Example sentences of "[to-vb] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have to continue to invest in the field organisation and in research and development , ’ White said . |
| 2 | They had to wait to go through the time lock machine . |
| 3 | Hey mummy you know when you used to go to toilet in the middle of a conversation . |
| 4 | Nobody had criticized the Government for ‘ planning ’ the Normandy invasions , as Simon tersely argued , so it was perfectly reasonable for the Government to continue to plan after the war . |
| 5 | I want my colleagues to continue to enthuse about the job and teach effectively . |
| 6 | He added that as much as a third of BP 's oil production was expected to continue to come from the North Sea until the turn of the century . |
| 7 | This will enable us to continue to concentrate on the collision of gravitational waves . |
| 8 | I did n't get much opportunity to talk to for any length of time but she managed to arrange to meet with the others with young babies and we planned to get together again later that week . |
| 9 | I was always worried when he went to work , but y you do n't think your husband 's going to go to work in the morning at five o'clock and never come home again . |
| 10 | Also in group situations , it may be the case that the senior executives are employed by the top company , so it will be necessary if they are to continue to work for the target to negotiate with each of them a revision to their service agreements . |
| 11 | 20 THINGS YOU NEED TO PRETEND TO KNOW ABOUT THE '70s |
| 12 | He seemed to want to try to remain in the underworld while still reaching out for life 's little comforts and luxuries . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Consider someone deciding not to try to go to the theatre . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We need always therefore to try to work with the grain of the markets to achieve the required effects . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ! |
| 28 | to come to walk in the light of Salvation . |
| 29 | I know mothers have to go out to work to help with the bills but this is no new thing . |
| 30 | • If we work at night , and have to try to sleep during the daytime , we have difficulty in adjusting our habits in spite of having an ‘ active ’ environment at night and a quiet , sleep-conducive environment ( a quiet , darkened bedroom ) during the daytime . |