Example sentences of "to [pron] [noun sg] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Phelan is referring to my promise to read the Bible at a rate of five chapters a day , thus finishing it in a year . |
| 2 | I coughed and spluttered and gagged a few times , then fell back into Jamie 's arms , bringing my legs up to my chin to ease the ache in my stomach muscles . |
| 3 | I have always put it down to my ability to understand the subject |
| 4 | So from high above London I began a series of drawings , often adding extra leaves to my sketchbook to extend the rectangle . |
| 5 | How could I get to my study to take the drug ? |
| 6 | If the burrow to my left represented the squalors of the subconscious , here to my right was the chill of the super-ego . |
| 7 | What I tell him is the background to my commission to write the script . |
| 8 | ‘ This morning I 'm taking you up the coast to my house overlooking the Sound , and if the weather stays as good as it is at the moment we 'll spend the afternoon on the beach at Hornbaek , which means we 'll go right past Kronberg — we can even stop off and take the tour if it appeals to you . ’ |
| 9 | His body rolled away and uncovered the blood-spattered broken body of my poor dead sister , and even as I raised my hand to my mouth to stifle the scream , I saw the vicious green lizard dart into her hair . |
| 10 | Indeed , recently the French Government suggested that in addition to its measure to reduce the working week , establish early retirement and other features to deal with some of the multiplier effects of growing structural unemployment , it will also engage in a campaign of socially useful production similar to that advocated by the Lucas workers . |
| 11 | There the exemption clause , according to its wording limited the liability of some seed merchants ( for supplying defective seed ) to the cost of replacing the seed ; it excluded liability for consequential loss of the buyers ' crop . |
| 12 | The Church of England is to face a legal challenge to its decision to allow the ordination of women . |
| 13 | Seething at the thought that acne-ridden new savers were getting a better deal than a man of his maturity and substance , he retired like a wounded beast to its lair to ponder the problem . |
| 14 | The disenchantment with Keynesian demand-management among policy-makers was due to its failure to overcome the coexistence of high rates of inflation and high unemployment . |
| 15 | One morning I received a report on the terms of reference for the Service-wide performance review and wrote a minute to its author stressing the need to define the concept of work . |
| 16 | He reaffirmed the government 's commitment to its programme to return the country to democratic civilian rule on schedule in 1992 . |
| 17 | Jamie , a bright , outgoing sixteen-year-old member of a church youth group , was planning to go to its meeting following the Sunday evening service . |
| 18 | Not only is the Bundesrat 's consent not required for all laws ( Article 77(3) ) but , in addition to its power to overrule the Bundesrat ( Article 77(4) ) , the Bundestag has virtual carte blanche to extend its area of competence , in virtue of an article which is a perfect formulation of ‘ subsidiarity ’ : |
| 19 | Finally , the determination of B has led to the formulation of the nephelauxetic series of ligands , in which the position of a ligand is related to its power to expand the d orbitals of the metal . |
| 20 | The smaller , vertical indicator column headed ‘ program ’ tells you which memory number is in use , while to its right sits the memory selector keypad . |
| 21 | The Administration is embarrassed that the Fed is not providing more support to its commitment to lower the dollar . |
| 22 | Resolutely , she splashed her face with icy water , repaired her make-up , and went back to her desk to face the nightmare with only her dignity to mask her pain . |
| 23 | There seemed nothing else to be said , and Melissa went out of the room and upstairs to the secretary 's office , where , in response to her request to use the phone , Marie-Claire grudgingly pushed the instrument across her desk . |
| 24 | Groaning , the pain in her lower body almost more than she could bear , she got to her feet , then spat blood , unable to put her hand up to her mouth to feel the damage he had done to her . |
| 25 | She received a charming welcome from Monique Lavaux , and a boisterous one from Marie-Christine , who promptly dragged her off to her room to see the wedding dress she was making for herself , in fold after fold of shimmering ivory brocade . |
| 26 | Had a too open show of admiration given offence ? — for she had felt a flame leap to her throat to watch the man 's confident pride in his body , the actuality of his skill , the sheer command . |
| 27 | It was not only in Communist Romania that the leaders of the Party quickly adapted their lifestyles to their capacity to exploit the state . |
| 28 | Most systems also have some method of assigning scores which rank competing hypotheses according to how well they match the constraints , or according to their probability given the evidence . |
| 29 | Both sides will to their ability support the process of security and co-operation in Europe on the basis of the [ 1975 ] Helsinki Final Act … particularly through the establishment of permanent institutions and bodies . |
| 30 | Now it seems that successive governments have just have n't lived up to their obligation to wield the stick , and Harlow council just have n't had the sense to reach for the carrot in that that local people are caught in the middle ! |