Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left penniless when her husband dropped dead suddenly one Monday morning as he was putting his horse between the shafts to go to the country on his weekly door-to-door round , her pride had not allowed her to accept for long the charity of the community 's Board of Guardians . |
| 2 | To recommend what , in general terms , pupils need to know about how the English language works and in consequence what they should have been taught , and be expected to understand , on this score , at ages 7 , 11 and 16 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Many parents of premature babies and people with disabilities must be horrified at this report which seeks to cheapen their lives by measuring their value solely in terms of the money it costs to provide for even the most basic human rights such as education . ’ |
| 4 | One of the things that has been hardest for me to deal with in coaching is runners who want to train for both the marathon and the mile at the same time . |
| 5 | Erm during the course of the footings and flooring taking place , bricks have been ordered to come in where the walls are being built together with the joinery . |
| 6 | So you think that it would be inappropriate to say look this is a particular place set aside , a lot of people will use this and they do n't want to come in here the majority do n't want to come in and breathe cigarette smoke , so do n't smoke . |
| 7 | Any structural change — that is one which changes the rules of the game on the basis of which bargaining takes place — would have to come from outside the system . |
| 8 | And Hammam added : ‘ Any aid for Vinnie has got to come from outside the club . |
| 9 | All MPhil and PhD students normally have two supervisors and it is common for one of these to come from outside the department . |
| 10 | Then a noise seemed to come from inside the walls of the house . |
| 11 | George helped the Palace to gain promotion from Division Four in his first season at Selhurst Park , during which he made full appearances for us , and he continued as a first-team regular under Dick Graham , to become one of only two men to appear in both the 1961 and 1964 promotion sides . |
| 12 | She pressed a hand to her bosom to try to still the wild fluttering of her heart . |
| 13 | Oldham worked diligently to put Arsenal under maximum pressure from the start , and both O'Leary and Dixon had anxious moments as they strove to adjust to both the home attack and the artificial turf . |
| 14 | ‘ What the counsellor does is to concentrate on how the client feels about the incidents or facts he is reporting rather than on the facts themselves , and then to respond to what appears to be the most significant part of each complex sequence … |
| 15 | Some latitude can be allowed to serious critics who write for periodicals which go to press a long time before a show is on view ; these critics will not be able to comment on how the exhibition actually looks , as their articles will have been written before the show 's installation . |
| 16 | There is , furthermore , at least some limited evidence to suggest that most commercials do not need to be as long as they are in order to communicate at least the more fundamental elements of their message . |
| 17 | And desire and dedication are easier to come by when the alternative is a one-way ticket back to the ghetto . |
| 18 | The national debate concerning Canada 's constitutional future — particularly Quebec 's role within it — which had been under way since the collapse in June 1990 of the Meech Lake Accord [ see pp. 37519-20 ] , continued in June but showed some evidence of a greater willingness to compromise by both the separatist French minority and the English-speaking majority . |
| 19 | THE school holiday are drawing to a close so take advantage of an offer from Red Funnel ferries and give the kids something to talk about when the new term starts by popping across to the Isle of Wight . |
| 20 | By detecting heat this can provide a picture that would be impossible to detect with just the human eye . |
| 21 | By the late autumn of 1944 , in joint operations with the German forces , the Cossacks had cleared the Italian partisans out of their area , which they continued to garrison until nearly the end of the war . |
| 22 | This is not the place to elaborate upon why the educational system we have inherited can be described as men 's education or why , even in areas like adult and community education in which women outnumber men as students , and are employed in considerable numbers as part-time tutors and volunteers , the structures in which we operate are so effectively well grounded in male power and male values as to appear inevitable . |
| 23 | It was he who had to listen to how the clients could never get through on the telephone , how they were chased by debt collectors even when they had paid , how they could not find up to the minute share prices , etc . |
| 24 | It would be fascinating to speculate on why the cost of living in inner London is so high . |
| 25 | She said yesterday that it was not profitable for the new trust members to speculate on why the Scottish Office had not appointed a member of the medical school . |
| 26 | It is fascinating to speculate on how the BDDA would have developed with Maginn as President and people like Ernest Abraham active within its ranks . |
| 27 | BR has rightly refused to speculate on how the animals came to be on the line in the first place . |
| 28 | However , Lord Redesdale thought that if the Government ever wanted the larger site , ‘ the truest economy would be to purchase at once the ground about Charles Street . |
| 29 | Congress works by building coalitions ; to aim at just the ghetto poor — wholly urban and overwhelmingly black — would attract too narrow a coalition . |
| 30 | Thank goodness a legal team is to look into how the charges are made up . |