Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ( very ) old ‘ American bands get treated like gods in the UK while homegrown talent is treated like a joke ’ argument is met with a smile and a calm , ‘ Yeah , but we get the advantage when we go to America , ’ from Hugo . |
| 2 | I also get stopped by strangers on the street who tell me how much they enjoyed it . |
| 3 | First pieces of the sky fall on my house , then I get attacked by bits of the sea . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's come into my parlour or get sliced into pieces with the lasers . ’ |
| 5 | The econometric work will be undertaken on a data set constructed by CURDS at the University of Newcastle which details the adoption dates of nine technologies in approximately 1500 firms in the metalworking and engineering industry . |
| 6 | Eight of the 12 EC governments remain opposed to attempts by the EC Commissioner for competition policy , Sir Leon Brittan , to impose greater competition on national telecoms authorities . |
| 7 | SCOTVEC publishes a number of guides which are designed to help teachers , lecturers and other staff keep informed of developments in the National Certificate and to provide details of procedures for candidate enrolment and module registration . |
| 8 | I 've come to terms with the blow and I 've a marriage to arrange . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've come to terms with the rule fairly quickly , ’ said Pearson . |
| 10 | Well , rightly or wrongly we 've come to arrangements with the Liberals , not because we like the Liberals , not because we wanted to , but we , we were fed up with be being in opposition to tell you the truth . |
| 11 | It 's been based on jobs we 've done for clients in the past , based on pla past experience . |
| 12 | The big advantage we 've got over bands from the '60s and '70s is we can look back and see the exact point at which they all turned shit — and we 're not going to make the same mistake ! ’ |
| 13 | Yeah but I do n't , see savings they 've got on suits at the moment , special offers on them cos they 're not shifting them . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've played in pictures like The Gauntlet where the woman is the smarter of the two people , it just depends on the project , ’ he says in his sole reference to 43-year-old Sondra , who co-starred in six films with him . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've played against sides from the Durham League and the North Yorkshire League and they have had the advantage of being able to include the likes of Ritchie Richardson , Clayton Lambert and Phil Simmons . |
| 16 | This was very common in the past and I 'm sure many shop stewards here who 've dealt with redundancies in the past , know about the poor members who get quite a nice lump sum redundancy , but in fact , they 've only been in pension schemes a short while , so they ca n't provide for themselves in old age , once they 've spent the redundancy money . |
| 17 | Fenner Brockway , well I , I 've gone to meetings in the Albert Hall , and I 've gone to meetings at Sheffield . |
| 18 | Well , while the vote has dismayed some , those who 've campaigned for years for the ordination of women into the priesthood are celebrating . |
| 19 | Well I went dow back down the Road cos there was a traffic jam and er I sort of went down oh sorry mate went down a road like which I thought was a good short cut , and they 've got a lot of these roads and they 've put like pavements across the end of them with bollards , and I went back and then there was a traffic jam and I got stuck because they were unloading a lorry so I 've been er basically pissed about . |
| 20 | I 've read books that are set in the country and , of course , poems , and I 've lived in towns near the country and gone into the country on Sundays or when there was no school . ’ |
| 21 | Whenever I 've enthused to practitioners about the advantages of LM 's they 've always expressed confusion about the procedures involved and in particular the complications that they see in using teaspoons , tablespoons and glasses . |
| 22 | More than 300 people have fallen from trains in the past 20 years . |
| 23 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 24 | It is a well-known fact that ferrets have mated with polecats in the wild . |
| 25 | This time the researchers have looked for steps in the decay chain of a B meson , in which the b quark converts first into a c quark and then into an s quark ; this means that the B meson decays into a charmed D meson , and then a strange K meson . |
| 26 | ‘ Getting babies hooked on soft drinks even before their first teeth have come through verges on the criminal , ’ said children 's health writer Dr Tim Lobstein . |
| 27 | Through counselling I have come to terms with the fact that the world and the people in it are n't perfect , and nor am I. |
| 28 | We have come to terms with the fact that most of us have subtle differences which determine the strengths and weaknesses of our make-up . |
| 29 | DOZENS of new leads have come from members of the public after a reconstruction of the last moments of stabbed businesswoman Jean Bradley , police said yesterday . |
| 30 | Both the Edinburgh Old Town Renewal Trust , a conservation body , and the Old Town Community Development Project , have written to councillors on the district council 's licensing board to support the planned curbs which are due to be considered next week . |