Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond the door , Mother Bombie 's feet in soft felt slippers could be heard slapping angrily down the stairs . |
| 2 | Autumn had given the trees that extra golden lustre and the leaves that had already fallen lay round about the mourners , feet like a russet carpet . |
| 3 | for me , so , I 've arranged to go back to the dentist then . |
| 4 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 5 | We 'd carefully worked out the tides and as arranged waded back to the shore at 8 o'clock . |
| 6 | The example below is an error handling routine designed to cope only with the |
| 7 | Lahaina 's sponges can be folded or rolled to go anywhere in the filter . |
| 8 | Surely Baldwin , whatever his desire earlier in the imbroglio , can not at this stage have wished to go back to the Cabinet on the following morning and announce that a wayward King , who had already compromised his position with most opinion both at home and in the Dominions , had suddenly changed his mind , at least temporarily , and , having attracted the maximum publicity to his preference for Mrs Simpson over the Throne , was now prepared to ditch her and try to pick up again the pieces of kingship . |
| 9 | WABI is now also expected to go forward into the COSE initiative . |
| 10 | WABI is now also expected to go forward into the Common Open Software Environment initiative . |
| 11 | The USA had previously been opposed to such involuntary repatriation , as had the Vietnamese government , but the latter was expected to go along with the initiative , given its current desire to restore diplomatic relations with the USA . |
| 12 | The Blackpool cars were the largest , seating 84 , and two conductors were carried to cope respectively with the upper deck and the large platform doors . |
| 13 | In many regions , industry is permitted to connect up to the domestic sewage system to discharge its toxic waste . |
| 14 | An actress who found fame in a commercial for Volkswagen cars has been banned from driving after being caught speeding twice in the space of thirteen minutes . |
| 15 | They are expected to report back to the software house and tell the programming team about any bugs they find , any inconsistencies , and so forth . |
| 16 | Under George Bush , NASA was committed to go back to the moon and on to Mars , and the space station was arguably a step on that road . |
| 17 | With an eye to the latest unemployment figures , due today , when the seasonally adjusted total is expected to remain just under the three million barrier , the Chancellor added : ‘ Obviously in the months ahead we are going to have good news and bad news . |
| 18 | BNFL will seek to identify new projects for the site but the numbers of BNFL employees at Capenhurst are expected to fall significantly by the mid to late 1990s . |
| 19 | M F I traditionally has a stronger second half cash flow and net borrowings are expected to fall further in the second half of the year . |
| 20 | This would lead us to look not just at the ‘ outputs ’ from institutions , but at the ‘ inputs ’ , and at the achievements of students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving success , as well as those who could be expected to perform well on the basis of their previous academic achievements . |
| 21 | The teaching approach in these subject areas is designed to go far beyond the basic development of psycho-motor skills . |
| 22 | In the case of real assets , the expected return may be less certain ( i.e. riskier ) but potentially greater as , for example , if property values are expected to soar ahead of the rate of inflation . |
| 23 | When the Gruagach had come storming down from the Northern Wastes and attacked Tara and stolen away the Wolfking 's son , Tara 's heir , the people of the half-world of the forest had vanished , afraid and timid . |
| 24 | Consumers in Scotland , where the heating season is the longest in the UK , are expected to suffer most from the change . |
| 25 | Priority was in this way accorded to the least prosperous regions and countries of the Community , partly arising from an expectation that these areas might otherwise be expected to benefit least from the SEM . |
| 26 | There was no clue to contemporary thinking at the DTp throughout the 1970's : indeed , it was not until 1987 that a new standard reference work was published which could reasonably be expected to provide up to the minute advice on traffic planning in existing urban areas . |
| 27 | Secondly , there is the regional flood defence committee , whose members will be expected to come up with the lion 's share of the cash . |
| 28 | The new machines are expected to come in above the ES/9000s and to dispense with water cooling , while being configurable with up to 100 processors working in parallel . |
| 29 | IBM Corp is still not ready with a full scale disk array for its mainframes , but next week , the company is expected to come out with the new 3390-9 disk drives , offering three times the capacity of the 3390-3 — could be as much as 60Gb on the As , 100Gb on the Bs ( CI No 2,046 ) — but they will be somewhat slower than the existing ones : a new 3990 controller that will be able to talk to disks that do not exist yet is expected to follow later , probably in the autumn . |
| 30 | For all the enigmas in his career , Wojciech Jaruzelski seems himself to be the prototype of what the USSR has come to trust most in the Polish military outlook . |