Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heat was beginning to go off the streets and the shadows were creeping out from the walls . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Are there works which you had hoped to borrow for the exhibition but which are not being made available to you ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We had to wait for the police and the doctor to certify what had happened . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had no idea how to proceed during the ceremony and was relieved that a man had to go first . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | General cargo continued to flow through the port but there was a gradual decline in dock activity . |
| 12 | I decided to go for the barn and struck lucky twice in a row . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Those who are brave enough to hope for one of the few lectureships around tend to go for the astronomy or nuclear physics . |
| 15 | It is hardly possible to drive through the village and people have been climbing all over the wreck . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The parade was scheduled to proceed through the city and skirt round the walls overlooking the Bogside . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I want my colleagues to continue to enthuse about the job and teach effectively . |
| 24 | On March 28 as every year , ex-servicemen of the North will gather at Morrisons in Darlington to bowl for the Roland and George Bradford trophies for the honours of their Messes . |
| 25 | But environmental standards , as I see it , and whatever form now , whether in the posh green sense or the nitty gritty sense , which is equally as important and sometimes forgotten , environmental standards transcend , obviously transcend politics and so what I want to , would would would want to do , is to try to strip off the politics and indeed to strip off the emotion , because that 's the other thing which I think affects any real consideration of environmental issues . |
| 26 | As the fly just touches the ground , air circulation from under this area is limited , though there is plenty of room for air to circulate between the fly and the inner . |
| 27 | ‘ We have continued to invest during the recession and have taken vigorous action to reduce costs , increase productivity , and improve our competitive position . |
| 28 | An important part of the research process is to search through the literature and find what ideas similar to your own have been investigated in the past , and then by learning what became of the earlier ideas you can avoid their mistakes and build on the successes . |
| 29 | He asked a scout to search through the turmoil and pick out Tiguary , if possible , or someone who could give him a message . |
| 30 | He threw with such power that Mungo half expected his darts to go through the board and stick in the wall . |