Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all duly sentenced , those villagers of Snodland , were to walk bare foot after the procession on the following Sunday , each charged to carry a taper worth a halfpenny which they should offer up to the Holy Cross . |
| 2 | Apart from straightforward fountains , ornaments depicting cherubs , mermaids and similar characters can be purchased , each designed to take a pump outlet so that water can spout from its mouth ( Fig. 6 ) , or a shell , or any similar object that they might be holding . |
| 3 | This goes to demonstrate a point that I have long argued businesses should not be hit in the pocket when a dispute arises through no fault of their own . |
| 4 | This goes to demonstrate a point that I have long argued businesses should not be hit in the pocket when a dispute arises through no fault of their own . |
| 5 | When this failed to elicit a response he turned directly to the larger . |
| 6 | Many professionals said this failed to plug a gap in the Children Act . |
| 7 | This sought to demonstrate a concept of surplus which , taking besides labour other inputs — land , skill and ability , capital — into account , did not rely upon Ricardo 's labour theory of value ; but went on to conclude that , under Capitalism , the inputs are not rewarded by reference to the parts they play in the creation of wealth and that labour in particular did not get its fair share . |
| 8 | This helped to prevent a price slump but it also led to ‘ butter mountains ’ and ‘ wine lakes ’ which were expensive to store . |
| 9 | This helped to avoid a recession and the ‘ real ’ economy continued to grow strongly . |
| 10 | This seemed to give a sense of his priorities . |
| 11 | This came to create a rift between insiders and outsiders . |
| 12 | The ½in dowels are inserted into this framing to create a grill to keep the mice out of what makes an inviting nesting box . |
| 13 | Lisa peered past the window display , as if half expecting to see a crocodile of new customers filing towards the door . |
| 14 | Sometimes , waking very early , she would tiptoe to the narrow window and look out across the harbour , half expecting to see a ship at anchor there , newly arrived from Portugal . |
| 15 | Some like to throw a snowball |
| 16 | And some like to keep a check on fat or other nutrients . |
| 17 | There is some evidence that relationships between local government and business interests have become closer and more institutionalized , and this seems to support an interpretation which identifies a significant shift ( or structural change ) between the late 1960s and the late 1980s . |
| 18 | This seems to suggest an assailant unknown to him coming up behind him with a weapon in the right hand , holding him round the neck with the left arm ( fabric traces in the teeth ) to prevent him shouting . |
| 19 | Often this seems to involve a contradiction of an accepted meaning ( the striptease as non-erotic , the jet-man as having gone beyond speed , wrestling as more to do with Commedia dell'Arte than sport , etc . ) . |
| 20 | And as the Men broke through into his cage and reached up to grab him , and as another started to throw a net over the hole in the cage above , so Creggan flexed his wings , thrust forward and up and surged out above his friends and the Cages into the wild forbidding sky , and freedom . |
| 21 | This appears to create a precedent of joint museum ownership for drawings , which the galleries are solving by means of shared responsibility for conservation and lending policy . |
| 22 | This appears to offer a contrast with the 200 native languages ( in fifty-seven families ) in present-day North America , of which about sixty-eight occur north of the 45th parallel ( the zone comparable with Siberia ) . |
| 23 | This appears to involve a form of transcendental standpoint . |
| 24 | The clothes , the buildings , the pitch and intonation of voices speaking Amharic ; the smell of rancid butter , of red peppers and burning cow dung that permeated the town ; the packs of savage dogs that roamed the streets and whose howling rose and fell through the night ; an occasional corpse hanging on the gallows-tree ; beggars who had lost a hand or foot for theft ; debtors and creditors wandering round chained together ; strings of donkeys bringing in firewood ; caravans of mules ; the crowded market where men and women squatted on the ground , selling earthen pots , lengths of cloths , skins , cartridges , bars of salt , silver ornaments , heaps of grain , vegetables , beer — all this combined to create a scene and an atmosphere unlike any other in the world . |
| 25 | This appeared to represent a backlash against its recent campaign of nationalist protests , which had included a rowdy pro-independence demonstration disrupting celebrations in Bratislava ( Slovakia 's capital ) of the Nov. 17 anniversary of the start of the 1989 revolution . |
| 26 | This appeared to contradict a statement issued by the ANC 's Johannesburg headquarters on Feb. 5 . |
| 27 | This appeared to resolve a controversy in which the USA had expressed misgivings about the effect of the new corps on NATO . |
| 28 | In practice this appeared to mean a break with the French and , like many Americans engaged in day-to-day dealings in Vietnam , Blum 's frustration had reached the point where he would recommend withdrawing US assistance altogether rather than endlessly humouring the French . |
| 29 | That seemed to defuse a lot of tension , ’ said Roy Beavis . |
| 30 | I think one is largely on judging people in the hands of the media , looking at it from an ordinary party member I think it 's the air he gives , whether it 's an air of confidence competence and perhaps and air of confidence , the way he handles himself in the House of Commons , the things that he actually says , because within that time you 're not able , in fact , to have achieved much erm parliamentary wise , one very much has to judge a person by what he has . |