Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marjorie steeled herself , asked to see the vet again , and said she would stay while Lizzie was put to sleep . |
| 2 | In Chapter 14 we saw how moral hazard and adverse selection tend to inhibit the setting up of insurance markets to deal with risk . |
| 3 | ‘ Exclusive ’ fostering , where the foster-parents tend to treat the child rather as though he [ or she ] were their own or they had adopted him [ or her ] , is thought to be damaging to the child 's identity , as well as hindering restoration to the natural parents . |
| 4 | This does give Europe the possibility of a role , perhaps in bringing the war to an end , when unwise forces in Washington may want to continue the war too long , and also to play a role in clearing up the mess afterwards , although its going to be a terrifying mess . |
| 5 | If you do not want to lose the patterns currently in the knitting machine , you can upload them to DesignaKnit and save them on to disk , ready to be downloaded back to the knitting machine when required . |
| 6 | We do n't want to lose the men so we 've got them here . |
| 7 | There are two points here : the first is that no matter how substantial is one 's background in user education , advice can become steadily less relevant with the passage of time unless a determined effort is made to keep contact with the users to be instructed ; ie to continue to instruct the user personally . |
| 8 | In Nina 's stories it is Modigliani who was pushed off the bench , made to carry the beer in for a party . |
| 9 | Adrian was sent home from school after a school outing to the zoo with a note for his father asking poor old dad to go to see the Headmaster immediately . |
| 10 | First , it involves bringing the exclusion directly to the attention of the buyer . |
| 11 | Cos I go , Steven goes erm , Steven goes bring the , to Shelley , he goes bring the mother-fuckers down like that . |
| 12 | This involves allowing the children home on trial , a practice that has increased sharply since 1948 , and taking whatever steps are necessary to rehabilitate the family so that full parental responsibility can be resumed . |
| 13 | In addition , the mass picketing outside Grunwick 's works was intended to publicize the dispute rather than cause violent obstruction , as with Arthur Scargill 's massed legions at the Saltley coke depot in 1972 . |
| 14 | You had to go a-shoeing the horse as best you could . |
| 15 | In 208 he writes : ‘ I want to ask : what constitutes seeing the figure now like this , now another way ? |
| 16 | He said suing the building society would only delay matters and make resolving the problem more costly . |
| 17 | This involves reconstruing the situation so that it looks more straightforward and easy to handle , thus allowing sides to be taken or a stance adopted which reduces the confusion and allows at least some action to be taken — a villain to be defeated , a wrong to be righted , a battle to be fought . |
| 18 | The question was intended to discover the reasons why it might be perceived to be SF , given that it already is so perceived . |
| 19 | I am sure that one of my ministerial colleagues will want to inform the House tomorrow . |
| 20 | Already , on the dock below , taxis were lining up , waiting for passengers who might want to tour the island independently , rather than join the organised excursions by coach . |
| 21 | These considerations tend to blur the distinction somewhat . |
| 22 | So he should want to know the truth too . |
| 23 | Yet Gowrie 's son was , in 1600 , apparently prepared to risk abducting the king yet again , luring him to the House of Gowrie in Perth with a fanciful story about a mysterious pot of gold . |
| 24 | It 's not a human characteristic which simply emerges at adolescence — though the changes associated with puberty tend to concentrate the mind powerfully on our sexuality at that stage . |
| 25 | Factually , it is the operation of the port and opening of the Gillingham Gate throughout 24 hours which is calculated to attract the vehicles up and down those roads in the immediate vicinity of the port . |
| 26 | They 'd paid 98 pounds for travel insurance , but now they 've learnt that the travel agent failed to pass the premium on to the insurance company and they 're not entitled to a refund . |
| 27 | A first time cross from Ennis caused panic among the United defenders and Michael Smith , playing in his first game since his signing earlier this week , pounced to hammer the ball goalwards . |
| 28 | I 've visited at least two or three times each year since then and I still hesitate to claim to know the area really well . |
| 29 | But we 'd have brought him round when he got to know the club better . ’ |
| 30 | One source on the BBC 's Spanish set said : ‘ It was always envisaged harder stories would be introduced when people got to know the characters well enough . ’ |