Example sentences of "the [vb mod] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then there 's a , a series of er oh and they add er er during the people 's governments or at or above the may in accordance with the local land agency set apart certain land bound to be nationalized and used for the establishment of experimental farms or one or more county 's or model state farms , so there 's provision for the creation of so a form of socialism over the countryside but it 's , it comes a long way down the list . |
| 2 | The second is an untidy surgical exposure , the more convincing and moving for its incompetence , of the first 's withheld human inwardness , while the first is a theological drama in which the must of ‘ a man absolutely must go somewhere ’ gets tortured on the rack of faith . |
| 3 | Lowering the must in temperature to 5°C encourages débourbage and the result is superior and quicker . |
| 4 | The should of slow labouring footsteps could be heard moving along the first-floor landing as the boy threw himself into the kitchen and slammed the door behind him . |
| 5 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 6 | The paradox is that this sudden , violent , essentially mindless process ( the could in the last line underlines the ‘ demoniac compulsion to which the divine bird himself is subject ’ ) is the cause of events of enormous , tragic magnitude for the human race : the birth of Helen and the Trojan war . |
| 7 | And er th they used to make some of the batteries up , the cells , the , the used to er I do n't know if you 've ever seen a cell in a battery , it 's usually made up of er wood er lead and wood . |
| 8 | Stand high up and big white globe , and the used to little got a little door . |
| 9 | Well it used to be , that 's where the , that 's where the used to be . |
| 10 | had to have one for a short while , she was quite young and I , we 'd only just moved here and I took her to the vet the used to be in Sandhurst , they said it was a bee sting , they put purple stuff on it |
| 11 | A furniture shop of some sort there where the used to be the Spar shop I think , many years ago was n't it like a have n't been there for , probably about since , Morris 's day you see , and that service station . |
| 12 | Our studies point strongly to the need of adopted children ( and all separated children in long-term arrangements ) to feel legally secure to enable them to develop a sense of belonging to their psychological family ( Triseliotis , 1983 ; Triseliotis and Russell , 1984 ; Triseliotis and Hill , 1987 ) . |
| 13 | COMPUTERVISION CHIEF SHIELDS HAS TO CARRY THE CAN FOR POOR PERFORMANCE |
| 14 | Carry the Can for BioAlert '89 |