Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are part of a group with instructors then the instructors should take on the roles of the Jones and tell you the sort of things they think Olwyn will work for . |
| 2 | With November came the herring season and the boats would sail up the coast to Torbay , then back around Bigbury Bay and Plymouth , although a few boats continued to fish for pilchards from Looe throughout the Winter . |
| 3 | Every game Endill played the balls would bounce down the slope and into the sea . |
| 4 | It is possible for the future to appear in the subordinate clause as well : The firm will expand if the investors will put up the money , although the normal pattern is the future tense in the main clause , followed by the present tense in the subordinate one . |
| 5 | Oh yes yeah the skippers , the skippers would go up the town cos every time a ship used to come in they got , they got to take the their papers up to the agent , what the papers were I do n't really know might be a manifest or something like that , what they used to do I mean then you had erm and you had different agents now there 's more agents than ever now . |
| 6 | The willingness of AIS to listen to Skymaster users about the direction of the service is welcome , and one hopes that the customers will take up the challenge . |
| 7 | Thus if the Ming Vase is lent to the taxpayer repayable on demand ( so to say ) then if the taxpayer does in fact have the use for the entire year then the type of rental likely to be charged on such a letting in the market ( duly discounted because the trustees can call back the vase on demand ) is likely to comprise the benefit under s740 . |
| 8 | The alternative , as he saw it , was that the Americans would take over the Empire , while Britain exhausted herself trying to set the continent to rights . |
| 9 | And er we 'd have to clear all those away , and the chairs would be put into rows as I say , the boys 'd sit down one side , the girls would sit down the other . |
| 10 | On 10 June I received a letter from Mr. , which made reference to the site meeting I held with you on 4 June , and then said , and I quote , ‘ the volunteers will carry out the resurfacing works on the Canal towing path … ’ ; ‘ after the works are completed … ’ ; ‘ the upgrading works carried out by your organisation will be to the benefit of all canal users ’ . |
| 11 | On 10th June I received a letter from Mr. L. , referring to the site meeting with G. and stating , I quote , ‘ although the volunteers will carry out the resurfacing works on the Canal towing path … ’ ; ‘ after the works are completed … ’ ; ‘ the upgrading works carried out by your organisation will be to the benefit of all canal users ’ . |
| 12 | The spectators can take over the performers ' roles . |
| 13 | The men would run up the outside staircases and make straight for that . |
| 14 | The voters will write off the Opposition , whose policies are now purely hypocritical and do not matter . |
| 15 | The children might take on the roles of factory workers who stand to lose their jobs if the factory cleans up its act . |
| 16 | All Nursery and Primary 1–4 children enjoy the pleasant surroundings of modern purpose-built accommodation where , in a safe , controlled environment , with separate play areas , the children can lay down the basis of their future educational development . |
| 17 | This narrowing or furring up of the arteries can slow down the flow of the blood to your heart ( giving rise to the condition known as angina ) or even cut off the supply completely , at which point a heart attack then occurs . |
| 18 | The women may close down the village boozer , but they will not shut down the business altogether . |
| 19 | We gave our permission that the women should gather up the dead and give them burial according to the fashion of this people — ‘ t is said they strip the flesh and griddle it for a delicacy beforetimes , but I for one do not give this credence . |
| 20 | In this model , testing consists of checking that the students can carry out the task by the criteria detailed in the objectives . |
| 21 | Most people , when they went out at night or approached another village , carried a stick or a handful of stones ; if one or two dogs in a pack had been wounded the others would pick up the aggressive intention and drop back sullenly . |
| 22 | We 're all comrades here so the formalities should go out the window , for starters . |
| 23 | Lini also suggested that the churches should take over the running of a large part of the school system in the interests both of efficiency and economy . |
| 24 | The full moons and the eclipses will seek out the best and worst in your love life . |