Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.

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1 I can answer that very briefly Mr Chairman er yes , there will be the capability to carry stand off weapons the conventionally armed stand off missile for example will have a good stand off range .
2 — Since John Constable left to brew beer in Butterknowle the Chain locker in North Shields opposite the ferry landing has vanished from the Good Pub Guide .
3 It was left to her brothers to pass comment at lunch the following day .
4 The emperor and empress had foreseen and tried to forestall resentment on Louis the German 's part at the grant to Charles .
5 I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge .
6 To add insult to injury the hypnotist claimed Kylie had failed to pay the consultation bill .
7 To add insult to injury the business of selecting students and allocating places was computerised in 1973 , and so it remains today .
8 To add insult to injury the roof leaked .
9 Anfield 's Welsh wizard also took time to pay tribute to Dalglish the player .
10 To remove nut from shank the shank-to-nut state must be progressively changed from a three-zone state , through two , down to one , where the single state has two zeros and one non-zero ( this space is the mirror of the head space ) .
11 If reform of this kind were to take place in England the new Crown Prosecution Service should provide a further safeguard against abuse .
12 For all the hard work on his and Sir David 's part , however , this proved too harsh a deadline ; but then with Mr George 's conference ending yet again in indecision , his lordship set his sights on a further great conference scheduled to take place in Switzerland the following year .
13 In the years between 300 and 550 there was much work of codification and it began to take shape under Theodosius the Great in the Western Empire in 438 .
14 However given the extent of monopoly ( and oligopoly ) in the NHS , the power of professional groups to win concessions , and the political need to guarantee equality of access the government has been forced to set narrow rules within which competition is allowed .
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