Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pressure pad system ( described in " A Place of my Own " by G Fennel ) is used in some sheltered housing and can be fitted in ordinary housing 4.2.1 What support is necessary and available to enable the sufferer to remain at home ? |
| 2 | An examination of Volume II will quickly reveal the unfinished nature of parts of the material , but there is sufficient there to enable the reader to arrive at an understanding of Marx 's ideas . |
| 3 | My bedroom , for instance , had a ghost that used to come through it every night — it was n't a visible ghost but it was audible — and I used to see the door open at the other end of the room when I was in bed and then would hear this ‘ clunk clunk ’ … . |
| 4 | I bet he did n't even look up to see the goalkeeper coming at him and a defender closing in ready to clatter him when he scored . |
| 5 | Thus She smiled to hear me talk like that/He shuddered to hear of it are grammatical , *He jumped aside to see the car approaching at high speed/She was silent to be told she was wrong are not . |
| 6 | Hearing a loud noise through his drunken haze , Joe turned in time to see the car coming at him . |
| 7 | ‘ I happen to be one of those people who likes to see the game played at its highest level and a great opportunity has now been lost for Scotland . |
| 8 | The first Russian to mount the wall fell at once to a bullet from one of Thiercelin 's men , but now a slavonic deluge swamped the wall in a wave of green and grey , bayonets fixed , overran the Frenchmen on the terrace and began smashing at the door . |
| 9 | Globe-trotting Ray and Mark Hanna are due to attend the November airshow at Auckland , New Zealand , where they will fly some NZ-based warbirds . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ To do all we need in order to deviate the lava means at least 30 working hours . |
| 11 | The main consequence of these discussions was to set up an International Commission of Chemical Nomenclature to continue the work started at the conference . |
| 12 | The European Association for the Conservation of Energy says member states will not now be able to meet the targets set at the UNCED Rio summit [ see ED 59/60 ] . |
| 13 | The purpose of the experiment was to train the dog to salivate at the sound of the tuning fork without food being present . |
| 14 | Peter White of Midland Bank was less convinced , complaining of the failure of some large firms to adhere to a strict off-limits policy , and described an even worse practice of advancing a candidate who has undertaken to engage the headhunter involved at a later date if he or she lands the job . |
| 15 | Impending bankruptcy It may be preferred to activate the power to expel at an earlier date in the bankruptcy process so as to minimise the damage caused to the firm by protracted , and possibly contested proceedings . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the action of pulling your hand away is likely to cause the dog to snap at you , in a bid to restrain your hand . |
| 17 | In my judgment , as a matter of principle the colore officii cases are merely examples of a wider principle , viz. that where the parties are on an unequal footing so that money is paid by way of tax or other impost in pursuance of a demand by some public officer , these moneys are recoverable since the citizen is , in practice , unable to resist the payment save at the risk of breaking the law or exposing himself to penalties or other disadvantages . |
| 18 | The sink was squared-off and old fashioned , with a white splashback and a tilting mirror ; Forester switched on the fluorescent shaving light and tried to tip the mirror to look at himself , but it would n't stay in place until he found out how to tighten a chrome-plated hexagonal nut on the hinge . |
| 19 | I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done . |
| 20 | School children were encouraged , in June 1917 , to support the war effort by collecting tufts of sheep wool from hedges and thorns , while in September of that year Field Marshal French visited the town to inspect the troops camped at Wearde . |
| 21 | This is over and above the ability to schedule the transfer to run at given times . |
| 22 | And sadly the first time he flew without me he perished , leaving Bob Pointer and myself wondering why events in our puny lives are so ordained and arranged as to inflict the maximum hurt at a time like that . |
| 23 | We can help by asking these bodies to discuss the items raised at their meetings . |
| 24 | In any event , the distinction between looking at reports to identify the mischief aimed at but not to find the intention of Parliament in enacting the legislation is highly artificial . |
| 25 | The nurse must use her communication skills to help the patient feel at ease . |
| 26 | The final direction of outcome may well be different from the intentions of the participants at the start of the meeting but time and care have been applied to help the participants to arrive at the most effective consensus . |
| 27 | The major objective of the whole project was to examine this question , and it is clearly of great relevance , not only to dementia sufferers and their carers , who on the whole are known to prefer the sufferer to remain at home ( see Levin , 1983 ) but also to service-providers and policymakers anxious to explore the extent to which the pressure towards community care can be implemented in practice . |
| 28 | However , it should be noted that the demands of the National Curriculum , assessment and LMS have been such as to require the Authority to maintain at least as high a centralized INSET profile as previously , and present provision retains , alongside the new agenda of concerns dictated by the 1988 Education Reform Act ( ERA ) , many of the courses and themes established during the PNP period . |
| 29 | Terry Guy ( 32:00 ) held off the challenge of clubmate Ray O'Fourman ( 32:44 ) to win the Vets race at the Warwick University 10K … |
| 30 | And the chairman added : ‘ While we will have to strengthen the squad to compete at the higher level , we are certainly not looking for a lot of new players . |