Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun sg] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only reason for a backswing is to take the club far enough to gather sufficient speed to hit the ball an appreciable distance . |
| 2 | I decided to go the house a few gardens away where a few pitiful meows brings some food from the woman . |
| 3 | First , is the procedure that the buyer has to go through to claim the remedy a proper one from an administrative point of view , or is it designed to make it difficult or impossible in practice for the buyer to invoke the clause ? |
| 4 | ‘ It 's the thrill of the moment , and you do n't want to see the person the next day , because it ruins the moment . ’ |
| 5 | Nichols went to see the play a second time , then a call went out to Dustin 's agent , and arrangements were made to fly the actor out to his home town for a screen test . |
| 6 | We need to see the comfort a confused old person derives from holding a prayer book or rosary . |
| 7 | To see the impact the defensive routines are having , let's return to the division heads who are being managed by mixed messages . |
| 8 | Without being offered a particle of evidence to support the accusation the young man sees in an instant that it is true , and abandons the whole project . |
| 9 | ‘ I do not live with you , ’ she snapped , which was , of course , exactly what he 'd wanted her to do , because he began to grin the second the angry disclaimer left her mouth . |
| 10 | I 'll pick you up at five — that will give you time to arrange the holiday the delightful Myra thinks you should have . ’ |
| 11 | To meet the requirement a wide variety of qualifications may be offered : applicants under 21 with UK school qualifications should offer a minimum of three SCE Higher grade passes or two GCE Advanced level passes . |
| 12 | To meet the challenge the public authority would have to be transformed into a public limited company . |
| 13 | At last unable to bear the closeness the small table forced on them , she took her plate through to the kitchen , returning with a tray of coffee . |
| 14 | Erm if a window 's been smashed , then we 'll we 'll get the window boarded up to secure the flat the best possible way . |
| 15 | The castle 's stunted squad of masons and builders were still working to repair the damage the old man had done by tearing down walls in his attempt to prove these hidden glyphs were isolated aberrations , not — as they indeed were — ubiquitous . |
| 16 | Mollified in the autumn of 1297 by these gestures on behalf of the king , entrusted with the custody of the charters and their additions , and convinced by the recent Scottish success that England was in peril on that frontier at least , Winchelsey enthusiastically encouraged the clergy to grant the king a tenth . |
| 17 | Liège municipal council found itself bankrupt in September 1989 , when Gemeentekrediet , a publicly owned financial institution which gave credit to municipalities , refused to grant the city a new loan ( in addition to its debts which already totalled BF30,000 million ) , unless a guarantee from the Walloon regional government was obtained . |
| 18 | To redress the balance the Scottish Office held a workshop in Crieff in June 1992 on the role of the general practitioner in the primary care team . |
| 19 | Darlington Tory Coun Peter Jones said he believed the increases , set to net the council an extra £120,000 a year , would force motorists to Stockton and Middlesbrough to shop . |
| 20 | Finally I arrived at Ballinasloe , to find the station a long way from the town . |
| 21 | But in most cases the aim of the social services departments is to find the child a substitute home as near to a good , normal home as possible , until such time as he or she can return to their own home . |
| 22 | Other writers have complained , particularly in discrimination cases , that conciliation officers are too willing to encourage settlement at any price and fail to provide the support an unrepresented applicant may need against the relatively advantaged position of the employer ( Gregory , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | You can just click with the mouse to view the model a different way . ’ |
| 24 | If a request is made to exceed the limit a conscious decision needs to be made . |
| 25 | But she was trotting off to the churchyard to clean the stone the other day . |
| 26 | When the staff knew he was coming to visit the school the whole place was spring cleaned . |
| 27 | To cut a long story short his mate tried to open the bridge the wrong way and the boat drifted down and hit it . |
| 28 | On the boat was an old couple and approaching the bridge he got off and left his wife in charge of the boat , He also attempted to open the bridge the wrong way and once again the boat hit the bridge and knocked it off its hinges . |
| 29 | The gig sold out months ago and , despite EMF 's claims to be moving away from the teeny audience , Silverfish are forced to open the show a good two hours earlier than normal to accommodate the expected exodus of punters heading for an early bedtime . |
| 30 | Neil Jenkins ’ restart was gathered by Gary Armstrong and the scrum-half , like some meteorological mystic , harnessed the swirling gusts in the corridor down the east stand side to hoof the ball a gargantuan 70 metres . |