Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Waves burst over the cockpit into the saloon only to pour out through the manhole each time the bridge-deck broke free for a moment . |
| 32 | We would advise the beginner never to write his cello and bass parts on the same stave : if he does , he will almost surely fall into the error of over-using the double bass , his mind 's ear , which acts through his eye , being almost certain to fail to register the lower octave . |
| 33 | ‘ Mind you look after the tarts , Bailey , while I collect some roses for the gel here to take to Miss Mates . |
| 34 | Michael Shersby , the MP who represents the police federation 's interests in the Commons , told our reporter Simon Mares that he found the sentence hard to understand . |
| 35 | Oh yes er when I was at home as a wee boy everybody milked by hand and give their calves the milk then to drink . |
| 36 | I took the afternoon off to see Ireland ( land of my birth ) illustrate just why Man City are a pile of shite , and then the agony of the evening . |
| 37 | Today men from the Thames Valley force took the afternoon off to join a national protest in London . |
| 38 | ‘ I have n't got the money just to go as a traveller , and there are n't that many jobs abroad . |
| 39 | After all he 's put the money in to pay pensions and the beneficiaries ought to have a strong hand in saying how that money is used , so we see half the trustees coming from the employer , the other half from the members of the pension fund , and we 've got a pension fund with the very heavy weighting of er pensioners and not so many employees and we would like to see the remaining seats er half the trustees elected , partly from the current employees , partly from the deferred pensioners and partly from the pensioners and reflecting in a broad way the numbers in each of those categories . |
| 40 | A. You can still make out a Deed of Covenant , and send the money directly to Save the Children by Postal Order . |
| 41 | In addition he accepted an undertaking by the defendent not to reveal other than to his legal advisers the fact that he had made communications to FIMBRA and the Inland Revenue . |
| 42 | Okay , let's swap over , what I want you to remember is it 's not a conversation it 's not the try not to get into a conversation what we 're trying to do is we 're trying to stick to one person 's trying to stick to their point the other person 's trying to take them off it , okay ? |
| 43 | He urged the parliament swiftly to pass legislation including the abolition of trade monopolies , faster privatization ( especially of shops ) , agrarian reform and tighter credit and monetary policies . |
| 44 | Similarly , pull-shifting the treble control lifts the operational frequency band and , again , moves the midrange automatically to compensate . |
| 45 | This settled , it is then for instructors to use the text both to guide the trainees through the handouts , and as source material for lecturing or workshops . |
| 46 | It also had to solve the problem of ‘ hidden lines ’ : how do you tell the computer not to draw those lines that the eye would not be able to see ? |
| 47 | There is an index which tells the computer where to look for each of the files and a serial search for the file is not necessary . |
| 48 | When asked why she allowed the computer so to dominate in this way , she replied ‘ It 's the first time they have been quiet for a whole week ! ’ , reflecting the second cause in the list above . |
| 49 | There is no reason why computers should n't be natural and friendly , it 's just that it takes a lot more memory in the computer to have all the complex rules of an ordinary language , and also it 's much harder to write the programs that tell the computer how to understand a natural language . |
| 50 | To aid sales of his systems , he encouraged other software companies to develop applications programs ( which tell the computer how to work as a word processor , spreadsheet , database manager and the like ) for use with them . |
| 51 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 52 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 53 | In his innocence he had allowed the salesman in to discuss doors . |
| 54 | The feeling in the country was for the Queen , and Haymo the Bishop advised the Archbishop not to go into the city because of the high feeling towards the bishops and the danger to their persons . |
| 55 | It is not unusual therefore for the contract expressly to deal with the time for payment and the time for delivery but to be silent about the time of the transfer of property . |
| 56 | ‘ We put the contract out to tender and were overwhelmingly impressed by Bookpoint , ’ Mr Webb said . |
| 57 | She said no I think I 'll go home I 'll be alright , so I took her back home about eleven and erm erm I kept phoning her every hour on the hour just to make sure she 's alright , then I said I want you just to promise me one thing you 're not do anything silly , I 'm here , I do n't care what it takes , I 'm here , so she said alright then , so I said it 'll break mum 's heart it 'll break dad 's heart , |
| 58 | For this reason alone , it is wise to advise the Chairman not to accept a motion " that the minutes be taken as read " . |
| 59 | Others are marked with lines and spots like an airfield to show the insect where to land and in which direction to taxi — foxgloves , violets , rhododendrons . |
| 60 | The continued unbroken trust in the Führer down to spring 1941 rested in no small measure on the lack of serious interference of the war in the conditions of ‘ everyday life ’ . |