Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I push through the dancers towards Tamsin , the boy sinks helpless to the deck . |
| 2 | I push through the tourists and into the Horse Guards . |
| 3 | A successful team blends these different roles together so that the strengths of one compensate for the weaknesses of another . |
| 4 | Returning now to that day in 1811 , the hair-raising events of those next few hours graphically unfold through the words of the voyagers themselves , taken from a contemporary account in The Gentleman 's Magazine : |
| 5 | According to Alexander Henderson , in The History of Ancient Wines ( 1824 ) , the ninth century saw the beginning of a distinction between the various wines of Champagne ; references henceforth distinguish between the wines of the Vallée de la Marne and those of the Montagne de Reims . |
| 6 | Some , but only some , members of the resistance distinguish between the Palestinians who were brought in by the Iraqis to do a bit of their dirty work , and Kuwait 's large and long-established Palestinian population . |
| 7 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 8 | Oh yes , er yes they were , they were er of course there was a great divide there I mean between the Liberals I mean they were the only two parties in those days . |
| 9 | The happy medium mean between the extremes of hot and cold furnishes to the chaste and sober eye all that can be wished for . ’ |
| 10 | Footsteps on a wood floor ; then silence as the feet stepped on to a rug . |
| 11 | Pesh Framjee of Binder Hamlyn 's Charities Unit agrees that fund managers are making a song and dance about the changes , ‘ but let us say there is no smoke without fire and a lot of wet leaves going round ’ . |
| 12 | Whatever the rapture of first love and the obsessiveness of courtship ( sweet old fashioned word ) and marriage , it is a class act which can retain that rapture through the rigours of parenthood , child care and mortgage repayment . |
| 13 | I have followed Star Trek for years , it will be interesting to see how the wigs change through the films ; |
| 14 | It follows that ‘ those sensations must be all that we can , at bottom , mean by their attributes ; and the distinction which we verbally make between the properties of things and the sensations we receive from them , must originate in the convenience of discourse rather than in the nature of what is signified by the terms ’ . |
| 15 | I always fear for the fingers of the Portuguese works who feed these strips through the punching machines that make the corks , deftly guiding faults in the strip away from the cutter . |
| 16 | I mean for the Republicans the purpose is a united Ireland . |
| 17 | Travel : All change for the bureaux |
| 18 | Their BMW cars purr through the streets of the capital , La Paz . |
| 19 | What can I do but intercede for the publicans |
| 20 | On the one hand , the sampling process had to generate as many categories of user as possible and so account for the variations found in the known sample relating to age , sex , class , township , and so on . |
| 21 | Do the major social divisions of class , gender and ethnicity really account for the differences ? |
| 22 | Principals of firms operating mainly from overseas offices are not taken into account for the purposes of calculating the premium payable by an MNP for indemnity insurance and the fee income from all overseas practice is excluded from the computations . |
| 23 | It will clearly be in the interest of the headtenant if the service charge is left out of account for the purposes of the rent review under the headlease . |
| 24 | IHTA 1984 , s18(2) states that if immediately before a transfer the transferor ( but not the transferor 's spouse ) is domiciled in the United Kingdom , the value in respect of which the transfer is exempt shall not exceed £55,000 less any amount previously taken into account for the purposes of that exemption . |
| 25 | It is likely that such shares ( and their acquisition ) will be taken into account for the purposes of the rule ( note to Rule 36 ) . |
| 26 | By following the ‘ golden rule ’ of black and white photography — to expose for the shadows and develop for the highlights — negative contrast can be lowered or raised according to the subject 's original tonal contrast . |
| 27 | A Having four kids of my own , I know exactly what you mean about the youngsters ! |
| 28 | Education in the United Kingdom is administered as a partnership between local authorities and central government , though the balance of power and influence between the partners is at present changing in England and Wales , with local authorities losing powers . |
| 29 | They would sit out in their deckchairs in brilliant sunshine , surveying snow-covered range after magnificent snow-covered range , and while they took refreshment , take snapshots of one another , and chatter about the delights of a winter sports holiday in the Savoy Alps , the more energetic would be trudging up from below on seal skins or swooping by from above demonstrating their skill . |
| 30 | Please pick between the lines . |