Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again and again he swiped at Chloe , but she remained convinced that this was a game and every time her friend approached she darted away and went to sit somewhere else in the clearing , her tail brushing the ground frantically . |
| 2 | The exceptions , which have some form of developed street network , a more diverse range of buildings and perhaps even a central core , clearly stand out from the pack on current evidence , and they can thus be seen to compare most favourably with the urban patterns recognizable within the major towns and cities of the province . |
| 3 | When Tom produced a half-firkin of ale , saved from his own wedding , it became apparent the celebration was going to carry on far into the night . |
| 4 | Two species of butterfly fish have been observed to swim slowly backwards at the first hint of trouble , making their false eyes seem even more real . |
| 5 | Already , the germ is present which was to flower most fully in The Last Battle : the idea of school holidays being a mere Platonic shadow of our permanent refreshment in Paradise , of our earthly homes being but a reflection of heaven . |
| 6 | In Andrew 's world the pocket-knife that belonged to Iain 's recollection became a cleaver that seemed to go so close to the bone as to almost sever completely . |
| 7 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 8 | If it 's appropriate for him to sit down there with the project manager , then we have n't got a problem . |
| 9 | Now one of the most important things that we 've established erm is that er you need to sit down still with the secretary of the club and say right now you 've got this list of businesses tell me more about them . |
| 10 | Nor had he to wait long there for the train running in connection with the sailing of the ‘ Iona ’ steamship from Greenock . |
| 11 | However , if we are to go much further along the road to open learning mentioned earlier , we need to explore and extend the potential of electronic information transfer . |
| 12 | We urge the Government to go much further through the introduction of Strategic Environmental Assessment techniques to bring aggregates consumption down to levels that are environmentally and socially acceptable . |
| 13 | We urge the Government to go much further through the introduction of Strategic Environmental Assessment techniques to bring aggregates consumption down to levels that are environmentally and socially acceptable . |
| 14 | The new format certainly appeared to go down well with the packed crowd . |
| 15 | I had to go down there for the preview and then go down and bid . |
| 16 | This enables the interviewer to burrow much further into the complexities of some situations and may well introduce him to relevant factors which had not been thought of before at all . |
| 17 | British Rail tells us that the 5.51 Sheffield to Paddington train is 15 minutes late this evening , but I 've nothing to report so far on the buses . |
| 18 | A team of four individuals working together in a brainstorming session is likely to perform less well on the number of ideas generated than if the four individuals worked on their own . |
| 19 | For Pickford The Eternal Grind was a step towards her true screen self , which she was to discover most fully in The Poor Little Rich Girl of 1917 , a film which satirized the rich whilst it confirmed its star as the richest actress in the world . |
| 20 | In general , the impact on overall unemployment tended to bear most heavily on the most peripheral conurbations ( Merseyside , Tyne side and Clyde side ) . |
| 21 | Animation Works Interaction combines sound ( if your PC is MPC compatible ) , graphics , and animation to come somewhere close to the ultimate Multimedia package . |
| 22 | In the meantime there is surely more scope for capitalizing on the situation which appears to work remarkably well outside the classroom , namely peer communication . |
| 23 | He draped inflamable material over it and calibrated the switch to come on later in the day . |
| 24 | It should be noted in all these changes that an underlying Government objective is to pass on much of the cost of training to the industry . |
| 25 | Most of the people , just over two thirds , who spent all the last year of their life in a residential or nursing home were 85 or more , and it is this age group which is predicted to increase most rapidly in the next twenty years ( Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) , 1989 ) so it is likely that increasing numbers will spend the last year of their lives in such homes . |
| 26 | The mass market box is expected to come in well below the $5,000 — £4,000 — mark . |
| 27 | The mass market box is expected to come in well below the $5,000 — £4,000 — mark . |
| 28 | Because the polling system is new and complex , the results will not be known for several days , but most observers expect the local party 's candidates to come in far behind the Popular Front and other unofficial groups . |
| 29 | It will nearly always be easier subsequently to reach agreement to extend the partnership than to persuade an elderly partner to stand down voluntarily before the contractual date : hence the relative unpopularity of agreements which simply permit a partner at his option to retire upon reaching a certain age . |
| 30 | Thus it is likely to work much better with the OED than with shorter dictionaries ’ . |