Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb base] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When someone hears the national team news , could they e-mail me or mail the list , as r.s.s is increasingly poor at giving information like this . |
| 2 | At this stage there will be a decision to do nothing or pursue the issue . |
| 3 | If they turn all their power on Forteviot , we either have to do nothing or cross the river ourselves and give battle . |
| 4 | Many of them never wanted to lend overseas in the first place , but were forced into it by the internationalization of American commerce ; as their local clientele expanded into foreign trade , they had no choice but to follow them or lose the business to the money-center banks . |
| 5 | If certain key individuals have still not arrived start without them or cancel the meeting . |
| 6 | Stop em and have the stuff on them . |
| 7 | All of us are very good at blaming ourselves if things go wrong and feeling upset , but we must be fair with ourselves and take the credit when things go well . |
| 8 | ‘ We can exert ourselves and win the battle for funding for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 9 | Its methods may improve our understanding of our patients and ourselves and form the basis for behavioural changes , on which reduction of the risks of the disease still largely depend . |
| 10 | Living is never an exact science and we invariably over reach ourselves and destroy the balance of things . |
| 11 | The young man who has been married at the same time as his peers does not share his wife with them nor do the wives share their husbands . |
| 12 | Given the very real threat of political vetting , many in the community think it is better to say nothing than risk the wrath of government . |
| 13 | I would rather abandon Eton , Winchester , Harrow and all the rest of them than sacrifice the advantage of the grammar school . ’ |
| 14 | But we make common cause in attaching more significance to them than do the theories ( except perhaps for Idealism ) discussed so far . |
| 15 | " Covetous persons and extortioners and them that grind the faces of the poor , God shall judge . " |
| 16 | The Turks cautiously did nothing except invite the powers to maintain the Berlin settlement . |
| 17 | He said the RSSPCC would unconditionally oppose the programme ‘ on the simple principle that this can do nothing except prolong the distress and damage of the children , ’ regardless of the rights or wrongs of the authorities ' handling of the case . |
| 18 | If the workers fail to perform , the supervisor will guarantee to do the job himself or assist the workers to do it . |
| 19 | Much of the exercise was done in front of a mirror so that he could see for himself and correct the sag on the right side where his ribs had been removed . |
| 20 | All the different interest groups have suddenly been allowed to come out into the open and in some cases it is a question of each for himself and damn the rest . ’ |
| 21 | He resigned himself and let the car drift back to a comfortable fifty-yard gap . |
| 22 | Believing that all he had to do was crown himself and slay the princes , Malekith marched into the sacred flame , confident that like his father before him he could endure the ordeal . |
| 23 | One of the things he was NEVER NEVER allowed to do , the most exciting of them all , was to go out through the garden gate all by himself and explore the world beyond . |
| 24 | It took several moments for him to orientate himself and wipe the sleep from his eyes . |
| 25 | An individual might build a local paper from nothing and retain the ownership intact . |
| 26 | But there was always them as just wanted to come and do nothing and pick the money up and that 's what they had to sort out the firms . |
| 27 | Particularly when good applicants are in short supply advertisements placed in Teachers ' Centres and nearby colleges , faculties and institutes of education cost nothing and improve the trawl . |
| 28 | He did this both to frighten me and amuse the Queen . |
| 29 | As soon as it 's light , my old school chums Finlayson , Richards and Callaghan will come with me and patrol the area Roeux-Riencourt . |
| 30 | ‘ I know all about your plans to marry me and get the company . ’ |