Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The twist to the story came when the old man was found to be a carrier of the very germs that he blamed the coloured people for bringing into the country . |
| 2 | The practitioner is responsible for bringing to the process a wide range of knowledge and theoretical perspectives about the kinds of needs and risks which older people may face , and the ways in which these are mediated by gender , race , class , life history , and circumstances of a person 's life . |
| 3 | Blue Arrow plc , a UK employment agency which Mr Reed was responsible for bringing to the bank in 1985 , was seen as a valuable addition . |
| 4 | Er facilities er exist for parking and so on and the only thing is , er I 'm talking about catering in the sense of a Saturday whether it 's here or there . |
| 5 | Erm , and it 's quite an early start so it 's , it just makes it such a late night to for eating by the time you 've come out the cinema it 's erm |
| 6 | You many have thought , like me , that serving hatches went out when the craze for eating in the kitchen came back into fashion . |
| 7 | ‘ We might go and have lunch , ’ Anthony said to Maud , looking at the preparations for eating in the compartment — napkins tucked into shirt collars , laps spread with paper bags . |
| 8 | The shrimps are too small for eating in the summer , but the net will capture lots of other small fish including the sandy coloured gobies , juvenile flatfish , dragnets , the Lesser Weever with venomous spines , pipefish , rockling ; as well as hermit crabs , little cuttlefish , and larvae of all sorts . |
| 9 | Their hospitality would doubtless have extended to me sampling the food in each of the three messes — but not wanting to risk either myself or the computer 's Carafe programme developing hiccups , I enjoyed visiting each mess and settled for eating in the Sergeant 's Mess . |
| 10 | Every few months Hugh de Tracy would mutter about seeing to the building of a proper barbican over the postern . |
| 11 | Therefore , although it was a little slower in use , no time was lost in the field through frequent breaks for sharpening with the rub-stone as were needed with both swap-hook and scythe . |
| 12 | There was widespread media criticism of the government for capitulating to the drug traffickers , but Gaviria denied that he had entered into negotiations or made any prior deal with Escobar as part of a policy to defuse the costly and violent " drug war " gripping the country . |
| 13 | Walling may have one or two faces , so a one-face finish may not be suitable for using as the edge of a tread instead of a paving slab , but would be for use underneath the slab . |
| 14 | Those with a mushroom-style head are intended to cast the beam downwards on to the flower beds below , others with a pencilshaped lamp are suitable for using along the edge of a path or for illuminating an area of border . |
| 15 | Using woven fabrics for household articles seems appropriate because many of the samples when they are finished have the right feel and substance for using in the home . |
| 16 | And your telephone then and then you go to this is got ta to go for the page |
| 17 | During the 1967 San Francisco Film Festival , Crawford met Gene Kelly , the song-and-dance maestro who had himself been a hit on the Broadway stage before starring in film musicals such as Singing In the Rain . |
| 18 | If the view is taken that ‘ civil disputes are a matter of private concern of the parties involved , and may even be regarded as their private property … and that the parties are themselves the best judges of how to pursue and serve their own interests in the conduct and control of their respective cases , free from the directions of or intervention by the court , ’ forms of alternative dispute resolution must be considered as worth pursuing for the control that is provided to the parties over their dispute . |
| 19 | An infant uses the mouth as the first organ from which pleasure can be derived , through sucking at the breast and imbibing the warm milk . |
| 20 | Is power disguised as stemming from the organisation rather than management at Burger King ? |
| 21 | At that time women were still employed underground in Cumberland filling the baskets as well as at surface tasks , while the wives of Staffordshire pitmen were said seldom to " do more than attend to the necessary calls of the Family " except for helping with the harvest . |
| 22 | erm I enlisted in the Air Force December thirty nine , and I had six and a half years taken out of my life for helping with the war effort , and hopefully my sons and my grandsons will not have to go into another war . |
| 23 | A TEENAGE IRA girl was jailed for 10 years yesterday for plotting to kill troops — while her accomplice was given life for helping in the murder of a businessman . |
| 24 | Tap D for Delete in the Command Menu ( not Del for Delete on the keyboard , and not Transfer Delete in the Command Area ! ) |
| 25 | Tap D for Delete in the Command Menu ( not Del for Delete on the keyboard , and not Transfer Delete in the Command Area ! ) |
| 26 | You can also transfer ( upload ) stitch patterns from the knitting machine to DesignaKnit ; they can then be converted to the correct format for editing within the colour pattern section and integrating with your garment shapes . |
| 27 | This is her idea for impressing on the audience how the powerless feel . |
| 28 | About 1,200 motorists were also stopped for speeding in the crackdown . |
| 29 | ( marketing and PR officer ) is responsible for assisting with the implementation of marketing and PR strategy , organising exhibitions and events such as conferences or seminars that may be arranged , the annual lunch and any public receptions planned from year to year . |
| 30 | The use of syntactic information for assisting in the selection of the correct word candidates in an automatic text recognition system has been investigated . |