Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Valley Hotel is ideally situated to appeal to the overnight tourist , mid-week and weekend break markets . |
| 2 | As we shall find , they became embroiled in the nationalist struggle . |
| 3 | Because the child would n't go into the sea , she had her taught to swim in the local baths . |
| 4 | The leader is in good health and , in Maginnis 's opinion , should stay to see through the current phase — at least until the Government agrees to a select committee for Northern Ireland , whether or not there is any devolution . |
| 5 | Despite this , we still tend to cling to the traditional . |
| 6 | The Headmaster was helping prepare for the grand event and was so confident it would be a success , he had contacted a specialist to come to take the Bookman away when caught . |
| 7 | The extent to which management powers over generation were devolved depended on the central triumvirate of Citrine , Self and Hacking , and not on a statutorily entrenched position . |
| 8 | We have thus tried to fit to the NMR data by imposing these ε values ( on one junction at a time ) while also constraining the sugar puckers to agree with the COSY data . |
| 9 | He knew that if he kept under the trees , he should be able to crest the Monument yet remain hidden from the mysterious workers . |
| 10 | Post-production editing is a boon if you are uncertain as to what you will want to include in the final version of the video . |
| 11 | I did not want to go into the dark house , where I would spend the evening quietly with old Mrs Fairfax . |
| 12 | The adventurers will probably want to go through the usual routine of tipping the earth out of the coffin , smashing it , and suchlike , but then they have the pressing problem of getting out of this room . |
| 13 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you want to go to the giving-out-food woman and say there 's three small hungry people down here ? ’ |
| 15 | We do n't want to go in the other room and watch the nasties do we ? |
| 16 | Glass had his first contact with non-Western music in Morocco where he became fascinated by the geometric repetitions of Islamic art . |
| 17 | AT LEAST two people were killed and 80 injured when a car bomb exploded in the heart of the City of London last night in a suspected IRA attack timed to detract from the Tory General Election victory celebrations . |
| 18 | Consideration should be given to include in the Direct Journal a supplement possibly entitled Health and Safety Direct to the Membership . |
| 19 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 20 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 21 | Some 171 full members and 107 alternate members ( with 300 other sundry officials looking on ) met to agree on the new ‘ proposals for the ten-year programme ( 1991–2000 ) and eighth five-year plan ( 1991–95 ) ’ . |
| 22 | Are there sufficient staff in the organisation prepared to promote nursing in the local community ? |
| 23 | But they also wanted a lift into town and we agreed to go to the Hard Rock Café in Honolulu together that night . |
| 24 | This should be particularly kept in mind when the patient to be treated belongs to the common people . " |
| 25 | The series of which this book is a part was intended to go beyond the conventional textbook by introducing its readers to sources and methods . |
| 26 | Since a given project is very rarely repeated , project management is the business of managing variety ; benefits tend to flow from the effective exploitation rather than the reduction thereof . |
| 27 | It was a dramatic and impractical outfit of a kind I only expected to see on the male models who posed in the more outlandish fashion magazines that our rich clients brought aboard Wavebreaker , yet Jesse Isambard Sweetman managed to wear the elaborate style with an elegant insouciance . |
| 28 | But that 's about all the world 's media , camped outside his house in Park Road in Abingdon , got to see of the retired bank manager . |
| 29 | The Government 's immediate choice this week was hardly calculated to appeal to the prime minister . |
| 30 | In fact , unreasonable behaviour is often used as a means of getting a quickie divorce where husband and wife both want one but do n't want to wait for the two-year separation period ; and because the age of chivalry is still not dead , men are often willing to let their wives petition for divorce when the fault is fifty-fifty , or even when the women are more to blame . |