Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was one of those days when snow fell all day without sticking and the cold seemed to penetrate right to the bone . |
| 32 | Now when the buses pull up there , they 've got to double park and it completely blocks the road , I mean you 've either got to swing right round the bus on the wrong side of the road and you know you could easily run into something coming the other way . |
| 33 | A concrete breakwater stretches away to sink slowly in the dark distance . |
| 34 | Such an approach can encourage low expectations and a failure to attend properly to the needs of children other than those with ‘ problems ’ . |
| 35 | To ‘ forget ’ pop is to renege fundamentally upon the ( over-determining ) intentions of punk . |
| 36 | In most cases , the buyer thus prefers to include such a right expressly , which he can then invoke at his discretion in situations where the defects in the initial delivery of goods are so severe that he loses confidence in the ability of the seller to perform properly under the contract at all . |
| 37 | The girl then had to sit nervously on the edge of the sofa — there were n't many chairs — while the guest stretched himself , yawning , naked and sweaty . |
| 38 | The first — which will start in April next year , and run for three years — is a new system of transitional protection for those households that stand to lose most from the abolition of domestic rates . |
| 39 | The fish tend to spawn all around the same time and pay attention to their own broods — equally the parents will see off any attempt by another pair to eat their brood . |
| 40 | Logo for the Mondiale , also guaranteed to sink deeper into the cool vernacular of the global village ( see inevitably Italia , World Cup Willie ) . |
| 41 | For all the world as if she and Miss Beard were ladies of quality , he ceremoniously handed them into the carriage , the two of them to sit together in the back , while Herbert Fraser sat beside Sean in the front . |
| 42 | Apparently he thought that she and Mitch would get into no end of mischief if they were allowed to sit together in the back . |
| 43 | It is good for leaders to be aware of these if only to see that to gather together towards the Lord may take some time . |
| 44 | For visitors willing to penetrate deeper into the Südstadt , Galerie der Spiegel at Bonnerstrasse 328 will exhibit small sculptures , models and sketches by Bozetti , and still further south , Galerie Gmurzynska , at Goethestrasse 65 , will have a double exhibition of Malévich and Ellsworth Kelly . |
| 45 | there should be a requirement for firms to report quarterly on the adequacy of their financial resources ; |
| 46 | The pastel-coloured costumes were at once demure and provocative ; fitted tight from throat to hip , they clung to every line of the delicate , high-breasted figures , heightening the allure of slender shoulders , tiny waists and the swell of young Ranks ; below the waist , however , the gossamer-light , side-split skirts and billowing trousers of white silk shrouded legs and thighs in secrecy , and to Chuck and Joseph the exotic girls of Saigon seemed not to walk but to float gently beneath the tamarinds on the evening breeze . |
| 47 | I was able to breathe only with the utmost difficulty , and my arm hurt like hell . |
| 48 | More and more armies were becoming reliable though still very cumbersome machines , mechanisms which could be relied on to perform competently on the battlefield the evolutions in which they had been trained , and to stand enemy fire without flinching . |
| 49 | Then another gap , just six months , before he got a barmaid from Ipswich who 'd been visiting her granny and was daft enough to wait alone for the late bus . |
| 50 | It now made open confession of its inability to cope alone with the crisis initiated by Perry 's arrival . |
| 51 | But for three hours singers , orchestra and audience ( many of the latter stading ) had to wait impatiently in the overheated atmosphere until the opera should begin . |
| 52 | The Sun Life West League and the South Wales League are planning to flow together in the 1993–4 season at first XI level , with the cream of the Welsh teams joining the West 's Premier Division . |
| 53 | ‘ I do n't suppose you had time to see much on the way here ? ’ |
| 54 | The member states will also have to report annually to the commission on the amount and type of waste shipped . |
| 55 | The legal aid scheme is kept under constant review by the Legal Aid Board , which is required to report annually to the Lord Chancellor on the discharge of its functions . |
| 56 | Harper had told the court he twice briefly lit tufts of hay in order to see better in the darkened barn . |
| 57 | Harper , no relation to the girls , of Homecroft Drive , Uckington , admitted he had twice briefly lit tufts of hay to see better in the darkened barn . |
| 58 | Hilton tells him to wait patiently in the darkness and acclimatise himself to this new existence , stripped of all the things that had made life worthwhile before . |
| 59 | And did the fourth consecutive Tory victory imply that Her Majesty 's loyal Opposition was destined to remain so for the foreseeable future ? |
| 60 | If we aggregate together everyone in that ‘ dependent ’ age group , i.e. , those below the age of 16 and above pensionable ages remembering the heaviest demands on services are made at each end of the age range , the percentage of dependants to total UK population has indeed remained remarkably stable throughout this century — 30 per cent in 1901 , 36 per cent in 1951 , 41 per cent in 1977 — and it is likely to remain so for the remainder of the century ; it is projected to be 40 per cent in 2001 ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 21 ; table 5.4 ) . |