Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I push through the dancers towards Tamsin , the boy sinks helpless to the deck . |
| 2 | oh and I 've made a big rug at the centre , which I shall have home before Christmas , a big woollen rug I 've made , yes so , oh it 's a beautiful rug it 's with those er silver thing you push through the hole on the canvas |
| 3 | The conventional notion of literary ‘ tradition ’ does , it is true , compensate for the lack of an historical overview , but because it implies a common pool of resources repeatedly drawn on by a succession of different writers , it is profoundly antithetical to Formalism and its key principle of defamiliarization . |
| 4 | A successful team blends these different roles together so that the strengths of one compensate for the weaknesses of another . |
| 5 | It is thought that this might give relief to the husband for capital gains tax for the period from when the settlement is established ( ie the court order or when the agreement between the parties was finalised ) until its termination , but the application of this section to such a situation is not wholly clear . |
| 6 | Returning now to that day in 1811 , the hair-raising events of those next few hours graphically unfold through the words of the voyagers themselves , taken from a contemporary account in The Gentleman 's Magazine : |
| 7 | My right hon. Friend knows that Opposition parties constantly carp about the level of pensions in Britain . |
| 8 | If the match at the County Ground is anywhere near as fast and lose as the game at London Road , then the Swindon fans are in for a thriller . |
| 9 | Thus , Palmer and Frank ( 1988 ) distinguish between the interpretation of a man-made image ( whose meaning is to be reconstructed ) , and a ‘ natural ’ image ( whose meaning has to be extracted and standardized with belief systems ) . |
| 10 | According to Alexander Henderson , in The History of Ancient Wines ( 1824 ) , the ninth century saw the beginning of a distinction between the various wines of Champagne ; references henceforth distinguish between the wines of the Vallée de la Marne and those of the Montagne de Reims . |
| 11 | They distinguish between the function of language as imparting meaning , ‘ making statements which can be assigned a set of truth conditions ’ ( ibid. ) , and its function of regulating and maintaining social or interpersonal relations between people . |
| 12 | Distinguish between the demand for bank lending and the demand for money . |
| 13 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 14 | The happy medium mean between the extremes of hot and cold furnishes to the chaste and sober eye all that can be wished for . ’ |
| 15 | They were probably saved from an early Walesa push for the presidency by the recent row with West Germany 's Mr Helmut Kohl over the permanence of Poland 's western border . |
| 16 | They are both over 450 yards and their design , as they curve through the protection of the heavy trees with a scattering of bunkers on the angles of the fairways , induces tremors in even the most hardened competitors . |
| 17 | Whatever the rapture of first love and the obsessiveness of courtship ( sweet old fashioned word ) and marriage , it is a class act which can retain that rapture through the rigours of parenthood , child care and mortgage repayment . |
| 18 | Since many of the evangelicals shared Billy Graham 's opinions and valued his methods and saw the good which he did , his article stirred wrath among them and fear about the Bishop of Durham becoming the Archbishop of York . |
| 19 | Fear about the impact of Ecstasy on health is growing . |
| 20 | It follows that ‘ those sensations must be all that we can , at bottom , mean by their attributes ; and the distinction which we verbally make between the properties of things and the sensations we receive from them , must originate in the convenience of discourse rather than in the nature of what is signified by the terms ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ You who so often preach about the catholicity of the Anglican Church , and believe it too . ’ |
| 22 | The craftsmen , and we shall always need them , combine through the use of the whole range of human skills such extra elements as proportion , difference , originality , and the ability to work with the grain or the particular unique characteristics of the materials they work with . |
| 23 | Regret for the loss of the use of force against those who reneged on their promise to pay later may still be harboured by some in secret , but no longer publicly . |
| 24 | National styles in music can be powerful , especially when the listeners of one nation are presented with music so powerfully impressed with what they perceive as the style of another . |
| 25 | It has shaped those fashions , sounds and images young people around the world perceive as the essence of being British . |
| 26 | I always fear for the fingers of the Portuguese works who feed these strips through the punching machines that make the corks , deftly guiding faults in the strip away from the cutter . |
| 27 | To use another metaphor , if the world of education becomes a jungle of market forces , I fear for the survival of children with special needs . |
| 28 | If this does not happen , I fear for the future of this denomination which I love and to which I am loyal . |
| 29 | Conservationists and locals fear for the future of the island and a trust has been set up to raise money to buy it for the nation . |
| 30 | I ca n't afford to fight this in the American courts and I genuinely fear for the safety of my children . ’ |