Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 2 | If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time . |
| 3 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 4 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 5 | He is n't allowed to play football and has to go back to the hospital for treatment . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 7 | The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth . |
| 8 | For comparison , one really has to go back to the Renaissance , to someone like Giovanni Bellini , who travelled an enormous territory ; even to Giotto , the artist who Matisse said was the peak of his aspiration . |
| 9 | the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to . |
| 10 | In the meantime he has to go back to the town on further business , but first his horse needs shoeing , his cart needs repairing and he needs food and shelter . |
| 11 | He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice . |
| 12 | Both were successful in their task , Phyllisia no longer has to go back to the West Indies and Celie was reunited with all her family . |
| 13 | Danny has to go down on the floor , put his hands on hips and go , evening all ! |
| 14 | One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise . |
| 15 | I do n't think it needs to go down under the barrier act . |
| 16 | Electricity privatisation needs to go back to the drawing board . |
| 17 | This determines the level of the water in the cistern so it needs to go back to the same notch |
| 18 | Like a car needs to go in for the M O T , you 've got ta |
| 19 | He loves to go down to the factory floor and see the products being made . |
| 20 | As Britain 's largest electricity maker , NatPower has to shop around for the cheapest fuel available . |
| 21 | As er as you can imagine , it 's a very difficult task , nobody wants to go up in the region , it has malaria , it 's dangerous , it 's it Transportation is difficult . |
| 22 | When we finally spill outside , Rachel says she wants to go down to the beach again . |
| 23 | In his home town , Mr Edwards is a noted singer and says that he wants to go down in the programme as performing a selection of songs from Carousel and also Holy City . |
| 24 | He wants to go back to the base camp before we push on towards Finland . |
| 25 | But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’ |
| 26 | Now she 's selling , but nobody wants to carry on with the music.Debbie Kelly reports . |
| 27 | If the patient can not use the lexical procedure to read , say , pint , and so has to fall back upon the non-lexical procedure , a reading error will result : pint will be read with a short i ( as in mint ) . |
| 28 | After about nine months , the baby starts to clamber out of the pouch and hop about at its mother 's side , though still returning when danger threatens or when it wants a drink of milk . |
| 29 | Headward erosion is rapid at this point and regrading of the river starts to work back from the mouth . |
| 30 | Landforms developed in relation to the earlier and higher base level are abandoned as erosion starts to work down to the new base level . |