Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their approach tribe pressed on tribe , nation upon nation , leaving an ever-widening swathe of destruction as each sought to escape from the terror behind ; one far-flung ripple had driven the Saxons across the North Sea into Britain . |
| 2 | Both self-employed , and having the required skills , the two set about raising the £150 they would each need to pay for the journey as well as the tools and materials they would need . |
| 3 | Some of that has to do with the guitar — we need material which is set up more for the guitar . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And I do n't see what that has to do with the problem in hand . ’ |
| 5 | And that has to come from the people involved in the game at the top , those who shape the future and direction of the sport . |
| 6 | There is in the feminine psyche a primitive , wild quality , that needs to draw from the power of nature , using the senses of night , when the clear thought and vision of day sleep . |
| 7 | What had all this got to do with the cruel terrors of Spiderglass that kept Mars-U as a garden of torture ( she could n't even think of the garden-master ; somehow he just kind of disappeared from her mind ) so it could pluck poor students into its web of inhumanity ? |
| 8 | ‘ So what 's all this got to do with the deaths of our agents ? ’ continued the DDA . |
| 9 | Opposition leaders made speeches during the gathering in the southern city of Kaohsiung , and some planned to walk along the route where the disturbances occurred . |
| 10 | Others had to put up with less ideal locations , and this led to demand for the feng shui practitioner , whose skill was in improving the landscape by correct siting , ensuring that nothing took place to disturb the flows of energy . |
| 11 | This has to last for the rest of our lives . " |
| 12 | This has to do with the way in which network membership involves possession of the social skills and reciprocal relationships which that membership entails . |
| 13 | Part of this has to do with the lack of systematic training to which we have already referred . |
| 14 | This has to do with the relational quality of deixis . |
| 15 | This has to happen in the face of a continuing decline of the fertilizer business in general . |
| 16 | Yes , well , it 's at at an odd angle , you noticed th that because we are in latitude fifty nine , so the centre of this has to look at the pole star . |
| 17 | Some want to invest in the island and get some kind of tourism going . ’ |
| 18 | This starts to run from the date of delivery of the relevant return of allotments to the Registrar , which must be within one month of each allotment . |
| 19 | In any case , all this helped to prepare for the militarist attitude that the party was to take when war came , when it could advocate conscription without any fear of the electoral consequences . |
| 20 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 21 | A leading scientific journal , Nature , did not publish the paper but none of this seemed to matter before the Utah steamroller . |
| 22 | Some stop to talk to the hunger strikers . |
| 23 | Some came to rest on the bamboo pigeon frames — horizontal slats of trellising raised on a pole — that several of the fliers had raised above their roofs . |
| 24 | This came to dominate in the last years of the century . |
| 25 | In England the king claimed that all his subjects owed fealty to him in some degree , and in due course this came to conflict with the possibility of any of his vassals owing liege homage to any but the king . |
| 26 | Mainly the sparks fly down off the wheel , but some seem to cling to the circumference all round then fly up into the operator 's face . |
| 27 | As can be imagined , this tends to lead to the blurring of stances on issues rather than their clarification . |
| 28 | This tends to focus on the physical symptoms of soil erosion and finds its expression in maps of soil loss or erosion hazard , but it also includes other spatial , tangible variables such as land use , stocking densities and the geographical expression of the flow of energy between people and the biosphere . |
| 29 | This happened to coincide with the moment Hugette Bouchardeau took over as France 's new , untried environment minister . |
| 30 | I was thinking , ‘ What has this got to do with the bank manager ? |