Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deal provokes further speculation that Rowland is preparing the way for a successor to take over the group he has led for 30 years . |
| 2 | The new Prime Minister was obliged , yesterday morning , to send a driver to find out the telephone number of one of his key ministers , before Mr Singh could pass on the good news of his appointment . |
| 3 | ‘ All three put up a struggle to fight off the attacker . |
| 4 | From July it will be illegal for anyone other than a vet to carry out the operation . |
| 5 | The bank had arranged for a four-wheeler to pick up the messenger , round the back of the building . |
| 6 | The disadvantage is that they require a transformer to step down the voltage , which either means fairly expensive fittings ( incorporating the transformer so they can replace existing fittings ) , or expensive wiring from a central transformer to the light fittings — low voltage means high current , so the wires have to be much bigger than normal lighting wiring . |
| 7 | the pretty girl victim … four months after The Fox subjected her to a three-hour sex ordeal — and forced her brother and her boyfriend at gunpoint to perform degrading acts with her — the girl crawled into an airing cupboard in a bid to shut out the memories . |
| 8 | Graham Kelly , FA chief executive , yesterday morning abandoned England 's team headquarters in Santander to fly to London in a bid to sort out the crisis . |
| 9 | A NEW reward of £5,000 has been offered in a bid to track down the killer of sunbather Ann Heron . |
| 10 | Today in a bid to keep down the voles , the Department of Transport and the Forestry Commission began placing Kestrel nesting boxes along the M40 motorway . |
| 11 | TRANSPORT links in Livingston are to come under scrutiny in a bid to cut down the number of cars on the roads . |
| 12 | A HEADMASTER has called on schools to join forces in a bid to stamp out the menace of solvent abuse in the North-East . |
| 13 | Officials could increase next season 's four-month qualification period for players changing clubs to one season in a bid to stamp out the scandal . |
| 14 | Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it . |
| 15 | You can soak off old glue in water , but you may have to chisel or sand away modern adhesives and you 'll have to use a chisel to clean out the mortise . |
| 16 | It was to take a year and a half to build up the momentum for the Hot Autumn . |
| 17 | Gore then devised a plan to burn down the house , destroying any forensic evidence he might have left behind . |
| 18 | Gedge was anxious to save money and went down to London on a coach to pick up the singles . |
| 19 | Victims and health authorities agree that services are n't being properly coordinated , but one authority has promised to try to find a consultant to sort out the problem . |
| 20 | Jews or Zionists are seen as prime movers in a plot to take over the world , by destroying nations and manipulating the minds of ordinary people . |
| 21 | As late as 1719 there was a plot to hand over the island of Ibiza in the Balearics to the British ; but by then Catalan resentment of rule from Madrid , though still a factor of importance , was ceasing to be an immediate danger to national unity . |
| 22 | This section of land lies between the canal and the River Tame and leads along to the A5127 northeast-bound where there might be room for a vehicle to pull off the road into the gateway to load up beneath the M6 . |
| 23 | A determination to rein in the president also lay behind the Case Act that became law in 1972 . |
| 24 | HOLYBOURNE residents are being urged to support a campaign to slow down the traffic through their village . |
| 25 | Mr Crosbie said yesterday there are also signs that the school roll is to rise , after a campaign to win back the confidence of local parents . |
| 26 | He made a move to pick up the bucket but saw Alexandra 's glance in time and withdrew his hand unhappily . |
| 27 | He carried on past and found a place to pull off the road , and then he collected together his flashlight and a roll of tools and set off to walk the short distance back . |
| 28 | ‘ Historically , people have looked to Europe as a place to make up the profit margins they had to give away in the States , ’ Apple spokesperson Frank O'Mahoney admitted to me immediately before launching into a lengthy explanation of how computer prices in Europe are now tumbling to less obscene levels . |
| 29 | In this case the seller will probably require some statement of the efforts that the acquirer will take to collect the debts , provision for unallocated payments received from debtors to be attributed first to pre-completion obligations , and a right to take over the enforcement of debts which are not collected within a period of , say , six months . |
| 30 | In McHugh ( 1989 ) 88 Cr App R 385 ( CA ) , the accused used money of a company of which he was a director to pay off the debts of subsidiary companies , of which he was also a director . |