Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] control [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Major Burrows suffered a great deal with asthma and had taken leave from the corps for a year to try to get control of the symptoms which were becoming chronic . |
| 2 | Her only way of coping with her over-identification with my situation was to try to reassert control over the child I used to be and prevent the cycle repeating itself . |
| 3 | To avoid losing control of the analysis process it was necessary to list the activities in tabular form as well as show them diagrammatically ( Fig 11.7 ) . |
| 4 | Although a descriptive grammar gives detailed coverage of the facts about a language , it is not written in a form which can be used directly to acquire speaking control of the language . |
| 5 | On June 8 , however , the government claimed to have regained control of the airport complex . |
| 6 | Gloucester seems already to have had control of the forest , and granted a fee from two closes there in 1473 , which suggests that it may have been assigned to him as warden of the west march , although this is nowhere explicitly stated . |
| 7 | Gloucester seems already to have had control of the forest , and granted a fee from two closes there in 1473 , which suggests that it may have been assigned to him as warden of the west march , although this is nowhere explicitly stated . |
| 8 | From March 2 the Tigre People 's Liberation Front ( TPLF ) and their allies , grouped under the title of the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) , claimed to have gained control of the Gojam region north-west of Addis Ababa , as part of a successful offensive launched on Feb. 23 . |