Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flower vans should be mobilised countrywide and staff given the bouquets just when the queues are at their thickest . |
| 2 | Some of the early prisoners had regarded the Germans much as , afterwards in the pavilion , one might regard the football team to whom one had lost the match . |
| 3 | This sense of a loss of control has demoralised the markets more than any other factor . |
| 4 | In this case , he plays down Judas and his followers as " a little help " , and even suggests that some of these followers had joined the ranks not because they believed in their cause , but under false pretences . |
| 5 | This question has occupied the courts more than any other raised by the whole subject of expert determination . |
| 6 | We would not have considered the orders today if the Opposition had not prayed against them and agreed that they should be debated with the main affirmative orders . |
| 7 | He denied that his force could have turned the hippies away before they got onto the common . |
| 8 | The plaintiff would have suffered the injuries even if he had been wearing a belt . |
| 9 | She realized she had never seen the servants before except as part of the backdrop of Summer Lodge , now she saw that they were part of her life , real people with loves and loyalties especially to her and it made her feel suddenly humble . |
| 10 | I do n't believe that would be the practice , and therefore I believe the executive committee as the trustees and custodians on our behalf , in this matter , should take the responsibility , and I would have preferred the trustees rather than the Council to have been stated at that point . |
| 11 | Dunwoody 's day started badly with a fall on Gambling Royal and , setting out on Remittance Man for the Mumm Melling Chase , he must have had the fences more than usually in mind . |
| 12 | It was crude , a trifle unfinished and unformed — in any other Dream , she would have researched the externals rather than built on a whim — but it was what she wanted . |
| 13 | ‘ Impossible — Wings Balsdon 's got the goons just where he wants them ’ |
| 14 | you would n't allow somebody else who 'd got the sulks on because they were n't interviewed |
| 15 | 5.5 Decoration [ As often as may in the [ reasonable ] opinion of the Surveyor be necessary in order to maintain a high standard of decorative finish and attractiveness and to preserve the Premises or In each of the Decorating Years ] and in the last year of the Term to redecorate the Premises in a good and workmanlike manner and with appropriate materials of good quality [ to the [ reasonable ] satisfaction of the Surveyor ] the tints and colours and patterns of such decoration to be approved by the Landlord [ provided that the covenants relating to the last year of the Term shall not apply where the Tenant shall have redecorated the Premises less than [ 18 ] months prior to the expiry of the Term ] Most tenants would not wish to be under an obligation to redecorate the interior or exterior of the premises more frequently than every five years , although this is a matter for negotiation . |
| 16 | I daresay he 's used the Guardians more than once , ’ he added , eating cheese with composure . |
| 17 | It had reached the lights just as the amber changed to red and turned down the Sandwich road . |
| 18 | Superpower involvement has raised the stakes rather than lowered them . |
| 19 | Whites had contacted the police more than Blacks , and Asians less than both , Whites tending to be more satisfied with the result . |
| 20 | He has damaged the royals more than anyone |
| 21 | She was n't even aware of having spoken the words aloud until she saw his face tauten with some undefinable emotion as he held her from him . |
| 22 | You 'll arrive to find they 've stuck the mikes just where you do n't want them . |
| 23 | She sat down at the table for two Roman had selected , and tossed her hair back from her face ; Roman had pulled the pins out as soon as they had left the hotel and placed them in his pocket . |
| 24 | He realised with a flash of almost ludicrous detachment that the hand that was trying to grasp him was now fully formed , and was the one that he had cut the fingers off when slamming the steel door . |
| 25 | You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated . |
| 26 | EPR had won the battle on their own terms but , like Bohr in his very different way , they had defined the rules so as to assure themselves of victory . |
| 27 | So far it has been an air war : some 15,000 sorties have cost the allies less than 25 aircraft — an astonishingly light price — though five of these were RAF Tornados , lost during very hazardous low-level night attacks on massively defended targets . |
| 28 | I could have put the headings on as you have |
| 29 | He did n't add that he had argued Frick 's case vigorously , had hammered the points home until they could do little but agree with him . |
| 30 | check that you have taken the details correctly before you hang up . |