Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ribeira Brava used to be like a Wild West or oasis town where buses and cars stopped for the occupants to take advantage of coffee , drinks and food and to fill their vehicle with petrol before venturing into the ‘ Beyond ’ or the ‘ Outback ’ . |
| 2 | Her general condition was so weak that he had arranged for the doctors to take special care of her , financially assisted as usual by Theo . |
| 3 | At the start of their third year , the technical training department arranged for the youngsters to work alongside Shell trainees at the Altens training centre . |
| 4 | It might have ordered the Serbs to remove their heavy artillery , by threatening to use counter-force ; it might have arranged for the Muslims to move to a safe haven elsewhere in the country . |
| 5 | On parents ' evening/parents ' consultation sessions it 's a good idea to invite neighbouring schools serving other phases to send displays of photographs , children 's work , brochures , prospectuses etc to be arranged for the parents to view as they pass through the school during the evening . |
| 6 | The local authority has arranged for the twins to attend some kind of daycare centre . |
| 7 | When a signal was given for the ladies to retire , leaving the men to their port and cigars , Sarah hurried to the kitchen , scurrying like a rabbit for shelter . |
| 8 | Opportunity will be given for the pupils to experience the invitation of Jesus personally in the classroom through moments of prayer and reflection and appropriate liturgical experience . |
| 9 | It was the belief of many of its members that if explanations and theories were to be given for the facts collected in their natural histories , they were to be given in mechanical terms , specifically in terms of the corpuscular theory . |
| 10 | The Young Conservatives had turned their backs on the enemy , broken through the police cordon and forced their way into the hotel . |
| 11 | Bull , developing parallel Unix boxes with IBM , says it may license technology it developed for the EDS project to big blue . |
| 12 | The guideline of whether a dispute has been formulated between the parties has recently been restated in Ipswich Borough Council v Fisons plc [ 1990 ] 1 WLR 108 . |
| 13 | The possibility raised there is intended for the Cartesians to deal with . |
| 14 | The quality of care given during the visits matters more than the actual time spent with them . |
| 15 | who agreed that the appeal should be dismissed for the reasons given by Fox L.J. , Lloyd L.J . |
| 16 | I agree that these appeals should be dismissed for the reasons given by Dillon L.J . |
| 17 | I agree that this appeal should be dismissed for the reasons given by Scott and Steyn L.JJ . |
| 18 | If revaluation of his security is necessary , resulting in a greater shortfall , he is to be treated as the creditors referred to in the previous paragraph . |
| 19 | There is no record of where the papingo was placed for the contests held during the first century of the Kilwinning Society of Archers . |
| 20 | These are designed for the students to practise language items which they are likely to need in a number of common situations . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , by not extending the underskull over the chin , and by covering the lower part of the mask fabric in hair , enough jaw movement was permitted for the actors to convey speech with some realism . |
| 22 | The timing of these changes and the details of the structures adopted varied between the countries comprising the United Kingdom , but ‘ as a service provider , local government in Scotland developed at broadly the same pace as local government in England and Wales ’ ( Page 1983:43 ; cf. foster et al. |
| 23 | The lines on his face and the slope of his eyes varied as the pictures changed . |
| 24 | She had forgotten about the payments made into the Swiss bank account and the Kensington flat . |
| 25 | The Court had come to the conclusion , making allowance for the fact that both men had had to face the prospect of punishment twice , that sentences of three years should be substituted for the sentences imposed . |
| 26 | The word allow may often be substituted for the words think of — try both and note the different effects on the body . |
| 27 | In summer an artificial grass rug comes out of the garden shed for the children to roll about on and a wooden sandpit , brought in Germany , keeps them happy for hours . |
| 28 | As they fled , two men were wounded as the attackers fired at bystanders . |
| 29 | It is true that these original objectives and policies of particular types of union concerning the labour and product markets of the relevant occupation and industry have subsequently been modified as the unions amalgamated or became more diversified in terms of their recruitment . |
| 30 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |