Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I introduced the hemp earlier the fish seemed to go off the feed so I only introduced it for four or five casts . |
| 2 | Right , first of all I 'd like to apologize for the fact that Alan 's report and my report especially the first half , are very similar . |
| 3 | He delivered a strong attack on Paisley and sent his Minister for Home Affairs to the General Assembly to apologize for the demonstration and to promise that ‘ the Government will take all possible steps to put a recurrence of such indignities to the Head of this great church and his distinguished guests ’ . |
| 4 | Erm and I could see what they were after you know , an engineer has in his mind the plan and how to go about the thing and , and get it all done in a one-off situation . |
| 5 | Are there works which you had hoped to borrow for the exhibition but which are not being made available to you ? |
| 6 | Therefore the seller will be unable to sue for the price unless , at the time of the neglect or refusal to pay , he was ready and willing to deliver . |
| 7 | In the case of a small pay cut , for example , we have seen that it is sometimes safer to sue for the amount that you have lost , rather than give up your job . |
| 8 | Hewlett-Packard and IBM are both very interested in the microkernel planned by the Software Foundation , but that is two years away , which suggests that if applications developers do not start converting their applications to run under OSF/1 soon , for commercial reasons , all the sponsors currently at the V.3.2 level look likely to decide to wait for the microkernel and then implement their existing environments over it . |
| 9 | You had to wait for the flash and details of the changes in interest rates on Black Wednesday — a day of vital interest for small businessmen and mortgage holders up and down the country . |
| 10 | It 's Iris 's turn to call us really but , but I , I did think about Iris earlier and I should really phone just to see how your dad is , Bobby because it 's really up to her just to see about the weekend and much times that I 've phoned the hospital recently . |
| 11 | She had no idea how to proceed during the ceremony and was relieved that a man had to go first . |
| 12 | General cargo continued to flow through the port but there was a gradual decline in dock activity . |
| 13 | Amazingly , he only got the chance to go for the try because Cardiff players over-ruled skipper Mike Hall . |
| 14 | I decided to go for the barn and struck lucky twice in a row . |
| 15 | He joined the RAF fresh from A-levels and says he decided to go for the degree so he would have another string to his bow . |
| 16 | Those who are brave enough to hope for one of the few lectureships around tend to go for the astronomy or nuclear physics . |
| 17 | It is hardly possible to drive through the village and people have been climbing all over the wreck . |
| 18 | They also knew that he was a violent man , a man prepared not only to handle shotguns , but to saw off the barrel and to shoot sawn off shotgun at human beings . |
| 19 | The parade was scheduled to proceed through the city and skirt round the walls overlooking the Bogside . |
| 20 | Craig and other ministers were at pains afterwards to make it clear that irrespective of the likelihood of a rival parade , the march would not have been allowed to proceed through the Waterside or the walled city . |
| 21 | But it was only one of those sleeps into which he was ever more likely to fall during the day and she knew he would waken , roaring , in an hour or so . |
| 22 | I want my colleagues to continue to enthuse about the job and teach effectively . |
| 23 | The need to plan for the staffing as well as the financing of the social services does not apply only to the professionals : we can not decide to double our output of houses in order to deal with housing shortages and obsolescence without regard to the manpower resources of the building industry as well as to the availability of suitable architects . |
| 24 | It would help us to plan for the future if you would be so kind as to take a few minutes to fill in this questionnaire . |
| 25 | ( There was of course little incentive to plan for the future when work was often obtained on a casual basis and wages were irregular . ) |
| 26 | If this goes in easily by more than a few millimetres , rot is probably present , and you 'll have to strip off the paint so you can repair it . |
| 27 | But environmental standards , as I see it , and whatever form now , whether in the posh green sense or the nitty gritty sense , which is equally as important and sometimes forgotten , environmental standards transcend , obviously transcend politics and so what I want to , would would would want to do , is to try to strip off the politics and indeed to strip off the emotion , because that 's the other thing which I think affects any real consideration of environmental issues . |
| 28 | And what nicer way to round off the evening than to have a quiet nightcap on the terrace with new-found friends , or take a gentle moonlit stroll along the beach . |
| 29 | As the fly just touches the ground , air circulation from under this area is limited , though there is plenty of room for air to circulate between the fly and the inner . |
| 30 | ‘ We have continued to invest during the recession and have taken vigorous action to reduce costs , increase productivity , and improve our competitive position . |