Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you 're also summoned that on that same occasion you not having given your name and address to any person requiring it at the time , you failed to report the accident at a police station , or to a constable as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case within twenty four hours of it happening again , that 's an offence under section twenty five of the road traffic act to that effect do you plead guilty or not guilty ? |
| 2 | THE FERGIE expected to swell the gate at Old Trafford tonight is not Manchester United 's wallet waver , nor even the creator of Budgie the Helicopter . |
| 3 | ‘ But you were already with Zacco when they tried to kill the demoiselle at Kalopetra , ’ the youth said . |
| 4 | Nick Hartwell , 23 , of Llanfair Clydogau , Dyfed , died as he tried to cross the track at the station in Marseilles , France . |
| 5 | For these and other reasons the US State Department and the armed forces tried to seize the initiative at home with their notable inter-departmental report ( NSC 68 ) of April 1950 . |
| 6 | He tried to keep the anger at its peak ; he cursed his father , and slammed his fist on the chest by the window so that the photograph of his mother overbalanced and fell on its face . |
| 7 | The pilot wrestled with the highjackers as he desperately tried to land the plane at Canton airport , it then slammed into two other passenger jets . |
| 8 | Wah , urgh , I tried to argue the point at appeal , erm , if you look up the listing for these properties , er , in the area which back onto the mill stream , it 's all the grounds are listed because it says quite clearly , that in the opinion of , they form a group , and it was one of the reasons which I 'm glad you , well as you can see , this piece of ground is part of a listing , and although this existing permission , we 're looking at it as a clean site , tonight , we 're not looking at what has been passed . |
| 9 | The LEA proposed to place the boy at a comprehensive school . |
| 10 | " I gave some of it to Eileen and tried to double the rest at roulette . |
| 11 | Moreover , succeeding governments tried to operate the economy at lower levels of demand and therefore at higher levels of unemployment in order to reduce inflationary pressures . |
| 12 | Her conversion helped to make the BDDA at long last take the plunge and appoint its first paid staff . |
| 13 | We opted to promote the band at a local level , and not nationally . |
| 14 | Councillors from the Forest of Dean came to visit the site at Tidenham Chase , before deciding whether or not to allow the travellers to stay there . |
| 15 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 16 | The industry used local resources ; charcoal and other articles were made from wood ; iron and silver ores were processed and fashioned ; and flax , hemp and wool were spun and woven into clothing , the Italian Chimney sweeps came to symbolize the migration at its most miserable , but other persons repaired watches or became itinerant vendors of fabric , haberdashery , and other items . |
| 17 | The special relationship Finniston forged between top management and the work-force at British Steel is epitomised by the fact that he was given farewell parties by each of the seven major steelworks when he came to leave the corporation at the end of ten years . |
| 18 | Travis seemed to appreciate the attempt at humour . |
| 19 | What we 're go interested in is can you tell us anything about how , how you came to get the job at first . |
| 20 | Whenever Stephen asked him a question , he seemed to have the answer at his fingertips . |
| 21 | Tall and slim , without the usual broad shoulders of the pace man , he had excelled at athletics as a youngster , with the result that he was a fast bowler like virtually no other ; his approach to the wicket was so soft and silky that he hardly seemed to touch the ground at all , and several umpires said that they were not able to hear him running in . |
| 22 | This involved a long hike over Esk Hause to Gable , and to avoid the intense mid-day heat we agreed to leave the valley at dawn . |
| 23 | They began to untie the canvas at the rear of the lorry . |
| 24 | In the late 1970s older workers , men especially , began to leave the workforce at increasingly early ages . |
| 25 | FOLLOWING a number of organisational changes within , , UK sales director , decided to leave the company at the end of February . |
| 26 | After gathering again in Milton Keynes in the early hours of this morning they all decided to leave the field at the same time , but there were only two exits . |
| 27 | After much speculation we all started to point the finger at Dawn . |
| 28 | clearly knew what they were doing when they decided to build the plant at Wallingford and it 's no secret that when bought from , Wallingford was seen to fill a gap in distribution of locations . |
| 29 | Doug Laughton , with injuries to Emosi Koloto and Mike O'Neill , toyed with the idea of moving Tony Myler into the pack and playing Davies at stand-off , but decided to keep the Welshman at centre , where he will come into direct confrontation with Meninga . |
| 30 | IT TOOK three head-on rail collisions before safety specialists started to analyse the risk at controversial junctions , a fatal accident inquiry heard yesterday . |