Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously there 's a lot of sterilizing going on in the meantime and all this . |
| 2 | There are arguments in favour of analysing costs down to the individual patient . |
| 3 | The thought of getting hung up with the council care people was horrific . |
| 4 | As Sharapour fell back it seemed for a moment as if he would get in the way of Mill Reef on the rails , but Lewis was alert to the perils of getting boxed in up the short Longchamp straight and pulled Mill Reef out to begin his challenge . |
| 5 | ‘ Just check the car , ’ Estabrook said , taking some satisfaction in the thought of sending Chant back across the no-man 's land between here and the perimeter . |
| 6 | The short-term lets often suit people such as students when the off-season coincides with their term , but for families the disruption of having to move out for the summer is frustrating . |
| 7 | In fact once inside the Park , one had the definite impression of having stepped back into the past . |
| 8 | There was something in his walk — his whole aspect — as if , instead of having come out through the front gate , he had squeezed through a secret hole in the fence . |
| 9 | He was particularly anxious to return to the States before Mark left the company , as he simply could n't face the prospect of having to spell out to the Englishman the compensation terms and pension proposals which New York had worked out . |
| 10 | In the case of an indemnifier who is not a consumer , the question to be asked is whether , in the absence of the indemnity , the indemnitee would have been obliged at common law to compensate the indemnifier for the economic loss suffered as a result of having to pay out on the third party claim . |
| 11 | Mr Banham accused Conservative MPs of failing to wake up to the issue , and of being ‘ intellectually absent by command of the whips . |
| 12 | He accused them of failing to face up to the implications of the voters ' choice should this happen , and of preferring to hide from the truth . |
| 13 | However , much of the hostility aroused by the subcommittee 's report appeared to be directed towards the United Kingdom government , which was widely accused of failing to stand up to the Chinese over Hong Kong 's future . |
| 14 | It amounts to a call for a revolution in ways of thinking to break out of the constraints that a falsely mechanistic interpretation of science has imposed on ourselves and our world . |
| 15 | Not to speak of trying to keep up with the other three murder investigations I 'm in charge of . |
| 16 | A similar exercise which will only work with a low handicap golfer is one of trying to stay back on the right side a little longer , and to be slightly flat-footed with the right foot through impact . |
| 17 | One minute he was full of longing to get on with the things that swam into his mind : sorting his stamps , cleaning his sports gear , starting his diary , writing his play . |
| 18 | The guidelines for interviewing laid down in the Market Research Society Code of Conduct should be adopted where relevant . |
| 19 | Like getting wrapped up in the Masai , getting wrapped up in Indirect Rule was not inherently a passive occupation ; it seems in retrospect extraordinary that something to which so much energy was in fact devoted should ever have been perceived as a sign of imperial decrepitude . |
| 20 | It was all she could do to scramble behind trying to keep up with the long , impatient strides . |
| 21 | You said something — about getting caught up in the action — |
| 22 | ‘ I decided I was fed up with having to go out on the road all the time in order to pay a mortgage on a house I never spent any time in ! ’ he told me . |
| 23 | The chief inspector disliked his arrogant manner , his jocularity at her expense , particularly when the only weapon she had was bluff and she was vulnerable for having pressed on with the case against Spittals ' opposition . |
| 24 | The blame was placed squarely on the United States for having gone back on the Moscow agreement and on the basis worked out by Marshall and Molotov for renewing the meetings of the Joint Commission . |
| 25 | The 28-year-old graduate from Bristol University was fined at the end of last season for failing to turn up for the team coach travelling to the FA Cup final after discovering he had been dropped in favour of the fit-again Bruce Grobbelaar . |
| 26 | McGrath , returning after being forgiven for failing to turn up for the Irish trek to Albania two weeks ago , rewarded Jack Charlton 's faith in him with a goal and a swagger as though he had never been away . |
| 27 | ‘ I have nearly been killed through having to walk on to the road to see whether it is clear , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Authorship is identity in the textual sphere , and hence gay people , like all marginal groups , have , at present , a political stake in wanting to hold on to the Author despite her/his expulsion from prevailing postmodernist theories . |
| 29 | There are many difficulties in getting supplies through to the zones and priority is given to medicines , not to contraceptives , Campesina combatants are generally opposed to using contraceptives for religious reasons and while women from urban areas may wish to adopt some form of birth control , it is not always available : |
| 30 | There is little point in getting worked up about the way different people use words ( although in my nonprofessional life I am quite prepared to get worked up about people who boil lobsters alive ) . |