Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FARMERS on Tealham and Tadham moors on the Somerset Levels are rushing to drain their land in order to forestall a plan by the Nature Conservancy Council to declare the area a Site of Special Scientific Interest for its rare combination of waterfowl , meadow plants and aquatic flora and fauna , Tom King , secretary of state for the environment , has already granted the council 's request for an emergency order to stop deep drains being installed on 30 hectares belonging to one farmer . |
| 2 | The Norwegian parliament reassembles on Wednesday , and on Friday the Prime Minister , Gro Harlem Brundtland , and her cabinet will present their resignations , to forestall a vote of no confidence . |
| 3 | The German explanation for the invasion of Belgium and Holland on 10 May 1940 — that it had been necessary in order to forestall a breach of neutrality by the enemy — carried less conviction than it had done in the Scandinavian operation . |
| 4 | One of them , it contends , is the ability to communicate a sense of urgency to people who work for you without haranguing and without being unpleasant . |
| 5 | This barrier becomes intensely noticeable when a member of one species needs urgently to communicate a matter of life or death to a member of another . |
| 6 | This quite different context allowed some observers of the city to communicate a view about the squalor of the Victorian legacy . |
| 7 | ‘ Which suggests a considerable ability to modify a reflex with learned behavior , ’ Dr. Briant said . |
| 8 | A few moments later he raised his head , to catch a gasp of breath and then to mutter softly in her ear , ‘ There has n't been a day — or night — in the last four years when I have n't missed you . |
| 9 | Meredith counted herself lucky to catch a space in the car park behind the supermarket as some other shopper pulled out . |
| 10 | This took us through Bedford , Northampton , Daventry and Leamington Spa to Solihull where we all managed to catch a couple of hours ‘ shut eye ’ before heading into Birmingham . |
| 11 | And it is there in his conducting of Debussy 's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune , which the English Wagnerian Reginald Goodall once singled out as conducting that managed by some unique alchemy simultaneously to catch a sense of fire and ice , sultry heat and marble calm . |
| 12 | She stopped to catch a child by the hand and whisper some word which was rewarded with a kiss , then caught the corner of her veil to cover her already masked face as the chief driver came towards her for a quick answer to a query , always given and received after the words of greeting and queries as to health had been exchanged . |
| 13 | She quoted him : on one occasion when the Princess had waved him away , pleading a cold , he had breathed back at her , ‘ It would be a privilege to catch a cold of yours . ’ |
| 14 | Judy was throwing a ball to Mandy Maddison , who was learning to catch a ball with the left hand as part of her Keep Fit Challenge . |
| 15 | Tim Skerritt had taught him how to catch a trout with his bare hands ; had taught him how to light a fire in the open without the aid of matches or flint . |
| 16 | I wondered if David had got this evening to catch a bottle of wine |
| 17 | This magnificent insect , as well as being rare , frequents the tops of oak trees , rarely descending to the forest glades , so binoculars are normally required to catch a sight of it . |
| 18 | He leaned out , perilously askew , just to catch a sight of Edward 's white face at the bottom of the ladder . |
| 19 | In some areas the water was up to four feet high in places and for people who did not want to get wet the task of crossing this water was only possible by two ways , the first being to ask to hitch a lift in one of the high performance tractors which were out being a sort of taxi service and the second option was to catch a lift in either of the boats which also appeared to offer their services . |
| 20 | It 's been a popular strategy ever since The Rolling Stones played the small marquee at the 1963 National Jazz Festival in Richmond — the event that subsequently mutated into Reading — and provoked scenes of hysteria as hundreds of excited youths abandoned the main arena and jostled to catch a whiff of this liberating new air , leaving a bewildered Acker Bilk tootling his way into the footnotes of history . |
| 21 | So he peered , leaning forward to catch a whiff of scent , listening to the man 's quiet muttering . |
| 22 | But which of us , locked behind a desk or in a queue at the supermarket check-out , has not had an overwhelming desire to drop everything , run into the street , hail a passing cab and make for the nearest airport to catch a plane to anywhere ? |
| 23 | We used to catch a lot of fish and it was always in them days you used to catch the trout in the Summer and you used to dry them on the on the dykes and hang them on the line like you could see haddocks and that drying . |
| 24 | ( The Mackinnons hosted them here twice , the second time being at the end of September after the pair had crossed the island to catch a boat for islands south of Skye . ) |
| 25 | ‘ Off the coast of Ras Al Khaimah and off the coast of Muscat , too , the Slave of the Devil has been known to catch a boat by the middle , break it — break its back and pull it down and down until all is gone . |
| 26 | In the Firthview cafe , apparently the location of some awful and localised ground subsidence since it was named , because it would have to be at least a storey taller to catch a view of the water , I had a cup of coffee and a game of Space Invaders . |
| 27 | Their ancestors had scorned and derided Vincent and now they were rich from Van Gogh postcards and souvenirs bought by people like Skye , who only came to catch a whisper of his ghost . |
| 28 | She plays a daredevil policewoman who goes undercover to catch a murderer in New York 's tight orthodox Jewish community . |
| 29 | Sufferers and families need to be able to walk to the main services in their neighbourhood or to catch a bus into a local centre no more than a mile or two away . |
| 30 | We have no need to theorise about bus timetables in order to catch a bus into town . |