Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | After I introduced the hemp earlier the fish seemed to go off the feed so I only introduced it for four or five casts . |
2 | The heat was beginning to go off the streets and the shadows were creeping out from the walls . |
3 | Right , first of all I 'd like to apologize for the fact that Alan 's report and my report especially the first half , are very similar . |
4 | He delivered a strong attack on Paisley and sent his Minister for Home Affairs to the General Assembly to apologize for the demonstration and to promise that ‘ the Government will take all possible steps to put a recurrence of such indignities to the Head of this great church and his distinguished guests ’ . |
5 | Erm and I could see what they were after you know , an engineer has in his mind the plan and how to go about the thing and , and get it all done in a one-off situation . |
6 | ‘ And if rumour were to go about the levels that the T'ang has lost something important and would clear a deck to find it ? |
7 | Are there works which you had hoped to borrow for the exhibition but which are not being made available to you ? |
8 | Therefore the seller will be unable to sue for the price unless , at the time of the neglect or refusal to pay , he was ready and willing to deliver . |
9 | In the case of a small pay cut , for example , we have seen that it is sometimes safer to sue for the amount that you have lost , rather than give up your job . |
10 | Hewlett-Packard and IBM are both very interested in the microkernel planned by the Software Foundation , but that is two years away , which suggests that if applications developers do not start converting their applications to run under OSF/1 soon , for commercial reasons , all the sponsors currently at the V.3.2 level look likely to decide to wait for the microkernel and then implement their existing environments over it . |
11 | You had to wait for the flash and details of the changes in interest rates on Black Wednesday — a day of vital interest for small businessmen and mortgage holders up and down the country . |
12 | We had to wait for the police and the doctor to certify what had happened . |
13 | It 's Iris 's turn to call us really but , but I , I did think about Iris earlier and I should really phone just to see how your dad is , Bobby because it 's really up to her just to see about the weekend and much times that I 've phoned the hospital recently . |
14 | She had no idea how to proceed during the ceremony and was relieved that a man had to go first . |
15 | Oh by the way Miss Hall do you know anything , said P C Garfield , well said Jane I was n't going to tell , but I think Mr Sandy and their assistant knows something about it , because about twelve thirty this morning I was going to report about the cobwebs and dampness on the walls and I heard Mr Sandy and his assistant talking in the back room . |
16 | General cargo continued to flow through the port but there was a gradual decline in dock activity . |
17 | Amazingly , he only got the chance to go for the try because Cardiff players over-ruled skipper Mike Hall . |
18 | I decided to go for the barn and struck lucky twice in a row . |
19 | He joined the RAF fresh from A-levels and says he decided to go for the degree so he would have another string to his bow . |
20 | It is very tempting , as has been pointed out in the discussion on choosing an agency , to go for the ideas and ignore the reasons for them . |
21 | Those who are brave enough to hope for one of the few lectureships around tend to go for the astronomy or nuclear physics . |
22 | It is hardly possible to drive through the village and people have been climbing all over the wreck . |
23 | They also knew that he was a violent man , a man prepared not only to handle shotguns , but to saw off the barrel and to shoot sawn off shotgun at human beings . |
24 | The parade was scheduled to proceed through the city and skirt round the walls overlooking the Bogside . |
25 | Craig and other ministers were at pains afterwards to make it clear that irrespective of the likelihood of a rival parade , the march would not have been allowed to proceed through the Waterside or the walled city . |
26 | Under Biset 's orders they were to search for the evildoers and those who harboured them , and do whatever was necessary to maintain the king 's peace in those parts . |
27 | He varied this routine by pushing rubbish through the letter box , pulling the flowers from the tiny strip of garden we tried to cultivate between the flagstones and chalking rude messages on my car . |
28 | But it was only one of those sleeps into which he was ever more likely to fall during the day and she knew he would waken , roaring , in an hour or so . |
29 | I feel , she thought , as though we are besieged here , as though this were a fortress , and the whole world outside were one enormous enemy , ready to slide through the gates and the thickets of rhododendron and into our front door if we leave it open even a little . |
30 | I want my colleagues to continue to enthuse about the job and teach effectively . |