Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Area Director also has power to discharge or revoke it upon the happening of specified events including a request from the applicant so to do , or where the aid has been abused , or where the applicant is in arrears with contributions , or where the applicant 's financial position improves so that he or she is able to afford to fund legal action . |
| 2 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 3 | What the charity groups think of him is hardly going to make or break him in the operatic world . ’ |
| 4 | If I ca n't read or understand something in the paper he discusses it with me — about what is happening in the country or the community or about what politics can mean . |
| 5 | He had inched his way to the dark bathroom , and stood slumped over the sink , feeling lost , depersonalized , and trying to soothe or tether himself with the running water . |
| 6 | For large tensile specimens most test machines use swivelling or gimbal grip mountings to avoid such effects of non-axiality , but when small specimens are used , of a few millimetres in cross-section as is common with polymer tests , axiality may become more difficult to achieve because the mass of the swivelling grip requires considerable stress to rotate or move it into the axial position . |
| 7 | The general law of confidential information would impose a duty to the donors of information not to use or disclose it beyond the purposes for which it is given without consent of the donors . |
| 8 | Community Care Grants are to enable people to establish or maintain themselves in the community rather than having to be in hospitals , nursing homes and residential care homes etc . |
| 9 | The blastocyst will now implant or embed itself in the endometrium , losing its membrane . |
| 10 | The makeshift bomb lobbed into an upstairs bedroom was packed with nuts , bolts and glass in an attempt to kill or maim anyone in the room . |
| 11 | Rain had to choose whether to let him pass or lead him into the house and try to steer him away from the kitchen . |
| 12 | Music had been important to her and the shelves held a catholic collection of records with which he could refresh or console himself during the two weeks ' holiday . |
| 13 | Those of us who live in south-east London not three miles from King 's Cross know that if we were taking our children to meet a continental train , or if we were taking elderly parents or grandparents to meet the train , we would not take them to King 's Cross , because we could not park there or get them near the platforms . |
| 14 | There are all kinds and levels of faith but only one God who will accept or reject us for the lives we live today . |
| 15 | Newspapers , therefore , are the media through which political parties can establish and/or sustain themselves in the minds of the public . |
| 16 | He had practiced putting on his kitchen floor at home during the winter to try and prepare himself for the greens . |
| 17 | For now , the Strongs wil just have to wait and prepare themselves for the next weekend that Purcell comes home . |
| 18 | The change-over day from one occupancy to the next was on a Saturday , when our admirable Jane Jones arrived to clean and prepare it for the next lot . |
| 19 | Had Furlanetto done his homework on the great singers of the past , simply in order to try and absorb something of the tradition in double-quick time ? |
| 20 | I just do n't see how you can kiss and cuddle me in the department when nothing at all is going on between us , and then just as soon as there is , you switch it all off like a blasted tap ! ’ |
| 21 | The effects of the Great Depression and a renewed possibility of war in Europe in the 1930s made most Americans all the more determined to isolate and insulate themselves from the quarrels and atavism of the nations of Europe . |
| 22 | We 'll try and make it in the morning . |
| 23 | Right , I got a cheque in my pocket made out to pay cash so she said you can go in and cash it on the counter . |
| 24 | Another good way of practising the start without having to go through the exhausting rig recovery is to sail along and lower yourself into the water . |
| 25 | Finally I decided to decline politely and throw myself on the mercy of an acquaintance instead . ’ |
| 26 | For a craven moment she was tempted to go back and throw herself on the mercy of the landlady . |
| 27 | He gambles that I will not leap down and pursue him along the pavement . |
| 28 | I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . |
| 29 | She recalled his saying , ‘ I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . ’ |
| 30 | But they were quite happy to come along and discuss it with the parish council erm and . |