Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After moving to England , he fought for over two years without being defeated and reckoned : ‘ Ninety per cent of the public wanted to see me win the British title . |
| 2 | In the second half of 1934 and in 1935 the movement all but collapsed as a national force , and to revive its fortunes the fascist political programme was de-emphasized and instead more attention was paid to fomenting local and regional grievances in populist campaigns . |
| 3 | If so , he will often need to know what action the local authority has taken before the matter came to court and whether this complied with the requirements of the Act . |
| 4 | Arrangements were carefully made so that Lunia would not be compromised and Modigliani came to paint her portrait the following day in the Sunny Hotel on the Boulevard de Port-Royal , the little lodging house where Zborowski was living with his handsome and somewhat forbidding common-law wife , Anna ( Hanka ) Zborowska . |
| 5 | " To-morrow I 've promised to take Lizzie to see her niece the other side of Bridgeborough , " Sara said quickly , glad of the genuine excuse . |
| 6 | Miss Bedwelty had said she would come over to see their horses the following week . |
| 7 | as if to signal their displeasure the Dutch parliament passed a constitutional amendment in 1952 incorporating West New Guinea into the Netherlands and closing off further discussion of the issue . |
| 8 | Bolivians prefer to choose their governments the democratic way , but this is not to say that they admire the means at present available for doing it . |
| 9 | When the Queen came to visit her grandchild the following day her comment was typical . |
| 10 | To widen its support the Communist Party sent representatives to a meeting with the National Unemployed Workers Movement and the ILP . |
| 11 | In a bid to regain his machine the unemployed roofer climbed to the top of a building , ripped off tiles and threw them into the street , it was alleged . |
| 12 | In addition , retinoic acid is insoluble in water and so would remain where we put it in the limb for some time ; this was important because we already knew that to exert its effect the grafted polarizing region needed more than 12 hours . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's askin' for a chair , ’ the carrier motioned his partner , the back half of the sedan chair pair , to help him corner the hapless Ingram 's custom . |
| 14 | In this issue you can read about Auvers-sur-l'Oise where many of the Impressionists lived and painted , which has decided to give its tourists the hyperreal experience of walking through ‘ Dejeuner sur l'herbe ’ and travelling in the padded compartments of a nineteenth-century train with Monet landscapes outside . |
| 15 | The UK wants the citizens of its colony to be involved in settling their future and to give their legislators the final word on any deal . |
| 16 | Some schools have insufficient specialist accommodation to be able to give their pupils the basic curriculum . |
| 17 | The experts at Gliss Cormist recommend their cleansing , conditioning and styling range to give your hair the ultimate sheen . |
| 18 | I had a tremendous struggle to keep my medication the whole time I was in Holloway , and it started again when I went to Styal . |
| 19 | Is this a consideration which helps anybody to decide which district the new settlement should go in ? |
| 20 | A Word Child ( 1975 ) , indeed , is so specific in its references to places , and especially to places on the London Underground , that the narrator remarks he was once tempted to call his story the Inner Circle ; and Martin Amis 's London Fields ( 1989 ) is almost as detailed about Notting Hill as if it were a guide-book . |
| 21 | Rushdie had announced on Dec. 24 that he had embraced Islam and withdrawn permission to allow his book The Satanic Verses to be published in paperback . |
| 22 | He had hoped by this gesture to spare his people the customary vengeance which the Turks exacted indiscriminately against the population when Serbs defied them . |
| 23 | The daddy held the receiver at arm 's length , to spare his ears the inevitable assault . |
| 24 | To emphasise his authority the unforgiving Rangers boss exposed Roberts to a humiliating period as a reserve team substitute . |
| 25 | To complete their picture the local authorities had to discredit Mr M and his work with the family . |
| 26 | Yet before he made the astonishing leap from Paupers ' Alley with Cambridge United to Millionaires ' Row with Manchester City Dublin , 23 , had to learn his lessons the hard way . |
| 27 | Good to get your card the other day and to know that you got safely home from , even if concerned by the cost of the visit . |
| 28 | It would then be possible to see what progress the Welsh Office and its various agencies are making towards the attainment of common goals . |
| 29 | It is the task of the sociologist to understand all this , to find out what has been done already in this field , to see what light the general background of religious and familial studies can shed on this particular social act , and to formulate original ideas in a more explicitly sociological fashion . |
| 30 | Any move in this direction should be resisted because it is vital as part of the monitoring process to see what impact the single market is having on our national economy . |