Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Torrance , who has played in the last six Ryder Cup matches and badly wants to figure in the next at the Belfry in September , shot his 69 despite having a nose bleed for the first time in his life early in the morning , then again on the course . |
| 2 | There are times when prejudice only contributes to conflict in the narrow band of outlook and experience where that prejudice exists . |
| 3 | For these people , the last word in radical chic is Brut Soap-on-a-Rope ; they dress as though they have stepped straight from the pages of a Seventies mail-order catalogue ; they consider a good night out to be crowding into the only working public telephone box , and , hyperventilating in their over-excitement , taking it in turns to listen to the talking clock . |
| 4 | Arrangements were also made for two firemen to take it in turns to sleep on the premises and instructions were given to these men to go all round the shops after the Works are closed and ‘ inspect every hole and corner to see if there is any sign of fire and afterwards to sleep on the premises so as to be ready in case of accident ’ . |
| 5 | We had to take it in turns to sleep on the floor . |
| 6 | This was followed by a solo T.4 trip before a pre-solo dual check in the PR.3 — with first the student and then the QFI taking it in turns to quiver on the rumble seat ! |
| 7 | Accepting without question his uncle 's explanation that , as captain , he can not be too directly concerned with the minutiae of shipboard life , the boy eagerly agrees to spy on the seamen and find out their weaknesses and their delinquencies . |
| 8 | In the case of expressions output on channels or assigned to variables this expression only needs to hold in the context of the strongest enclosing boolean . |
| 9 | It may be thought unwise to present a young a artist in repertoire as familiar and well-recorded as this , but one only needs to listen to the first minute of track one , the F major Sonata , to realise that Haefliger is in complete command and has something unique to offer , namely youthful energy , dash and charisma . |
| 10 | Yet one only needs to travel in the town on Saturdays to see well clothed and healthy children and upstanding young men and women , to realise that the people of this country are better off than they have ever been . |
| 11 | Yet one only needs to travel in the town on Saturdays to see well clothed and healthy children and upstanding young men and women , to realise that the people of this country are better off than they have ever been . |
| 12 | The borough council only needs to look to the example of Durham County Council which has given £100,000 to the Bowes Museum for its centenary celebrations to see how important local heritage is . |
| 13 | The truth usually only starts to emerge in the reports , inquiries and learned articles that follow the trial that follows the scandal that heralds the emergence of a new ‘ social issue ’ . |
| 14 | A man only starts to worry about the virginity of his bride or the virtue of his wife when he wants to breed an heir . |
| 15 | When compulsory environmental impact statements are produced for Parliament for a private or hybrid Bill , the promoter obviously has to pay for the environmental impact assessment . |
| 16 | When the temperature gradient exceeds a critical value , convection currents start — the liquid all wants to rise to the top of the layer , but some must fall to the bottom . |
| 17 | The predictions of the effective theory of fluid mechanics are not exact — one only has to listen to the weather forecast to realize that — but they are good enough for the design of ships or oil pipelines . |
| 18 | Hereford and Worcester has already voted for a similar ban , Northamptonshire 's decision only has to go to the full council , and Gloucestershire votes next week . |
| 19 | One only has to look at the diminishing casts in productions all over the country . |
| 20 | One only has to look at the woodcuts of Henri II 's entry into Rouen in 1550 — which Mary very probably witnessed — to get a breath-taking impression of the splendour of royal pageantry , with the king himself riding on a chariot of immense size and grandeur , accompanied by heavily caparisoned elephants . |
| 21 | To see how destructive such an inflation can be , one only has to look at the hyperinflation which occurred in Germany in 1922–23 . |
| 22 | One only has to look at the achievements of David Gower , Monica Seles , John McEnroe and Jimmy White , to mention just a few , to realise that left-handers can excel at their chosen sport . |
| 23 | One only has to look at the statistics to see how unrepresentative Xuxa 's world is . |
| 24 | One only has to look at the halving of the value of the youth training allowance and the way in which young people between the ages of 16 and 18 can no longer claim benefit , including housing benefit . |
| 25 | One only has to look at the Shropshire structure plan in which I was involved last year , and the Department of the Environment in that case had allowed the facility for new settlement without locational criteria . |
| 26 | If the landlord of an Assured Shorthold Tenant wants possession of the premises he only has to prove to the Court the following three things : |
| 27 | To understand why Idealism became dominant in the early years one only has to think about the event that led to the establishment of the subject , namely , the First World War . |
| 28 | Obviously , I 'm just giving you the down-side , if you 're going to be there in your office , and you know you 're going to be there , you 're not going to dash off , or if you are , you can hear your phone ringing , erm it 's very , very handy , and in fact it 's smoother , because the person phoning in gets to speak to the person they want to speak to , not half a day , half a week later , alright ? |
| 29 | Much seems to depend upon the circumstances of the particular case . |
| 30 | Much appears to rest on the attitudes of the children themselves . |