Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the thieves had eccentric tastes — they stole two goldfish , her cascading waterfall , a stone ornamental duck and a stone toadstool — plus a bucket to take away the fish . |
| 2 | ( 4 ) He explicitly introduced the fact that the committing justices had found a case to answer whereby the jury may have been influenced adversely to the appellant . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ All three put up a struggle to fight off the attacker . |
| 6 | Then you have a drug to take away the pain of the drug that is killing the cancer cells which unfortunately makes you sick and then they give you something to try to reduce that sickness , so you have one battling the other , battling the other . |
| 7 | From July it will be illegal for anyone other than a vet to carry out the operation . |
| 8 | The bank had arranged for a four-wheeler to pick up the messenger , round the back of the building . |
| 9 | It is scientific knowledge that enables an astronomer to predict when the next eclipse of the sun will occur or a physicist to explain why the boiling-point of water is lower than normal at high altitudes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It did n't take a Freud to work out the significance of that dream , she thought dully , making her way to the tiny cabinet which the hotel proprietors chose to call a private bathroom . |
| 12 | An important criteria for a hotelier to consider when the decision is made to obtain a card access system is the availability of local after sales support . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A NEW reward of £5,000 has been offered in a bid to track down the killer of sunbather Ann Heron . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | TRANSPORT links in Livingston are to come under scrutiny in a bid to cut down the number of cars on the roads . |
| 18 | A HEADMASTER has called on schools to join forces in a bid to stamp out the menace of solvent abuse in the North-East . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | These rather unusual troops figured prominently in later engagements , sometimes being hurled against the Iraqis in what were widely described as ‘ human waves ’ , recalling reports of the technique employed by the Chinese in the Korean war , in a bid to sweep away the Iraqis by sheer fervour and weight of numbers . |
| 21 | Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was to take a year and a half to build up the momentum for the Hot Autumn . |
| 24 | Suspended in a harness against a spiralling screen , he asks a hypnotherapist to take away the pain of loving someone who does not love him : to detox him . |
| 25 | Gore then devised a plan to burn down the house , destroying any forensic evidence he might have left behind . |
| 26 | The London based group Centrepoint has come up with a plan to bring together the people needed to get more homes . |
| 27 | Gedge was anxious to save money and went down to London on a coach to pick up the singles . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |