Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had no idea how to proceed during the ceremony and was relieved that a man had to go first . |
| 7 | I decided to go for the barn and struck lucky twice in a row . |
| 8 | It is hardly possible to drive through the village and people have been climbing all over the wreck . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The parade was scheduled to proceed through the city and skirt round the walls overlooking the Bogside . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I want my colleagues to continue to enthuse about the job and teach effectively . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ We have continued to invest during the recession and have taken vigorous action to reduce costs , increase productivity , and improve our competitive position . |
| 16 | An important part of the research process is to search through the literature and find what ideas similar to your own have been investigated in the past , and then by learning what became of the earlier ideas you can avoid their mistakes and build on the successes . |
| 17 | He asked a scout to search through the turmoil and pick out Tiguary , if possible , or someone who could give him a message . |
| 18 | He threw with such power that Mungo half expected his darts to go through the board and stick in the wall . |
| 19 | I want you to go through the list and then supply some girls who will be unknown to any of the people here . " |
| 20 | Every month discipline yourself to go through the file and identify at least ten external contacts to phone . |
| 21 | The Central Bank liberalized its foreign exchange regulations on Feb. 1 , 1990 , eliminating the system which required all transactions to go through the bank and to take place at a fixed daily rate . |
| 22 | This ensures that each learner has a chance in class to go through the handout and study it . |
| 23 | I wish to go through the argument and then I shall willingly give way to the hon. Gentleman . |
| 24 | Direct , the same as erm fertiliser coming in , a lot of lorries would come down there and get the fertiliser , different say merchants , different farmers , they used to go through the agent and they 'd buy so much off the agent , this different fertiliser if could n't supply it , what they wanted . |
| 25 | I would like to thank for the enthusiasm and commitment she has given to her ante-natal classes and I know that past ‘ students ’ will have been greatly reassured during their pregnancies by , appreciated her teaching and enjoyed her sense of humour . |
| 26 | In some LEAs there are qualified teachers whose job is to liaise between the school and the home , by visiting the child 's family at home , seeing parents if they visit the school , and by organising activities , both during and after school hours , to encourage parental involvement with the school and with their children 's education . |
| 27 | Much of the energy at these wavelengths is absorbed by the atmosphere , which means that a remote sensing instrument such as the MSS or TM would , if it operated in one of these bands , be unable to see through the atmosphere and consequently would be unable to obtain any information about the surface of the Earth . |
| 28 | I hope you will be able to arrange for the removal and disposal of this vehicle or if not perhaps you would let me know who can . |
| 29 | People often prefer to rationalize after the event and convince themselves things went well and ‘ according to plan ’ , rather than compare what was actually achieved against the objective . |
| 30 | Before she 'd had a chance to react , to jump off the bed and snatch the towel , seize some kind of weapon to defend herself from whoever it was prowling around , the bedroom door swung open and the light clicked on . |