Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] [subord] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Amazingly , he only got the chance to go for the try because Cardiff players over-ruled skipper Mike Hall . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The need to plan for the staffing as well as the financing of the social services does not apply only to the professionals : we can not decide to double our output of houses in order to deal with housing shortages and obsolescence without regard to the manpower resources of the building industry as well as to the availability of suitable architects . |
| 6 | It would help us to plan for the future if you would be so kind as to take a few minutes to fill in this questionnaire . |
| 7 | ( There was of course little incentive to plan for the future when work was often obtained on a casual basis and wages were irregular . ) |
| 8 | If this goes in easily by more than a few millimetres , rot is probably present , and you 'll have to strip off the paint so you can repair it . |
| 9 | And what nicer way to round off the evening than to have a quiet nightcap on the terrace with new-found friends , or take a gentle moonlit stroll along the beach . |
| 10 | It would be possible to search through the file until the record was located , but this technique , and the more refined methods available for searching sequential files in which there is no direct relationship between the record key and its storage location , are too slow for the needs of most enquiry systems . |
| 11 | Inside , maids in black took coats for tickets , and told everyone to go through the lounge as Mrs Coley was receiving in the pool area . |
| 12 | You 've got to go through the rough before you can get to the smooth . |
| 13 | Then we all came together again to go through the material before we started to teach it . |
| 14 | Lenny Campion ran forward and Sorvino hung back , ready to sprint for the car if this should be a trick to shake them off . |
| 15 | As I keep saying , it 's difficult to jump off the merry-go-round once it 's in motion . |
| 16 | We had to make a hollow in the mud , and we lay there like swallows : we used to long for the dark so we could stand up and straighten our legs . |
| 17 | He is happy to write about the monarchy because he believes royalty is ‘ the point where divine qualities become ordinary human qualities ’ . |
| 18 | such permanent staff continue to work for the Council if they wish to do so ; and , where possible , |
| 19 | According to Marx 's theory the many different units were willing to unite and contribute their labour to work for the despot because this appeared , not as working for him , but as working for ‘ the higher unity ’ , which , they wrongly believed , was the source of their continued existence . |
| 20 | Will the vendor continue to work for the company after it is sold ? |
| 21 | But may I add a special welcome to the unsung heroines and heroes who are not permanent staff , but give up their time — and in some cases their entire annual leave — to work for the Festival when the high pressure time arrives . |
| 22 | As a younger and have plenty of time to worry about the menopause before it happens |
| 23 | As with the word ‘ church ’ , the synagogue came to stand for the building as well as the people meeting there . |
| 24 | I went on the road when I was 19 , I needed to come off the road so I knew who I was . |
| 25 | The Chief Constable of the RUC added confusion to the parades policy by announcing that he would permit an Orange church parade on the Sunday before the Twelfth to pass through the Tunnel because it would be a ‘ peaceful , dignified , church parade ’ but insisted that the Twelfth march had to be re-routed . |
| 26 | Teams of journalists , just about to go home around l0 p.m. , were told to work through the night as fresh editions were prepared for issue as late as S a.m . |
| 27 | Since it was of relatively minor importance to whom the words for setting up a trust were addressed , it was possible to conceive of the trust as inhering in certain property in the estate , and therefore of the recipient of that property as automatically in the position of trustee for the intended beneficiary . |
| 28 | One of the major purposes of this book is to show that there is much in psychoanalytic theory and practice which is social , and that to conceive of the theory as being only about individuals is to misunderstand and misinterpret it . |
| 29 | In some ways it is better to communicate with the client and say that nothing has happened , than not to communicate with the client because nothing has happened . |
| 30 | Sir John Fastolf , involved in a long drawn-out lawsuit in Paris between 1432 and 1435 , could remind the court that he had been the first to jump into the sea when Henry V had come ashore in France in 1415 , and that the king had rewarded him with the grant of the first house which he had seen in France . |