Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] and " 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 | We had to wait for the police and the doctor to certify what had happened . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is n't a half term just pain , mainly now to go through the options and choose it but if you were perhaps bring in as you co , I 've got written down your careers officer |
| 9 | So er we used to go through the motions and er after about er three weeks I think it was , no , yeah , two or three weeks anyway . |
| 10 | We did n't , we have n't cos Les has to go through the books and charge |
| 11 | He 's going to go through the tapes and pick the bits he 'd like to use on Monday next week ( with a stop watch to get an idea of the bits he 's interested in ) and will book into the OUTC studio on George Street ( 278802 ) during week you 're away ( 1 day 's booking max ) , expecting some help from Astrid/Simon/anyone else who 's around . |
| 12 | Poopathy is chosen to liaise between the women and ERA , and the group draws up a plan of action . |
| 13 | The foregoing Committee shall have full power to arrange for the nights and subjects , and also to fix the nights for Magic Lantern Entertainments . |
| 14 | Erm t th certainly it makes me really angry that people have to struggle for the basics and I you know I I just do n't see how people who are on long term benefits , erm state benefits , can survive without getting into serious debt . |
| 15 | The new , Kixx-produced packaging tells you all you need to know about the controls and special weapons ; it even included a few tips on baddie bashing , but gives no idea as to how you came to be doing it or why ! |
| 16 | Visitors are free to wander through the woods and across the extensive lawns to admire the lily pond , the fountain and the rose gardens . |
| 17 | At the same time food was becoming harder to find as the mammals and birds he might have caught were kept off the moors or in hibernation by the still unthawed snow which lay bleakly below him . |
| 18 | Because she had to provide for the Barons and for her other gentleman who was still with her she was obliged to go out daily to market and this quite ordinary transaction restored some of her spirits . |
| 19 | Compacts also provide an invaluable forum for dialogue between teachers and employers to discuss and clarify ways in which the curriculum should be developed so as best to provide for the needs and interests of students in and beyond school . |
| 20 | Like the woman said there , there seems to be a lot of help for people who are on drugs , and who then want to come off them , but the after-care service seems to be you know , a lot erm , there 's not a lot help for the people , they get the help to come off the drugs and then they 're put back into the society that they are from and they seem to still have that pressure to go back to where they were previously . |
| 21 | All you are going to need to work through the examples and exercises I will be giving you each month is access to either a metronome or drum machine . |
| 22 | In resisting rationalism he risks emphasising paradox to the point where it can seem sheerly irrational ; his insistence on the otherness of God and the sinfulness of man , and his fondness for some of the more arbitrary-seeming accounts of God in the stories of Abraham and Job , leave much too little place for a positive grasp of grace and mercy , goodness and love , though he does attempt to give them place ; his stress upon the centrality of the incarnation of God in Jesus commonly seems to reduce to the bare repetition of the claim that Jesus was also , paradoxically , God , but not fully to work through the implications and purpose of this identification of God with man ; his bitter attacks upon ‘ Christendom ’ in his latter years reveal rather too much of the solitary individualist who has little sense of the nature of community . |
| 23 | When that gone down they used to splash cos that used to come underneath the buckets and our cabin hatchway was facing that and many a time that 'd come right down the cabin , the mud . |
| 24 | The harbour was crammed with the great prahus which we had come so far for , but our attempts to communicate with the captains and crewmen were discouraging . |
| 25 | She had decided it ought n't to be too difficult to slip into the stables and up the ladder first , but this time she did n't even reach the water pail . |
| 26 | Yet he realised how important it was to work with the Russians and he had no intention of disrupting the wartime alliance . |
| 27 | This will mean , of course , that the trainers will have to work with the students and the qualified interpreters to develop these structures . |
| 28 | ‘ We are prepared to work with the police and to provide the information needed to bring the perpetrators of attacks to justice , ’ he says , adding that he would like to see Mr McLean in the hope of building a relationship . |
| 29 | Beginning as a Cossack revolt against government encroachment on their traditional liberties , the uprising rapidly attracted support from Old Believers , minority nationalities trying to shake off Russian colonization ( most notably the Bashkirs ) , serfs assigned to work in the mines and factories of the Urals , and tens of thousands of peasants . |
| 30 | like most of the the child care was done by the girls , but there was actually a few of the boys that decided they wanted to work in the nurseries and o eh the five that done , there 's actually two that we know of a are actually doing child care as a career . |