Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He seemed to want to try to remain in the underworld while still reaching out for life 's little comforts and luxuries . |
| 32 | She prayed for Oliver to come crashing into the flat and take control . |
| 33 | But environmental standards , as I see it , and whatever form now , whether in the posh green sense or the nitty gritty sense , which is equally as important and sometimes forgotten , environmental standards transcend , obviously transcend politics and so what I want to , would would would want to do , is to try to strip off the politics and indeed to strip off the emotion , because that 's the other thing which I think affects any real consideration of environmental issues . |
| 34 | Those three weeks had thrown up a heartening variety of political allegiances in the tree-lined avenue but all happy agreements to differ evaporated in the wake of John Major 's sinister victory . |
| 35 | There is a range of behavioural methods which animals use to try to cope with the conditions , and again we can make measurements of how much they are having to use these . |
| 36 | There would have to be some sort of Council meeting , anyway , held somewhere out of Edward 's reach , to try to cope with the situation . |
| 37 | Members of the public are expressly asked not to gather on Albert Road or Russell Street , or to climb on buildings to try to see inside the Mayor 's parlour . |
| 38 | Certainly we do not need to try to go into the whole causal history of an event in order to specify something — one of the many sets of things — that had the property of making the occurrence of the event necessary . |
| 39 | Consider someone deciding not to try to go to the theatre . |
| 40 | All reviewers have to try to stand outside the immediate context of their listening , but that can be hard to do at the same time as keeping all emotional wavelengths open . |
| 41 | In 1974 an attempt to begin to restore self-government through a new Northern Ireland Executive , elected by proportional representation to try to provide for the involvement of the Catholic minority in government , was brought to an end after a strike by Protestant workers . |
| 42 | First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests . |
| 43 | He was sufficiently troubled by Malcolm 's bouncer to stand frozen at the crease and take it on the helmet , but sufficiently brave to try to hook the inevitable follow-up . |
| 44 | On June 18 Shamir continued his efforts to appear committed to the peace process , proposing in an interview with the Egyptian magazine Mayyu to invite President Hafez al-Assad of Syria to visit Jerusalem for peace talks , and declaring his willingness to talk to any " elected Arab representative " from the West Bank or Gaza ( but not Jerusalem ) . |
| 45 | She had given him no opportunity to indicate that there was an old friend with him — not that there was , at that point , but there might have been , and if there had been , it was hardly his fault if Alexandra had chosen to come knocking on the door without giving him a chance to explain — and then getting stroppy when she found someone had got there before her . |
| 46 | But all the other animals had grown so suspicious of El-ahrairah and his tricks that they would not let him out of that wretched country and every day Prince Rainbow used to come walking through the marshes to make sure that El-ahrairah was still there . |
| 47 | We need always therefore to try to work with the grain of the markets to achieve the required effects . |
| 48 | The Tudeh Party appears initially to have decided to try to work within the new system , but was later subjected to pressure , especially in 1984 . |
| 49 | The principal objective of the campaign is to encourage walking by the promotion of demonstration pedestrian priority projects , which would act as models of good practice and thus provide guidance to local authorities and , metaphorically , a rallying point for pedestrians . |
| 50 | Phantasy is that part of mental functioning which continues to work according to the pleasure principle , even after the emergence of the reality principle in mental life . |
| 51 | He was tall , lean , shock-haired and deeply tanned : humorous of mien and colloquial of speech , he was the last person one would expect to find wandering through the groves of Academe . |
| 52 | BANGOR — Coach George Blackwood has captured striker Kerri Kidd ( Ballynahinch ) , Robin Moran ( East Antrim ) and Stephen Cumper ( Cliftonville ) to try consolidate in the top flight . |
| 53 | Therefore , should we not use our strength and influence to try to organise throughout the west a Marshall plan , similar to the one after the second world war , to strengthen the hands of those who are doing their utmost to stave off anything approximating to anarchy ? |
| 54 | Sobibor was the scene of the biggest prison escape of the Second World War when six hundred Jews rose against their guards to try to escape to the surrounding forest . |
| 55 | With a corporation that is in trouble a lot of actions might make things worse so the natural tendency is to try to escape from the present troubles by setting a specific objective and moving towards that . |
| 56 | These headaches seldom arise today , possibly because sponsors have had to accept paying over the odds for players in the headlines . |
| 57 | Unless those eight masked High Masters were sufficiently confident in their associates to try to journey to the next galaxy and back — in some incredible megaship — to take advantage of time-compression ! |
| 58 | Now she thought that if she had to clear the table once more , put the few plates in the dish-washer , put the cereal packet away , brush the crumbs from the table top , she would scream and go on screaming : scream until the plaster started to crack from the walls and the neighbours gathered to stand whispering outside the window and the cat fled in terror . |
| 59 | Studies undertaken to observe browsing in the shelf consultation show that the user handles a limited number of items in the process and ultimately selects but a few . |
| 60 | The lines from Sheffield and Wath were always difficult to work owing to the heavy traffic and steep inclines , so the LNER started a programme of electrification in 1936 . |