Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The couple gave just a hint of the trauma they faced in an open letter thanking the press for allowing them to put together the pieces of their relationship in private . |
| 2 | These otherwise humble humans are almost totally deaf ( well , they can hear after a fashion and even utter a few ponderously slow , deep drawling growls , but they only use these sounds for rudimentary purposes like communicating with each other ; they do n't seem capable of using them to detect even the most massive objects ) . |
| 3 | Darrow and Govan were the first to identify with any certainty which ions were lost in diarrhoea and the quantities involved , thereby enabling them to state accurately the required make-up of an intravenous infusion aimed at replacing lost nutrients . |
| 4 | He wants you to destroy willingly the barrier you 've erected between Him and you . |
| 5 | Then take the matter of the car jack which , according to Bourke , he smuggled in to Blake who used it to prise away the window bars in order to make his escape from D block . |
| 6 | Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to cut loose the lifeboat , which dropped heavily into the water . |
| 7 | ‘ You do n't expect me to give away the tricks of the trade , do you ? ’ snapped Casey Kucharyk , who was to win Amateur Class II ( up to 5ft 9in ) . |
| 8 | He showed this to me and told me to note especially the inscription on the coin 's obverse side : ‘ O.A. Paykhull cast this gold by chemical art at Stockholm , 1706 . ’ |
| 9 | With these saws , a knob directly above the blade allows you to turn just the chuck rather than the whole body of the saw — especially useful in tight corners . |
| 10 | That 's an immense chunk of grant to allocate early on but it allows you to budget carefully the meagre remains . |
| 11 | Essentially what we will see between nineteen forty six and nineteen forty nine is a controlled explosion when the Chinese Communist Party quite systematically and deliberately harnesses this vast pool of discontented humanity and uses it to sweep away the Kuomintang regime . |
| 12 | On Aug. 9 , when the aircraft carrier Clémenceau was directed to the Gulf area , President Mitterrand said that France 's long-standing friendly relations with Iraq , and support during its war with Iran , " allows us to say all the more clearly that we accept neither the aggression against Kuwait nor the annexation which followed " . |
| 13 | This allows us to describe uniquely the position of any point in a plane ( or in space ) by an ordered pair ( or trio ) of numbers , called coordinates . |
| 14 | It also allows us to consider directly the implications of the object as physical form which mediates between the subjective and objective worlds , and to do so within an anthropological mode sensitive to the specificity of culture . |
| 15 | The antithetical models of design 's significance that we possess today , all of which contain implicitly or explicitly a view of " design-and-society " relations ( for example the view that sees design as merely the activity of commodity shaping , or the view that sees design as the activity which alone allows us to organise consciously the meeting of material human needs — which " involve things or usable products " — in forms consonant with and conducive to particular kinds of social relations or ways of life … ) contain also , naturally , a view of what design is . |
| 16 | ‘ He told us to throw away the air strut front suspension — coil springs , telescopic dampers and a lowered roll centre were what we needed . |
| 17 | It seduces me to kiss away the harsh words from your lips , to feel your mouth soften and tremble beneath mine . ’ |
| 18 | Now , to make life easier Tesco has produced a Microwave Power Test Kit ( £3.99 ) to help you to check both the new heating category and the power rating . |
| 19 | At the same time the fleet 's normal exit from Portsmouth harbour would have been blocked , forcing it to use instead the more dangerous , shoal-encumbered , Needles passage : |
| 20 | Similarly , it is power and politics rather than science which leads us to change even the most minor system when that system ceases to serve its purpose . |
| 21 | Ryan tried to push her down , and get her to fall downstairs the other day . |
| 22 | Yet the world champion is so unpredictably gifted that one on-song display could easily enable her to sweep aside the opposition . |
| 23 | Observers suggested that election of a Gorbachev ally would enable him to surrender completely the day-to-day running of the party in order to concentrate on the presidency . |
| 24 | While the Baby Bells try to sell corporate customers advanced services using their own networks , AT&T offers the same lot of customers PABXs which allow them to do exactly the same things . |
| 25 | For people with trouble controlling their hand movements , special key guards allow them to press only the key they want . |
| 26 | These innovative window decorations allow you to recreate authentically the beauty of stained glass in your home , at a fraction of the cost of the real thing . |
| 27 | Now he says he wrote to S & N chairman , Alec Rankin , asking him to explain fully the reasons for switching away from diesel . |
| 28 | I then took Maxine 's mind off what had happened by asking her to describe again the scenery in the area of the canal and the painted barges and sturdy horses which had so fascinated the young boy . |
| 29 | Allow it to wash away the last traces of your old payoff or negative belief . |
| 30 | Unfortunately space does not permit us to show here the terms , conditions and exclusions of the insurance but a cover note setting these out in full will be sent to you with your booking confirmation . |