Example sentences of "to [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Jim , the chap who lives next door to them came over the other night to collect a pound from me as my contribution to the er , sign on the lamppost saying that this is a watch neighbourhood watch area , now it 's |
| 2 | Listening to them complaining about the usual stuff ! |
| 3 | The headmaster at the school gave a talk to all the children and issued a warning to them to beware of the Rottweiler breed in particular . |
| 4 | This practice , borrowed from the United States , recognises that until shares are issued they confer no rights at all , and that the rights ultimately attached to them depend on the company 's decision at the time when they are issued . |
| 5 | Opposition to them resulted in the proposals being withdrawn . |
| 6 | In Jacobs v Wessex Regional Health Authority [ 1984 ] CLY 2618 the respondents were ordered to pay the costs in any event where the plaintiff 's solicitors had written letters to them referring to the reasonableness of their request for discovery , the relevant authorities and the saving in public expense from voluntary discovery to a legally aided plaintiff . |
| 7 | I could hear one of the children crying and shouted to them to get on the floor . |
| 8 | He has also earned the respect of the players who know that Nigel can hold the key to them returning to the side quickly . |
| 9 | In emotions that were not her own , waves had a liquid pounding substance to them culled from the beaches of Earth 's Pacific Ocean . |
| 10 | Steele v. Williams and Hooper v. Exeter Corporation were cited in argument , but no reference to them appears in the judgments . |
| 11 | They can not , it is submitted — and certainly the plaintiffs themselves can not — be held responsible if , after the documents are returned to them executed in the presence of a solicitor , it subsequently transpires that the addressee has chosen to ignore the counsel that he was given . |
| 12 | How his ancestors had left the meat that Queen Victoria had sent over to them to fight in the streets rather than accept help from the English . |
| 13 | All of these factors seem to me to point to the desirability of the judgment being exercised by the local authority , with their unique knowledge of the facts , rather than by the courts . |
| 14 | You would have forfeited Tracy Castle immediately , and ‘ t would have been granted to me to hold for the King . |
| 15 | The two who had been talking to me went with the others back to their vehicle . |
| 16 | The beautiful tawny stone of the great churches and university buildings seemed to me stained with the blood of Republican idealists in the British battalion of the 15th International Brigade . |
| 17 | ‘ Would you kindly explain to me why you have allowed a confidential document belonging to me to fall into the hands of a junior member of my staff ? ’ |
| 18 | Have you wound that clock up ? , it looks a bit slow to me compared with the others |
| 19 | But even if Sheridan 's case was rightly decided and a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense will support a plea of autrefois convict , that does not appear to me to lead to the conclusion that a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense must end the power of the court to allow a plea to be changed . |
| 20 | The significance of understanding these differences in their various material and historical forms seems to me to lie in the way they point to the differences of television 's subjectivities . |
| 21 | Much of the writing about television fiction seems to me to remain at the level of elementary genres , grounded in the dominance of the semantic aspect , with relatively little analytic or historical attention to the ‘ verbal ’ ( style , mise-en-scene ) or the ‘ syntactic ’ ( narrative structure ) : there is very little close textual analysis of television fiction , and there is no scholarly history of the development of television form to compare with the histories which have emerged of early cinema . |
| 22 | Because I had a number of people who 've been on to me talking about the mess on the , on the recreation ground , and asking what it 's for , and as soon as you explain why , you know , it 's been accepted . |
| 23 | While writing this chapter , it occurred to me to look through the list of constellations to see in how many the five leading stars were , in order , Alpha , Beta , Gamma , Delta and Epsilon . |
| 24 | You say when you had handcuffed him he said something to me asking along the lines of what were we doing in his house . |
| 25 | Other similarities between the suicide and the anorexic seem to me to relate to the individual 's reactions to an impinging world . |
| 26 | This result could have been spelled out more clearly in the statutes but it seems to me to follow from the provisions of the statutes as they stand and , contrary to the argument of Mr. Page , to be no more curious than the alternative for which he contends . |
| 27 | And er I think somebody said to me beware of the man who wears a dicky bow during the day . |
| 28 | The most important principles of conduct , which apply to everyone working in the ES , are contained in the following four statements : |
| 29 | The 9ft x 2ft 6in banner aims to offer a friendly welcome to everyone arriving at the school . |
| 30 | Because they were so close to the city , the trucks travelled through the night and , by dawn , Cable announced over the intercom to everyone sitting in the back that Arcady 's higher domes were now visible on the horizon . |