Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rather tacky set , the lucklustre performances , the script from David Straun and Heather Williams that lurches from trite audience participation to over-the-head jokes ( would any primary-school child get the one about water privatisation ? ) , all did n't seem to matter as the company of four scampered around with their well-intentioned tale of how the white man destroyed the American Indians . |
| 2 | The superintendent explained about the name of the guest Nicola was expecting to meet . |
| 3 | The producers of public expenditure have helped increase public spending since the competition for votes has led politicians to promise more and more spending ; moreover , since governments come into office with a vast amount of spending commitments inherited from previous governments , their ability to reduce these commitments substantially is limited through the length of time that would be required to make such reductions , and further , they are unlikely to court unpopularity through doing so . |
| 4 | He got off the bike at the bridge and left it propped against the suspension cables , then walked to the middle of the swaying bridge , where the gate is . |
| 5 | He got off the mark with an uppish straight drive for four , which might have given a less myopic bowler than Malcolm a return catch , and in Malcolm 's next over , he attempted a square slash which , if he had got an edge , might have prevented him ever setting foot in India again . |
| 6 | Eastwood missed two kickable penalties before he got off the mark with a 20th minute kick after Wigan were caught offside . |
| 7 | And it was so nearly 186 for six when , two balls later , new batsman Mark Ramprakash got off the mark with an edged single which flew past slip 's left hand . |
| 8 | We only got off the unit for exercise about twice a week . |
| 9 | That 's all they got off the union at that time of the day . |
| 10 | After Muir of Ord JTR got off the train at Conon Station as did I , and walked down by the river to sketch from the Telford bridge of 1809 now replaced by a modern version built in 1969 . |
| 11 | Everyone got off the train at Winnipeg , one thousand , four hundred and thirteen miles along the rails from Toronto . |
| 12 | FORTY fans who got off the train at Peterborough and tried to board a ferry at |
| 13 | It was not so , at the beginning of each new term she found it was not so , but it seemed to be so , and the same mixture of guilt and hate and sorrow would strike her anew , each time as forcefully , each time she got off the train at Northam Station . |
| 14 | I got off the train at Greenwich — it was a fine evening — I was just walking … |
| 15 | I got off the train at Central Station . |
| 16 | When she got off the train from Chertsey she did n't have enough money to take an omnibus . |
| 17 | She got off the bus at the next stop , and went back to the building , pushing the children in a collapsible pushchair , which had a propensity only to collapse when occupied . |
| 18 | They got off the bus at Holborn and got a train to Mile End , from there taking another train to Ilford . |
| 19 | When she got off the bus at her usual stop , even the moderate leafiness of the district contributed to her hopes , and she saw , fleetingly , the features that caused it to be described by others as a desirable residential area . |
| 20 | When Benny got off the bus on the Quays , she saw Eve waiting , with her raincoat collar turned up against the rain . |
| 21 | My mother brought the food home at night , buying it each day when she got off the bus from work . |
| 22 | At a quarter past seven she got off the bus in Bath worrying that he might stand her up . |
| 23 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 24 | It got off the ground in Berlin in 1982 despite an atmosphere of increasing pressure on funds for all forms of higher education in Berlin as elsewhere in West Germany . |
| 25 | This clash between the old rivals seldom got off the ground in terms of entertainment value , but the more adventurous team won the day . |
| 26 | The Michelin guide to Perigord will reveal a castle either preserved or in ruins at each of these places , though one would need to go off the map to Mareuil-sur-Belle , as well as Vieux-Mareuil , to identify all the three donjons which Pound speaks of in that vicinity . |
| 27 | Franco Ferrero wishes to apologize for the delay in sending out his Kayak & Mountain brochure but by now it should be on the way to all who requested it . |
| 28 | It is the older wife in a divorce case , who has no recent contact with the labour market or a poor earning capacity , who has sometimes much to lose through the ending of her marriage . |
| 29 | As to direct selling , she believed that seeing off the threat of publishers was even easier : ‘ No publisher can supply all the books a school needs . ’ |
| 30 | But seeing off Michael Meacher proved substantially easier than seeing off the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |