Example sentences of "to [noun] [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was tolerant of his brother Neil 's attempts to piggyback his way into the movies on the Connery name , and understanding of his mother 's very Scottish shame at his success ; she took to booking even her hair appointments in her maiden name . |
| 2 | My third point is coming back to Chairman your point about the paragraph , the criterion paragraph of thirty three of P P G three , and the settlement in my view fails the first the first test , since the very city which it is supposed to relieve says that the need can be met , and I quote , within and on the edge of the urban area and villages . |
| 3 | Galileo was able to outmanoeuvre his rival in the fruitless game of the invention of ad hoc devices for the protection of theories . |
| 4 | Both were landless men who depended on being allowed to pasture their milk-cows on the water-meadows down at Ballechin , and as Cameron caught the drift of their intent talk and occasional sardonic laughter , he wondered again how many names had been put to faces during yesterday 's hurly-burly . |
| 5 | And if we do so we might call ourselves a nomadic and pastoral people of the transcendent ; and we shall be able to pasture our thoughts like the flocks of the nomads . |
| 6 | This may be due to the economic climate , but also the harsh reality of trying to justify fee increases to clients whose perception of the audit service has not changed . |
| 7 | England are committed to a three-game summer tour in America , where Taylor wants to fine-tune his squad for the 1994 World Cup finals . |
| 8 | From January to July my contacts with the family were infrequent and concerned the progress of the two older boys . |
| 9 | He poured his boiling water into the enamel basin , then started to strop his razor on the leather strap that hung by the side of the sink . |
| 10 | The brindle made the trip from Roscommon to stamp his authority on the event with a 30.66 victory over the 550 yard trip . |
| 11 | Send 'em to Bash Yer Brains at the usual address . |
| 12 | Luke de Warton , who was captured by the Scots in the early 1320s , had to mortgage his lands to the Captain of Berwick Castle to raise the money to redeem himself , and he ended his days living on the charity of a religious house in York . |
| 13 | All Scorpios will be a little tetchy when the Sun in your birth sign is at odds with Saturn on November 4 and close to Pluto your ruler on the 14th . |
| 14 | Would this be the opportunity to mention to Adam her difficulties over the ledgers ? |
| 15 | Forcing them all to retune their lives to the pitch she set . |
| 16 | In the research carried out by one of the present authors ( Powell 1987 ) , forty seven clients in six separate structured group programmes were asked to rate which components of the package they had found most helpful . |
| 17 | Remember not to ground your club at the address position as this will incur a two-stroke penalty in stroke-play or the loss of a hole in match-play . |
| 18 | The portfolios for Industry , Agriculture , Public Works , Commerce and Finance were entrusted to people whose loyalty to the regime was , of course , unimpeachable , but whose political utility lay in their possession of technical skills , not in their allegiance to any particular ideological current , nor in having good connections with the traditional oligarchy of large , wealthy landowners . |
| 19 | The annual exercise of producing a Corporate Plan helps us to stand back from our regular activities and review what our customers — including the Secretary of State for Scotland — expect from us , and to refocus our efforts on the main objectives and priorities . |
| 20 | I am asking the vendor 's solicitors if they will accept a reduced deposit but in the meantime will you please confirm that the bank has agreed to loan you 95% of the purchase money . |
| 21 | His hand brushed down the length of her body so that she shivered , then came up to cup her breast beneath the thin cotton of her nightgown . |
| 22 | Well this conference has been assembled to bring up to date our information concerning the position of human genes in the human chromosomes . |
| 23 | Hutchinson seems to have resumed his part in a family transatlantic trading network ; although according to tradition his losses in the great fire of London exceeded £60,000 , he seems to have died a wealthy man . |
| 24 | to arch its passage round the day . |
| 25 | Second-placed London Welsh had a blank weekend , giving Rob Lane 's troops the chance to extent their lead at the top to three points with just three games left . |
| 26 | Scotland were under the greater pressure in the scrummage while their threatened superiority at the lineout evaporated as Yann Lemeur at the front and , to a lesser degree , Olivier Merle in the middle began to time their jump across the great divide that is the mandatory gap . |
| 27 | Critics of policies of that period like Samuel Brittan have suggested that chancellors found it difficult to time their uses of the economic ‘ brake ’ or ‘ accelerator ’ properly , and that the ‘ stop-go ’ pattern that emerged provided a poor economic environment for investment decisions , and thus inhibited British growth . |
| 28 | One of the key things for the male is to time his departure from the first female correctly . |
| 29 | But six-foot Aussies and Englishmen have to jack-knife their bodies at the four-foot door which leaks substantial amounts of air — as does the roof where the stovepipe pokes through . |