Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 7 It 's terrific to see her without the bars between us. 8 She sits eating the treat food at the opening to the door and looking at me. 9 How does she know to look into my eyes and not at the huge finger next to her .
2 I used Acrylix brushes to paint the landscape study shown here .
3 The work , which is interesting but time-consuming , involves maintaining the almshouse , or the Dakyn Flats as it is now more popularly known , and other properties owned by the trust and from which rents are collected .
4 The list of recipient church projects is very long , ranging from refurbishment of church buildings to small revenue grants to enable the establishment of local good neighbour ( community care ) schemes .
5 In the meantime , drivers Frank Galashan and Danny Hopkins are keeping the Waste Recycling lorry moving by taking it in turns to drive the vehicle to Leslie .
6 Enumerating known drug users involves contacting the management representatives of statutory and voluntary agencies whose clienteles include drug users , in order to obtain permission to collect information about these clients .
7 First , it involves bringing the exclusion directly to the attention of the buyer .
8 It involves bringing the piece itself before a Committee of State experts ; they declare its value and charge 100% Custom fees .
9 As a mode of explanation it involves bringing the outside in , and linking the particular to the general .
10 Until such time as the Secretary of State agrees to such a Commission , the Council agrees to support the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities ' call for a policy of non-co-operation between the Authority and The Scottish Office over the question of local government reorganisation .
11 Prior to the Peres visit , Japan had on Dec. 4 issued a call for an end to the Arab economic boycott of Israel , as a response to recent Israeli guarantees to curb the building of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories .
12 Cos I go , Steven goes erm , Steven goes bring the , to Shelley , he goes bring the mother-fuckers down like that .
13 This concentrates on it but builds builds the platform on which other courses on advanced presentation skills and negotiation skills team presentation skills are all founded and so you 're able to er continue through er the courses .
14 A crucial clement in family therapy involves encouraging the autonomy of family members in working out their own solutions to problems and taking responsibility for their own actions , the therapist acting largely as an independent facilitator .
15 The second error involves completing the sentence fragment with an inappropriate type of content .
16 As such , it involves using the survey as a method which , through its design , allows for the testing of theoretically derived hypotheses : this was partly consequent upon the development of statistical methodology .
17 This can produce bad posture and always involves using the eyes .
18 The process involves using the ants as tools , and is achieved in one of two ways .
19 Ergativity involves using the object of a transitive verb as the subject of an intransitive verb : cf. An explosion shook the room and The room shook ( with the explosion ) .
20 The Japanese machines will knit lace from specially produced and marked cards and this involves using the lace carriage for many transfer rows in between two knitted rows with the main carriage .
21 Finally , the formulation stage involves using the results of the assessment process to identify objectives , plans , and strategies .
22 The piece also involves using the potential of the spindle moulder to create solid shapes .
23 She agrees to go the city council and lodge a complaint .
24 Today the department of transport said only that it ontinues to support the council 's road safety measures .
25 This involves helping the patient develop alternative and less self-blaming ideas about how other people behave towards her , and examining with her the origins and validity of her underlying sense of worthlessness .
26 This involves allowing the children home on trial , a practice that has increased sharply since 1948 , and taking whatever steps are necessary to rehabilitate the family so that full parental responsibility can be resumed .
27 The work also involves relocating the kitchen and lounge area to the ground floor and resiting the main entrance .
28 For example , a rule that prohibits bringing the exchange into disrepute can not be read cold from the rulebook .
29 In 208 he writes : ‘ I want to ask : what constitutes seeing the figure now like this , now another way ?
30 The task usually involves explaining the meanings other people 's actions have to them and , because these are rarely isolated or intelligible in isolation , re-creating other mental worlds .
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