Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heat was beginning to go off the streets and the shadows were creeping out from the walls . |
| 2 | ‘ And if rumour were to go about the levels that the T'ang has lost something important and would clear a deck to find it ? |
| 3 | We had to wait for the police and the doctor to certify what had happened . |
| 4 | Oh by the way Miss Hall do you know anything , said P C Garfield , well said Jane I was n't going to tell , but I think Mr Sandy and their assistant knows something about it , because about twelve thirty this morning I was going to report about the cobwebs and dampness on the walls and I heard Mr Sandy and his assistant talking in the back room . |
| 5 | It is very tempting , as has been pointed out in the discussion on choosing an agency , to go for the ideas and ignore the reasons for them . |
| 6 | Under Biset 's orders they were to search for the evildoers and those who harboured them , and do whatever was necessary to maintain the king 's peace in those parts . |
| 7 | He varied this routine by pushing rubbish through the letter box , pulling the flowers from the tiny strip of garden we tried to cultivate between the flagstones and chalking rude messages on my car . |
| 8 | I feel , she thought , as though we are besieged here , as though this were a fortress , and the whole world outside were one enormous enemy , ready to slide through the gates and the thickets of rhododendron and into our front door if we leave it open even a little . |
| 9 | Erm , and you know , let's face it , I did n't have to go through the circumstances that they went through in the war , and there therefore , who who am I to judge |
| 10 | It is n't a half term just pain , mainly now to go through the options and choose it but if you were perhaps bring in as you co , I 've got written down your careers officer |
| 11 | So er we used to go through the motions and er after about er three weeks I think it was , no , yeah , two or three weeks anyway . |
| 12 | We did n't , we have n't cos Les has to go through the books and charge |
| 13 | Okay , what I 'd like to do now is to go through the pads that you 've been given . |
| 14 | He 's going to go through the tapes and pick the bits he 'd like to use on Monday next week ( with a stop watch to get an idea of the bits he 's interested in ) and will book into the OUTC studio on George Street ( 278802 ) during week you 're away ( 1 day 's booking max ) , expecting some help from Astrid/Simon/anyone else who 's around . |
| 15 | Poopathy is chosen to liaise between the women and ERA , and the group draws up a plan of action . |
| 16 | The foregoing Committee shall have full power to arrange for the nights and subjects , and also to fix the nights for Magic Lantern Entertainments . |
| 17 | Erm t th certainly it makes me really angry that people have to struggle for the basics and I you know I I just do n't see how people who are on long term benefits , erm state benefits , can survive without getting into serious debt . |
| 18 | One of the products that seemed to slip through the cracks when Eastman Kodak Co 's Interactive Systems Corp , Naperville , Illinois , sold its packaged Unix division off to Sunsoft Inc was Norton Utilities for Unix . |
| 19 | The new , Kixx-produced packaging tells you all you need to know about the controls and special weapons ; it even included a few tips on baddie bashing , but gives no idea as to how you came to be doing it or why ! |
| 20 | ‘ And you did n't want her to know about the letters because it would rake it all up again ? ’ |
| 21 | The Department needs to know about the incidents that staff experience as they do their work , in order to plan to make working conditions safer , and to train staff in the best ways of dealing with violence if they meet it . |
| 22 | Visitors are free to wander through the woods and across the extensive lawns to admire the lily pond , the fountain and the rose gardens . |
| 23 | At the same time food was becoming harder to find as the mammals and birds he might have caught were kept off the moors or in hibernation by the still unthawed snow which lay bleakly below him . |
| 24 | Basically er the broad overall description would be to compensate for the conditions that the tenants had been living in prior to the move . |
| 25 | Because she had to provide for the Barons and for her other gentleman who was still with her she was obliged to go out daily to market and this quite ordinary transaction restored some of her spirits . |
| 26 | Compacts also provide an invaluable forum for dialogue between teachers and employers to discuss and clarify ways in which the curriculum should be developed so as best to provide for the needs and interests of students in and beyond school . |
| 27 | ‘ At least I do n't have to worry about the bailiffs because there is nothing left to take . ’ |
| 28 | Like the woman said there , there seems to be a lot of help for people who are on drugs , and who then want to come off them , but the after-care service seems to be you know , a lot erm , there 's not a lot help for the people , they get the help to come off the drugs and then they 're put back into the society that they are from and they seem to still have that pressure to go back to where they were previously . |
| 29 | Only four wheeled drive trucks were able to pass through the floods but apart from them and buses and lorries , Debenham was cut off . |
| 30 | All you are going to need to work through the examples and exercises I will be giving you each month is access to either a metronome or drum machine . |