Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then Sir John was renowned throughout the diplomatic world for his savoir-faire , his monolithic calm and his ability to remain wholly unruffled in the most trying and difficult situations . |
| 2 | Ellen forgot herself so far as to sit down plump on the bed . |
| 3 | and of course , as I say , being at Cambridge there was a little theatre there and er we used to see so many of the actors and actresses that used to come into our lives you see because there were five places on the station , for instance , there was the tea room adjoining the , there was a large kiosk , large kiosk one girl in there , you see , and er there was , then there was this large which is the biggest and then the dining room that , you see and er so and , and one year I , I wrote it down but erm , one year I remember we took forty four thousand pounds which was a lot of money and er , you see , well er I got on very well with the girls |
| 4 | I must admit I was surprised to see so many of the players finding the water on the 18th hole but that just shows how much pressure there is even for players who have won Major Championships and who have earned millions of dollars and pounds from their ability . |
| 5 | She went back out into the daylight and began to gather together some of the larger rocks that were scattered about . |
| 6 | It is clear that one of the reasons why the companies were prepared to invest so much in the provision of housing for their workmen was because they could influence employees living in company houses at the pit gates far more effectively than those living in a more mixed community several miles from their place of work . |
| 7 | The argument is that he had power to enjoy so much of the income of Attleborough [ the overseas company ] as was spent in expenses , etc , so that by this route one arrives at a taxable amount of net income . |
| 8 | Modular Windows , meanwhile , is said to preserve so many of the standard Windows APIs that you 'll soon be able to run PageMaker on your TV . |
| 9 | The meetings of the Association helped both to raise the consciousness of scientists and also to enforce some specialization : members expected to attend only one of the sections . |
| 10 | And er guys started to go down that to the twenty foot level where they were picked up by an inflatable off the standby boat . |
| 11 | Erm they estimated there was going to be a continued out migration , but the aim of the original West Yorkshire structure plan and the p erm strategic guidance was to contain rather more of the population . |
| 12 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 13 | I do n't think I was on the same wavelength as the Prime Minister almost from the start , although I did work for her beforehand and try to pull together some of the policies . |
| 14 | Cooke was due to slip below Prean on the next list , which should appear at the start of the New Year , but unless there is a rapprochement between the player and the ETTA , whose chairman is Prean 's father John , the rankings will have lost much of their meaning . |
| 15 | She got to know so much about the individual and her home circumstances . |
| 16 | ‘ They 've got a lot to talk about , they used to know so many of the same people , ’ I said , to comfort him . |
| 17 | We began to ‘ talk ’ , though my ‘ kitchen Arabic ’ was only good enough to ply her with questions and to catch perhaps half of the answers . |
| 18 | If this is so then the Danzig Volkstag elections of 1927 would have confirmed this opinion , since the NSDAP polled a total of 1,400 votes to obtain only one of the 120 possible seats . |
| 19 | It 's a good idea to write down all of the incidents concerning your boss which you believe to be unfair . |
| 20 | The other part of your homework I 've given you to do , is to write down all of the intervals that you can possibly have . |
| 21 | That 's about the only people that I know of and then , cos later years I would say that they used to cart so much into the erm , into the other farms round here . |
| 22 | Now though the present owners are re-building the house and plan to pull down all of the existing part . |
| 23 | Developed and developing countries could both benefit from this discovery , though developing countries such as Bangladesh are likely to benefit more due to the higher incidence of diarrhoeal diseases . |
| 24 | One of the simplest things to do is to work off some of the tension by walking to the interview if at all possible . |
| 25 | To sum up all of the above in one phrase — cyclic controls speed , throttle controls height . |
| 26 | Still , as long as you 're not thinking about makin' me your fancy piece , I 'll do me best to stand up brave to the world . ’ |
| 27 | 17.33 With regard to spelling , the aim should be that by the end of compulsory schooling pupils should be able to spell confidently most of the words they are likely to need to use frequently in their writing ; to recognise those aspects of English spelling that are systematic ; to make a sensible attempt to spell words that they have not seen before ; to check their work for misspellings and to use a dictionary appropriately . |
| 28 | Eleven days ago these sides contrived to conjure up one of the really memorable Croke Park finals that wo n't be easily forgotten by those fortunate enough to have been present . |
| 29 | However , because some aspects of United Kingdom law were somewhat vague and ill-defined ( for example , the meaning of fair-dealing ) it was decided to tighten up some of the exceptions to copyright infringement , the necessary changes to the 1988 Act being made by the Copyright ( Computer Programs ) Regulations 1992 . |
| 30 | After the shooting of a UNICEF worker on Jan. 5 and of a third Red Cross worker on Jan. 15 , decisions were taken to pull out 15 of the 40 or so aid workers reported to be left in the city . |