigarettes , notice the word cigarettes instead of the word fags oh I do n't know , I think I 'll go and sell my body , might make a couple of quid and leg it down the |
| 15 | Julie , we 've got to go to the cottage in Sussex . |
| 16 | Think about the , think about the sizes , think about the weights and think about what it 's got ta be used for and that is really got to relate to the dressing in the dressing room because there 's all sorts of things there , there 's jewellery , there 's hats . |
| 17 | Glenn Hoddle says that playing at Wembley can be like making your debut … the sight of the twin towers still gives you a buzz but they 've got to forget all about that and get on and win the game … it 's a wonderful place to play he says and the pitch should suit Swindon but they 've got to concentrate on the job in hand |
| 18 | Once Shawcross had agreed to lead for the Government in the debate on the compromise clause , the possibility of a damaging resignation receded . |
| 19 | After the terrible night when Lok and Fa have dared to cross to the island in an attempt to rescue the abducted children , Lok 's feelings are described : " there was stuffed inside the bones of his head the white flock of the autumn creepers , their seeds were in his nose , making him yawn and sneeze " ( p. 134 ) . |
| 20 | Wedgie [ Tony Benn ] then made what I found a very effective speech , pointing out that we had got to look at the problem in domestic as well as international terms . |
| 21 | But before you do you 've got to look at the material in the working file . |
| 22 | ‘ What 's she got to do with the matter in hand ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't want to sound sinister , but it could equally well be used to trigger off the detonator in an explosive device being carried by an American Air Force bomber . ’ |
| 24 | Laura was unable to have her transplant on the NHS so Fran and Les launched an appeal which raised the £350,000 needed to pay for the operation in the US . |
| 25 | There are some more points I 've got to make about the budget in general . |
| 26 | erm The penalty is fixed , it 's redeeming your car from the pound , and the traffic is enabled to go through the street in the way that the planners of the traffic system had intended . |
| 27 | The main group of verbs which will both justify the singling out of some adjectival property of the entity behind the object phrase , and which , moreover , have a lexical value such that this adjectival property will be understood to apply to the object in some way especially relevant to the meaning of the verb are , as we have indicated , verbs which include the notion of a change of state . |
| 28 | This year the London Handel Orchestra have been invited to play at the festival in Hesse — Handel 's birthplace . |
| 29 | Fifty firemen were called to deal with the fire in a storage section of a plastics factory . |
| 30 | The Simonova 's sensors were geared to respond to the presence in her path of any mass approaching planetary proportions . |