Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 7 It 's terrific to see her without the bars between us. 8 She sits eating the treat food at the opening to the door and looking at me. 9 How does she know to look into my eyes and not at the huge finger next to her . |
| 2 | I used Acrylix brushes to paint the landscape study shown here . |
| 3 | The work , which is interesting but time-consuming , involves maintaining the almshouse , or the Dakyn Flats as it is now more popularly known , and other properties owned by the trust and from which rents are collected . |
| 4 | The accounting-based approach involves forecasting the entire balance sheet . |
| 5 | The list of recipient church projects is very long , ranging from refurbishment of church buildings to small revenue grants to enable the establishment of local good neighbour ( community care ) schemes . |
| 6 | It involves sucking the contaminated oil into a cleaning system housed in a mobile trailer , cleaning it and returning it to the transformer . |
| 7 | In the meantime , drivers Frank Galashan and Danny Hopkins are keeping the Waste Recycling lorry moving by taking it in turns to drive the vehicle to Leslie . |
| 8 | Enumerating known drug users involves contacting the management representatives of statutory and voluntary agencies whose clienteles include drug users , in order to obtain permission to collect information about these clients . |
| 9 | The scheme involves dredging the main channel of the Medway estuary to provide a storage base for import-export cargoes . |
| 10 | It involves bringing the piece itself before a Committee of State experts ; they declare its value and charge 100% Custom fees . |
| 11 | Often sounding like there 's no one driving , Mark 's recipe for recording involves bringing the barest bones of a song into the studio , letting the musicians bend it , stretch it , squash it , cook it and generally rip it to shreds , before setting about trying to sort out the sparks from the farts . |
| 12 | First , it involves bringing the exclusion directly to the attention of the buyer . |
| 13 | As a mode of explanation it involves bringing the outside in , and linking the particular to the general . |
| 14 | Until such time as the Secretary of State agrees to such a Commission , the Council agrees to support the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities ' call for a policy of non-co-operation between the Authority and The Scottish Office over the question of local government reorganisation . |
| 15 | Prior to the Peres visit , Japan had on Dec. 4 issued a call for an end to the Arab economic boycott of Israel , as a response to recent Israeli guarantees to curb the building of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories . |
| 16 | Cos I go , Steven goes erm , Steven goes bring the , to Shelley , he goes bring the mother-fuckers down like that . |
| 17 | Cos I go , Steven goes erm , Steven goes bring the , to Shelley , he goes bring the mother-fuckers down like that . |
| 18 | This concentrates on it but builds builds the platform on which other courses on advanced presentation skills and negotiation skills team presentation skills are all founded and so you 're able to er continue through er the courses . |
| 19 | A crucial clement in family therapy involves encouraging the autonomy of family members in working out their own solutions to problems and taking responsibility for their own actions , the therapist acting largely as an independent facilitator . |
| 20 | The second error involves completing the sentence fragment with an inappropriate type of content . |
| 21 | The NI table method involves using the Not contracted-out Tables , as follows : |
| 22 | Basically this involves using the right foot to draw the ball into the post from the left side of the field and the left foot to do the same from the right side . |
| 23 | This can produce bad posture and always involves using the eyes . |
| 24 | The Japanese machines will knit lace from specially produced and marked cards and this involves using the lace carriage for many transfer rows in between two knitted rows with the main carriage . |
| 25 | The process involves using the ants as tools , and is achieved in one of two ways . |
| 26 | One of these involves using the hind leg to scratch an area of skin to which an irritant has been applied . |
| 27 | The piece also involves using the potential of the spindle moulder to create solid shapes . |
| 28 | Ergativity involves using the object of a transitive verb as the subject of an intransitive verb : cf. An explosion shook the room and The room shook ( with the explosion ) . |
| 29 | Finally , the formulation stage involves using the results of the assessment process to identify objectives , plans , and strategies . |
| 30 | The second part of the project involves using the new insights which preferred point geometry offers to make practical the methods which both the new and existing theories produce . |