Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regardless of the general press of humanity , a funeral procession was attempting to pass down it from the other end . |
| 2 | Should she try and get him back again or buy a newspaper first and try to find out what in the world he had been talking about ? |
| 3 | My priority is to get rid of discrimination and we shall have to find out which of the various possibilities will be the best alternative to that which is now proposed . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been asked by the Bishop to find out something about the background of Hereward Marr and his wife , ’ she tried , as an opener . |
| 5 | In consequence , months of painful and arduous negotiations had been wasted , largely because of the ignorance or the Bourbon attitude of the Foreign Office who did not bother to find out something on the basis that they already knew every piece of human knowledge that is worth knowing . |
| 6 | Today in order to meet the burgeoning demand for more and more creamy pints of Guinness , St. James 's Gate , through the recent investment of IR£200 million , has become one of the world 's most technologically advanced breweries , having the flexibility to brew virtually anything to the highest international standards . |
| 7 | Francis Bacon , well known for his capacity to drink nearly everyone under the table , left his friend John Edward , a son of a publican , £10 million in his will , which was published last month |
| 8 | By the time 1972 was out I had found a Vets club in join , the VAC as it was called , and I began to pick up something about the scene — where to find the minor races , who to go to for training advice , the way to use blocks and how to seek out physios for repair purposes — and I took up steady training . |
| 9 | He wanted to pick up something from the breakfast table and throw it on to the floor , the plate from which Mr Blakey had eaten his fry , the apricot jam , the tea-pot , the bundle of knives and forks that Kate had collected and put on top of the pile of green cereal bowls . |
| 10 | There was no sound from outside , although it was difficult to pick out anything in the torrential rain that battered both cottage and landscape . |
| 11 | I now have the confidence to tackle almost anything in the kitchen , pies , pastas , cakes , soups , meat dishes , vegetables and bread . |
| 12 | To return to Molla Fenari , one can not then determine with any certainty the date of his journey to Egypt since it is impossible to assert confidently which of the seemingly contradictory facts or sets of facts-Ibn Hajar 's statement that he made the journey in 778 , Taskopruzade 's statement that he went in company with Seyyid Serif , Taskopruzade 's association of Seyyid Serif 's arrival in Karaman with Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's death , and so on-deserves most weight , though perhaps the specific nature of Ibn Hajar 's date argues in its favour while , equally , the slight suspicion which always attaches to attempts to associate great figures of the past argues against the association of Molla Fenari and Seyyid Serif . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've only got to look around you at the marriages of people we know , ’ said Jannie , ‘ to see that 's not true . ’ |
| 14 | Or does he refuse to go near it for the rest of the session and become unsettled ? |
| 15 | Since this eighteen million metres of film is stored on nitrate media , which is highly flammable and prone to disintegrate under anything but the most optimum storage conditions , 20th Century-Fox has begun digitising it . |
| 16 | ‘ We feel it is our duty to put back something into the community , ’ he says . |
| 17 | I wanted to give back something for the great interest and happiness I have had from being able to make music to people . |
| 18 | For example , if you bought some apples from a market stall and they were mostly bad and you already had a few apples at home and if , say , your bus had arrived , it might be perfectly legitimate to do absolutely nothing about the situation and avoid any discussion about it . |
| 19 | He was prepared to believe almost anything of the London underground . |
| 20 | Since this shot occurs in two different scenes , maybe he tried it both ways , but it looks the same in each , tough repeated inspection fails to disclose conclusively which of the two possibilities it actually is . |
| 21 | Changing to bridged mono operation , which is as simple as flicking a switch , allows the CF-200 to kick out something in the region of 200 watts into 8 ohms — and all this from a 1U rack space . |
| 22 | I knew the first time was seldom ideal and I wanted to get past it to the second and third times , and all the times after that , when our love could go forward and mature and develop . |
| 23 | It is something of a relief to have let my clattering , panicking self go , to wear instead something of the forest 's stillness . |
| 24 | Elisabeth never craved to remove items ; to take away anything from The Tamarisks would be , she felt , to disfigure a perfectly beautiful body . |
| 25 | Chair , where , where erm , agreements er , leave things open wherever possible , the courts will interpret them as the parties intended to act reasonably one to the other , and er , if there were a formal agreement and that was then tested it would be a matter for the courts to decide what was reasonable , obviously asking for , what was it you 're suggesting , ten million ? |
| 26 | Not an easy thing to say when someone in the grip of an alien being is trying to make scrambled eggs out of your brains . |
| 27 | The renationalisation of the water industry would cost £3.8 billion — and that is to say absolutely nothing of the £28 billion programme which is currently in place and which will run for the rest of the decade . |
| 28 | - You start getting this strange maternal urge to bring in everything from the garden overnight . |
| 29 | Out of the last discussion , titled The Merseyside Perspective , came the idea for a new umbrella organisation to bring together everyone in the business locally . |
| 30 | The Protocol documentation , as is seen later , requires the seller 's conveyancer to prepare absolutely everything at the outset , so that a complete package is sent to the buyer 's conveyancer for consideration . |