Example sentences of "of [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | and they come to MPs like me to try and find some way of helping themselves out of the dilemma . |
2 | I was at the time very concerned , because he was posted almost immediately to North Africa , and there was no chance of helping him forward in the early days of his Christian life . |
3 | Instead of seeing them individually in the privacy of his study , he arranged regular ‘ Sharing Jesus ’ evenings to which the baptism families and wedding couples were invited . |
4 | after that we sort of passed it on to the one next you know what to expect , but if it was down to my mother she 'd never tell you . |
5 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
6 | It is clear that the derivation of the high number of word paths from mid-classes and the problem of filtering them out at the lexical access stage means that syntactic/semantic information must be brought to bear as soon as words are accessed . |
7 | We toyed with the idea of bringing her down from the gallery and onto the set one evening . |
8 | This has reduced the lag between the US and the UK to around a month with the stated goal of eliminating it completely by the end of the year for both English and the primary European languages . |
9 | His spirit had not been broken ; rather he was afraid of tearing himself apart with the involuntary jerking of one side of his limbs in the opposite direction to the other . |
10 | Also , when you die you get to choose whereabouts on the screen to restart , avoiding the trap of landing you right in the middle of what killed you in the first place . |
11 | They are ongoing in that they are still at an early stage and in that the process of applying them right across the whole of the NHS will take several years-probably up to the end of the century . |
12 | These muscles have the function of keeping us upright against the ever-present force of gravity ; they have the advantage of never tiring as they need to work for long periods at a time . |
13 | I say that because all the engines of recovery seem incapable of driving us out of the recession . |
14 | Planting consists merely of tossing them on to the surface of the water . |
15 | If they thought it was that bad they would of picked it up on the M O T would n't they ? |
16 | This deed somehow necessitated a second manoeuvre , that of picking myself up off the floor . |
17 | It was just that erm the other varieties around were competing too heavily against it so they thought what 's the point of passing it on to the children . |
18 | " Then I will hope to have the pleasure of meeting you again in the ancient city of the Annamese emperors , " said the governor , smiling again . |
19 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
20 | Also , with Bush committed to opposing both bills , Republicans in Congress were anxious to enable him to avoid the political embarrassment of vetoing them just before the presidential election . |
21 | The rewards of this parliamentary victory were to come with the defeat of the French armies in 1870 , but at the time opponents of the Emperor saw only a means of forcing him further along the path of change . |
22 | A short bout of exercise has a further role , namely of waking you up in the morning as it turns on the alerting mechanisms of the body . |
23 | Naturally he wanted a top man to carry his bag , a man who knew St Andrews like the back of his hand — someone young and capable of clubbing him perfectly over the home of golf 's fickle links , no matter what the weather . |
24 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |
25 | The malodorous slime has the dual effects of choking anyone too near the Troll and also making it extremely hard for an attacker to land a blow . |
26 | I know I probably could of had one right from the word go |
27 | Someone uncoupled that car at Cartier and rigged some way of pulling it out of the station into the darkness before releasing it . |
28 | Yeah well we 've got a little antique box a jewellery box and it 's embossed the pattern round it , and the pattern round it is a boar hunt and it 's beautiful , there 's a little boar galloping his heart out with horsemen after him with spears and he 's all the way round the box and I thought of adding him on to the copper kettle you know as engraved all round the outside . |
29 | Although it may have been a convenient way of getting her out of the country , this also indicates that Ælfgifu had previously enjoyed a recognised position . |
30 | Most caddies have their own way of getting one back in the long run . |