Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ( 9 ) The Court of Session may , by act of sederunt , make rules for the conduct of proceedings under this section .
2 She got the ceiling decorated and made improvements to the entrance to make it more welcoming .
3 If he is able to claim privilege for the document , a copy may be admitted instead of the original .
4 Er we have n't used very much of it this year I mean I think er I mentioned a few weeks ago the , the question of trips out perhaps in the spring to do fish and that , we could consider er we do n't want to just go er accumulating money for the sake of it erm , we want to get some benefit out of the money we 've got .
5 ‘ Did your grandfather have any favourite hymns ? ’ the priest asked William before the service .
6 Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform .
7 And so me brother and I , who was a twin , were put into the choir as probationers , like today 's police force , and after twelve months we 'd passed all the necessary tests for the vicar and became chororists with the choir and graduated through it .
8 Spinal trabecular bone mineral density was measured in the anterior part of the first three lumbar vertebrae by quantitative computed tomography ( Philips Tomoscan 350 CT scanner ) using amodification of the method of Cann and Genant .
9 Not all expatriates receive company cars and so employers may provide car loans or make payment towards the cost of shipping an employee 's car from home .
10 she 'll want money for the deposit and and whatever she gets .
11 Johnson said no , I 'm gon na write these plays , I 'm gon na earn money for them , and then I 'm gon na publish them , I 'll earn money from the publication .
12 Distance from Shanariah , coupled with enormous tithes to the Church and the fact that many of the Ixmarite hierarchy owned estates in the district and were therefore friends and neighbours , guaranteed the residents a certain freedom of belief .
13 He made patterns in the space , first up and down , then diagonally across , always within the open area between the stream and the thicket .
14 Suzi made patterns in the sugar with her spoon .
15 Rohmer tried to hit Cardiff in the face with his other free fist , but Cardiff was expecting it .
16 First , there were the blue-blooded man-about-town types who had perhaps not — generally speaking — enjoyed the greatest success in their commercial and professional careers , who were restless , and saw executive search as an institutionalised old-boy network , in which they could make the most of their old contacts and make money without the need for major capital investment , and who misguidedly thought that it would be an easy living .
17 For example , a building contractor whose company builds houses for the council should decline to become a member of the housing committee and so avoid innuendos which would otherwise follow .
18 He soon started to gather illustrations for The Tourist 's New Guide to the Lake District , but as with the Manchester plan , it took much longer than he had hoped , and the final version was not published until 1819 .
19 ( ii ) Changing house — Most court orders relate to a specific property and do not make provision for the wife moving house and occupying another property upon similar terms and conditions .
20 If the landlord proves the stronger , the draftsman should make provision for the assessment of rent for empty property .
21 If the term of the new lease is to exceed , say , five years , the draftsman should make provision for the inclusion in the new lease of machinery for reviewing the rent .
22 Relocation policies may make provision for the payment of storage charges , for instance at Cadbury Schweppes and VAG .
23 Such orders may make provision for the examination of witnesses , either orally or in writing ; for the production of documents ; for the inspection , photographing , preservation , custody or detention of any property ; for the taking of samples of any property and the carrying out of any experiments on or with any property ; for the medical examination of any person ; and for the taking and testing of samples of blood from any person .
24 The professor shall have the charge of such laboratory or department and of such collections as may be assigned to him by decree , and shall make provision for the lighting , warming , water-supply , and cleansing of the buildings assigned to him .
25 The Government has indicated it will make provision in the Bill for such an amendment .
26 The parties can make provision in the agreement for a different measure of damages which , for example , may be appropriate if the acquirer is to invest large amounts of money in the offeree and hence could lose much more than merely the purchase consideration .
27 International Law so far as this Court is concerned , is the body of doctrine regarding the international rights and duties of States which has been adopted and made part of the Law of Scotland .
28 Unix System Labs ' top brass has been meeting with the Russian Minister of Higher Education about getting Unix made part of the curriculum .
29 This offers support for the idea ( in those practices with at least one partner with a special interest in diabetes ) of concentrating diabetic care on that partner , thus reinforcing that general practitioner 's skills .
30 DULÉ SKIMMED INTO shore silently , under cover of darkness , and threaded through the banana fronds and mango groves to Ariel 's cabin ; a leaf here , a twig there gave under him , but the English sailor posted watch in the clearing was fast asleep and the others would not have woken from their stone weariness if Dulé had hallooed at them .
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