Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rincewind looked around nervously for a tall figure in black ( wizards , even failed wizards , have in addition to rods and cones in their eyeballs the tiny octagons that enable them to see into the far octarine , the basic colour of which all other colours are merely pale shadows impinging on normal four-dimensional space . |
| 2 | As Pathfinders they had the extra advantage of being able to use all the latest radar equipment to enable them to see through the layers of cloud , and when they were talking to Met Officers we would hear mysterious references to ‘ Gee ’ and ‘ H2S ’ . |
| 3 | Well no , they take them to go with the horses . |
| 4 | East Germany had agreed to give them papers allowing them to go to the country of their choice , and they were expected to leave Poland ‘ in the very near future ’ . |
| 5 | In many cases , the parents of the brighter children wished them to go to the secondary school in Jarrow , an overcrowded building housing about 400 pupils in which good scholarship results were achieved , but there were serious difficulties facing their children : |
| 6 | You can compel them to go to the polling station and even to put an official election slip into the ballot box but that slip could be blank or spoiled , so what would be achieved ? |
| 7 | Night waking Some professionals suggest that parents should wake their children at certain times during the night to get them to go to the lavatory . |
| 8 | You do n't want them to go to the police , do you ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Team Toyota Europe want them to go to the Safari and they ca n't put off a decision much longer . |
| 10 | The headmaster would not allow them to go into the sixth form here . |
| 11 | When the Minister next talks to the local authorities about this issue , will he point out that many of them no longer give rehousing priority to ex-service personnel , but expect them to go through the normal homeless families procedures ? |
| 12 | Mahmoud got them to go through the events of the night . |
| 13 | ‘ I am not going to spend big money bringing players over from Scotland simply for them to go through the motions . ’ |
| 14 | He threw a bottleful of his pills into the kitchen sink and tried to get them to go down the drain with the handle of a dishmop . |
| 15 | He told them to go amongst the people of the land and offer them their service , to defend Minginish instead of conquering it ; for the most earth a man ever needs is what is piled in his grave . |
| 16 | You 'd think it would be totally alien for them to go in the water like that . |
| 17 | He also wants recommendations on what action should be taken in future to investigate serious complaints properly ; whether auditors should have a duty placed on them to report to the DTI separately where a company has critical financial problems ; and whether compensation should be paid to Land Travel 's victims . |
| 18 | Rose , laughing , took the gloves away as he pretended to need them to wear about the house . |
| 19 | But the motive for praying for the saints is to equip them to minister in the world . |
| 20 | They talked nonsense until there was sufficient calm in the stalls and circle to allow them to continue with the lines as written in the script . |
| 21 | The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits . |
| 22 | They were both trying to persuade me to continue with the radiotherapy and drugs . ’ |
| 23 | I , I er , you would not expect me to continue with the euphoria which you were trying to create earlier , and er , I have to say that I suppose that you would n't er , be proposing any different budget to this would you , in the circumstances that you 've got . |
| 24 | ‘ But both Graham and I knew it was impractical for me to continue in the job and remain as manager of Exeter . ’ |
| 25 | This level of provision represents a very substantial commitment of resources to the enterprise bodies and it should be sufficient to enable them to carry through the wide range of tasks expected of them and to build on their excellent first year of operation . |
| 26 | But some , such as the Portuguese man-of-war ( Physalia ) and the velella , have sacs full of gas , which enable them to float on the surface , trailing their poisonous tentacles to catch fish that come to browse in the surface water . |
| 27 | In a pond the temperature variations which occur from day to night will affect the buoyancy of the fish 's swimbladders , causing them to float to the water surface or sink to the bottom . |
| 28 | This caused them to sink into the ground until the crossbar was only two inches above the grass . |
| 29 | I have heard from Prudential Property Services with details of your proposed purchase of the above property for £52,000 subject to Contract and I expect that I shall be receiving the draft Contract from the vendor 's solicitors in the course of the next post but perhaps you will kindly telephone me and let me know whether you wish me to proceed with the Preliminary Enquiries arising thereon and the Local search with the East Herts District Council . |
| 30 | Accepting that " if the Slovaks want to live in an independent state , they have the right to do so " , he said nevertheless that he saw " no indication " that a majority of Slovaks wanted to secede , and he urged them to remain within the federation and not to succumb to " nationalist narrowmindedness " . |