Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | for me , so , I 've arranged to go back to the dentist then . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In many regions , industry is permitted to connect up to the domestic sewage system to discharge its toxic waste . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Secondly , there is the regional flood defence committee , whose members will be expected to come up with the lion 's share of the cash . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He might be banished during cleaning , but he was still permitted to jump on to the bed . |
| 13 | Penguin has a brand new series of ready Readers , a mixture of classic and modern stories at three levels and designed to lead in to the same publisher 's Simply Stories series . |
| 14 | The detailed character of financial , administrative and legal restraints imposed by Whitehall may change but the general effect remains the same — local councillors are expected to fit in with the political priorities of the government of the day . |
| 15 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 16 | Many of East Germany 's energy-efficient industries are expected to shut down in the aftermath of the country 's reunification . |
| 17 | A second raffle is expected to notch up about the same total . |
| 18 | Sun was expected to line up alongside the rest of the takers , but did n't complete negotiations in time . |
| 19 | They will play half a game each with new signing Eric Cantona , and one of them will be picked to line up alongside the Frenchman in the Manchester derby tomorrow week — the other will have to kick his heels . |
| 20 | I am shortly to find out , for I am booked to fly out to the Falkland Islands in a few days ! |
| 21 | They were now expected to settle down with the very people with whom they had been fighting and who had been responsible for killing some of their comrades-in-arms . |
| 22 | Conditions are expected to settle down by the middle of next week . |
| 23 | Among a series of films designed to cash in on the success of Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) , for example , was Seth Holt 's The Nanny ( 1965 ) , made with the visual flair of his earlier Hammer picture , Taste of Fear ( 1961 ) , and telling the powerful tale of two sisters , both dependent in their own way on the woman who brought them up , who pay no attention to the declarations of their son and nephew that it was nanny who killed his sister and now wants to kill him . |
| 24 | In theatres all over the world performers are expected to turn up at the ‘ half ’ to start making up . |
| 25 | Although their dress was not equipped to deal with soaking weather and although they may have been expected to turn back at the sight of such greyness , they continued and even displayed some sense of enjoyment at the discomfort each was experiencing . |
| 26 | Then they will be expected to turn out in the afternoon heat to suit the peak viewing times of European television viewers . |
| 27 | She could n't be expected to hang around with the press and everyone else knowing that she was responsible for last night 's false alarm . |
| 28 | The £300,000 bridge has been designed to tone in with the area 's historic buildings . |
| 29 | You may have then had a verbal exchange with your next in line , but bar that you were expected to get on with the work . |
| 30 | Although it 's not yet certain exactly where the British armoured forces will be deployed , the four landing ships are expected to join up with the twelve-strong Royal Navy patrol in the Gulf of Amman . |