Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [coord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can include walking to work or to the shops , jogging , skipping , swimming or dancing . |
| 2 | It is quite often the case that the person making the arrangements has not had to do this job before and so relies heavily on what he remembers from other funerals he has attended and on the undertaker 's advice . |
| 3 | They do n't necessarily need to steal but like the excitement . |
| 4 | The Bank discusses regularly with each GEMM about the size of transactions in which it is committed to deal and about the risk exposure that it can accept . |
| 5 | The number of very young babies available has decreased and for the moment the Society has reluctantly decided to close its list to applicants seeking straightforward babies under one year . |
| 6 | It is what they want to learn and at the speed they want to learn it . |
| 7 | There has been a conspiracy of silence between the nuclear industry and the Government on providing information about the contracts that Dounreay has signed and about the discussions and negotiations that have taken place or are taking place with foreign reactors . |
| 8 | meant beauty lotions or help for someone in trouble , we are today senior citizens , a hardy bunch when you think of how the world has changed and of the adjustments we have had to make and that is |
| 9 | toilet , in Bon 's , in Dan 's loo at Bon 's party cos I 'm going round going oh no no no no I 'll give you a fiver for it I went I really do n't want to sell and in the end like I just said to him look just fuck off , you know cos like he was just persistent |
| 10 | I believe it can be made to work and with the background of the proposed Amendment and what b can be done by Parliament as a result of that , that can be a sensible way of proceeding . |
| 11 | She had quite expected him to stop the car on the way home and make a grab at her and she was all prepared to cope with it , had her little speech ready about what a wonderful evening she 'd had but at the moment she was concentrating on her career and did n't really want to waste time on that kind of thing . |
| 12 | This study primarily related to stress and to the use of alcohol and illicit drugs . |
| 13 | On the first day of the blizzard 30 of my sheep got buried and on the first night my kennel runs were covered with six feet of snow , making it difficult , if not impossible , to get the dogs out . |
| 14 | As the town began to grow and at the same time fragment in strange , squalid and unforeseen ways , the gardens became symbolic in a different fashion . |
| 15 | Significantly , the Commission did not suggest that such longer periods of detention could ever be justified by the desire to continue questioning or by the need further to interrogate . |
| 16 | And what 's more , we want to see that ice rink filled because it 's the greatest family sporting entertainment you could ever wish to see and with the crowd behind you it gives you that extra buzz . |
| 17 | The Teessiders seemed to sense that the Rokermen were starting to wilt and in the 62nd minute it looked as though Middlesbrough had finally found a way through . |
| 18 | The jury under his Lordship 's direction found that the appellant had paid all the sums which by the agreement of December 21 , 1876 , he undertook to pay and within the times therein specified . |
| 19 | Osburn 's points were that his fellow Englishmen in India , whose heartless behaviour towards Indians he described in some detail , failed to ‘ realize that the British Empire depends for its existence on obtaining the consent and the friendly co-operation of the races governed ’ , and that the demand for independence ‘ need never have arisen but for the arrogance and want of tact of a large percentage of Englishmen who , in one capacity or another , are resident in India ’ . |
| 20 | Despite some of the language problems he grew to know and like the black and white constables of the patrols to which he was attached ; and to be accepted by them as a trusted companion under fire . |
| 21 | Suppose , after all , that he had not gone to look and in the morning they had found her stiff and cold in her cot , her eyes glazed and unfocused , her lips blue ? |
| 22 | Minton went to apologise and by the end of his visit both he and Lindsay are said to have been very drunk and reconciled . |
| 23 | However , I kept trying and with the help of Mr Norman Tebbit , our then junior minister and himself a former airline pilot , the project went through . |
| 24 | After I got started and into the conversation I felt a lot more comfortable . |
| 25 | Walking or cycling to work or to the station instead of using the car , and exercising the dog regularly ( breathing deeply and keeping a good posture as we walk ) , are ways of incorporating exercise into the normal schedule . |
| 26 | After tricky negotiations between the two professors a judicious compromise was reached by which Heisenberg was allowed to pass but at the lowest level . |
| 27 | Finishing with a par 4 Stevie had won and on the morrow would be presented by the Princess with his Golden Putter . |
| 28 | Creggan hesitated to tell her but she seemed different from other vagrants he had met and in the last few days a trust had developed between them , so it seemed natural to say . |
| 29 | Our role is to propose a prudent council tax and that is what we 've done and at the end of the day I agree , the figures are juggled one way or another but it does show a net saving of one point three million and however you look at it Mr Mayor I 'm sure the leader of the council , if he adopted these proposals , could then find somewhere a sum for a stress control officer . |
| 30 | The initial allocation of system design responsibility was negotiated between the four aircraft companies , Deutsch Aerospace , British Aerospace , Carsa and Allenia and against the background of an M O U which said we must share the technology on this project between the four nations and in a particular way which ensures that each of the nations has got access to all the high technology aspects of the project er therefore the individual companies identified those areas of the project , were they felt they either could lead best or wish to lead and for the United Kingdom British Aerospace erm identified the avionics system integration as the major complex task that they would take responsibility for . |