Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the versions we have will run under System V/2 , and we would therefore have to arrange for Waterloo to port the code to run under your operating system . |
| 2 | The policeman kicked it away and gestured for Whitlock to approach the police car . |
| 3 | Melrose sneaked ahead through a Chalmers drop goal in the 65th minute only for McKechnie to nullify the effort in similar style barely a minute later . |
| 4 | In May 1529 , Henry decided to wait no longer and arranged for Wolsey to hear the case under his own legatine authority at a court at Blackfriars in London . |
| 5 | Graham Chapman gave Wingate the lead only for David Appleby to equalise for Cleadon to take the tie into extra time and a replay . |
| 6 | A gold medal for Burnell to emulate the achievements of his father and father-in-law . |
| 7 | I dumped my duffel bag by the wall and he called for Maria to bring the tea . |
| 8 | In order for Swindon to make the playoffs they must beat Derby . |
| 9 | Now that he was down at ground level it was not so easy for Patrick to locate the dell where he had seen the immaculate golfer . |
| 10 | It was probably difficult for Sheila to take the step of coming into the CAB with the very sensitive subject of homosexuality that for all she knows may be taboo at the bureaux . |
| 11 | A few , those who had been last in the line , turned their horses in time and rode for Ruthyn to carry the news , and were not hindered in their going . |
| 12 | The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on . |
| 13 | A cacophony of staccato bleeps and irritating electronic tunes , endlessly repeated , made it difficult for Marie to catch the sense of what he was saying . |
| 14 | It was a sweet way for Crosby to celebrate the end of his first year in the Sunderland hot seat . |
| 15 | Following the signing of a bilateral economic co-operation accord with Angola in September , an agreement was signed for Angola to supply the bulk of Namibia 's fuel needs , reducing dependence on South Africa . |
| 16 | The ideas and concepts of the prison structure in Scotland — outlined in a speech at the conference by Alan Walker , the deputy chief executive of the SPS — so impressed a Latvian delegation that they wrote to Scotland 's Minister of State , Lord Fraser of Carmyllie , asking his permission for Walker to visit the country . |
| 17 | Yet , Empirical Socialism did not have to wait for Keynes to propound the idea of demand-led growth as the solution to the recurrent crises in Capitalism . |
| 18 | It teetered on one edge of its base , and toppled on to the platform with surprisingly little noise but with enough force for Bernice to feel the floor move beneath her feet and a blast of displaced air brush against her face . |
| 19 | The agreement calls for BPX to operate and maintain facilities to process production from the well and for BPX to operate the well via hydraulic controls which run from the platform to the subsea well . |
| 20 | It needed considerable force of character , whatever the merits of the issue , for the Thomson family to shut down The Times and The Sunday Times for a year and for Murdoch to move the papers to ‘ fortress Wapping ’ later , in his struggles with the unions . |
| 21 | In preparing for war in 1337 it was essential for Edward to gain the support both of the nobility and of the wider political community . |
| 22 | Up to the previous evening there had been questions bandied back and forth between Aggie and Ben as to whether , after all , it would be necessary for Millie to take the post she had been offered . |
| 23 | Writing to the bus company and ask that the buses if the bus service can be diverted from going down Station Lane at Edingley to coming up Edingley Hill and through Halam to improve the service through the village . |
| 24 | He 'd arrived just after Vespers to collect the message he had been told would be waiting for him . |
| 25 | ‘ The current studies are sufficiently convincing for Eurotunnel to continue the development of its transport system on the principle of non-segregation of passengers for diesel and petrol cars and coaches , ’ the authority said . |
| 26 | That is why we think this is hardly the most opportune moment for IBM to wield the weapon of ad hoc pricing . |
| 27 | And there was no chance for Ruth to give the conversation more thought as Steve emerged from his bedroom , tousled and bleary-eyed from too much champagne . |
| 28 | For Nannie to use the word " stomach " instead of " little inside " was an infringement of the rules for polite talk . |
| 29 | It was impossible for Theodore to maintain the integrity of Wilfrid 's position while at the same time attempting to conserve the tradition which Eata , Eadhaed and Bosa represented , and in the years which followed it was the latter which was consolidated . |
| 30 | All the factions comprising the Front for the Liberation of the Cabinda Enclave ( FLEC ) agreed during July to boycott the elections . |