Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might rarely want to roll the treble off the neck pickup , but you can take treble off the bridge pickup , if it 's a little hairy for you , and still be sure of a full-treble sound on the neck pickup when you hit the switch hard left . |
| 2 | They 'd badly want to find the car to forestall any possible inquiries about an abandoned vehicle , and to remove all evidence of my presence . |
| 3 | However , it may form the basis of a new approach to problems in which lawyers and advisers will not seek to establish the legal nature of the problem and then find the relevant law , but will rather seek to establish the nature of the problem and then contemplate whether any part of the law might be relevant . |
| 4 | I do rather enjoy having the flat to myself , despite a constant battle with my clutter ! |
| 5 | I 'm a car owner who 's actually thinking of selling my car because I do n't use it much in Glasgow I do n't need to , I can actually walk to work and to come to somewhere like Edinburgh tonight I would much prefer to use the train , but I think we could have much more adequal plans to do with pedestrianizing city centres so that cars were banned from them altogether , they could bring back trams which are much less in terms of pollution , they might not make us big profits for the company 's but they are a very good way , we , a lot of European cities still use trams . |
| 6 | Thus " information handling " does not merely cover using the microcomputer to find references to aspects of pollution such as ACID RAIN but to the whole process of learning done in the classroom and the school library . |
| 7 | You 'd better prepare to abandon the platform . |
| 8 | Clubs or individuals would only need to pay the cost of travel to the USSR . |
| 9 | Thus all banks which find themselves illiquid will naturally seek to relieve the shortage by offering to sell securities to the discount houses . |
| 10 | You need enough soil to fill the frame . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd very much like to know the extent of your experience . |
| 12 | If you are able to help , I would very much like to launch the document next month when it will have maximum influence . |
| 13 | The only good news I can tell you is that I would very much like to have the opportunity . |
| 14 | Well I supposed we 'd all like to know the answer to that . |
| 15 | If we consider for a moment the extent to which the hero-kings of early agricultural societies did indeed come to play a maternal , provident role with regard to those dependent on them we can perhaps begin to see the truth of the claim that they became the heirs of the matriarchs . |
| 16 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 17 | ‘ We have to remark that there is no doubt that our present Medical Officer , whose experience is greater in the treatment of patients in modern hospitals than in union workhouses , would naturally like to have the sick treated in the same way as in a large hospital , but taking into consideration cases under treatment , which are mostly chronic , as well as the means at the disposal of the Guardians , we can not recommend any sweeping alterations . |
| 18 | He can only work to prepare the ground and let the change happen of itself or not at all . |
| 19 | You may find that you need to apply the solution several times and should obviously avoid doing the gob just before a rain storm is forecast . |
| 20 | If you had kept your mouth shut , Friar , we might perhaps have gained the truth . |
| 21 | As the car 's lights disappeared round the corner , it occurred to Charles that he should perhaps have asked the man to wait . |
| 22 | She peered out of the window again , hoping that she might perhaps have imagined the scene below , but Miss Hardbroom had not moved and was now almost hidden from view by the smoke . |
| 23 | We never tried to see one another 's faces : that would perhaps have spoiled the purity of the experience . |
| 24 | It was a great nature , checked by some hunger of the soul , which ( this is the source of all beautiful desire ) would perhaps have destroyed the soul , had it been satisfied . |
| 25 | Johnson , never under an obligation to generate social ease , dismissed that by saying ‘ The intimacy is such as one of the professors here may have with one of the carpenters who is repairing the college , ’ Johnson 's point being that the printer , having printed some of Warburton 's works , might perhaps have bought the copyright in one or two of them . |
| 26 | The editor might also have noted the colloquial sense of roaming around which the verb shatatsya carries , for this may perhaps have encouraged the switch from Shaposhnikov to Shatov as the novel began to define itself . |
| 27 | More than three years had already passed , and further delays could only risk exposing the government to exactly the charges now being levelled against it . |
| 28 | The ceremonies and festivities attending the coronation of French kings at Reims did much to enhance the popularity and reputation of the wines of Champagne — though they can not entirely have pleased the populace of Reims , who had to meet the expense of such occasions . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , Richard Baxter had to move away from Acton , otherwise his persecutors would merely have to correct the warrant and re-arrest him . |
| 30 | Policy must of course be converted into practice ; in both these schools overall spending policy and staffing priorities were significant expressions of commitment by the heads , and this can only have strengthened the resolve of those members of staff who served on the library committees and immersed themselves in the day-to-day business of winning a place in the project . |