Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 I keep them on for the programme .
32 The centre forward , whom they nicknamed Ossie , wore his sideburns long and his shorts even longer — but at least he kept them on for the duration .
33 From the drawings , he sketched various elevations , then cut them out and transferred them on to the blocks of wood to be bandsawn .
34 If we move them on to the street , there 'll be more trouble .
35 We check the statements , file them and send them on to the band along with our commission invoice .
36 Both men stood aside to let a big dark-green Jaguar edge carefully round them on to the forecourt of the house immediately to the left of where the BMW was parked .
37 Spraying the aerosol is the best way to get them on to the enemy , but even this is difficult .
38 Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government .
39 She threw them on to the table and looked down at Doyle and Tug .
40 But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast .
41 At one end we should have the ancient Palace of Westminster bringing down our historical associations from the times of the early Saxon kings , and at the other we should have the Palace of Whitehall carrying them on to the revolution …
42 The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach .
43 The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay .
44 As an alternative , radio versions are now available at economic prices ; these allow virtually unrestricted movement to the wearer , the signals being picked up by a special receiver which passes them on to the camcorder via a short cable connection .
45 If these two signals differ significantly in level , you will need to balance them up at the mixer before passing them on to the camcorder .
46 The Institute is concerned , however , that the duty may lead to over-reporting by auditors or to unnecessary formality in preparation of reports , which could cause delay in passing them on to the Bank .
47 He then threw them on to the ground in the tinder-dry hay loft without putting them out properly , it is alleged .
48 WORMS stopped play in the Wiltshire tennis championships after heavy rain drove scores of them on to the Marlborough courts .
49 It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit .
50 With wrong side of skirt facing you , pick up ‘ stitches ’ from half the top of skirt , putting them on to the needles that are in WP .
51 Keep the test papers safe or pass them on to the class teacher ( or the student ) so that weak areas can be diagnosed .
52 We just clear them on to the runway and tell them what other traffic we expect .
53 He unzipped the holdall , took out a couple of Boyt shoulder holsters and dropped them on to the table before delving into the holdall again for two handguns carefully wrapped in strips of green cloth .
54 What they had failed to do was pass them on to the laity .
55 Hawkmoths , which are among the swiftest insect flyers capable of speeds of 50 kph , have reduced their hind wings very considerably in size and latched them on to the long narrow fore-wings with a curved bristle .
56 From the beginning of their history , the amphibians were hunters , preying on the worms , insects and other invertebrates that had preceded them on to the land .
57 ( iii ) Transfer embryos to 1% glutaraldehyde in 0.1 M cacodylate buffer pH 7.4 and mouth pipette them on to the centre of a prepared coverslip .
58 With a flick of its head , it throws them on to the water .
59 He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner .
60 The shop-keeper nodded with eventual understanding , cut off a huge bunch of bright green grapes and threw them on to the scales .
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