Example sentences of "[vb base] to [pron] in the " in BNC.

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1 It 's what they all say to me in the end .
2 We listen to them in the car .
3 The issue is even more complicated in the world of sound recording , because we can not pick up a record and listen to it in the same way that we can pick up a book and read it .
4 If you speak to someone in the department ask it you can have their name in case you need to telephone again ;
5 By their day-to-day actions , children can also affect the way in which their parents react to them in the most powerful and direct manner .
6 I notice I refer to him in the past tense .
7 We refer to everything in the plane exterior to 1.5kpc as the ‘ disk ’ , and consider all material inside 1.5kpc , whether or not it lies in the plane , to be part of the bulge .
8 I appeal to everybody in the Annadale flats to stand together against these thugs there can be no justification for this murder . ’
9 The police talk to everybody in the hope that by hit and miss they might pick up something .
10 Even when doubled the Funds will take up only a quarter of the EC budget and will approximately amount to something in the order of 4 per cent of the total estimated aggregate gains from completing the SEM .
11 Whether developments in Europe since the Second World War have wrought the sort of constitutional change brought about by the emergence of the Dominions after the First World War , raises exactly this question and we turn to it in the next chapter .
12 When 1911 came I often marvel to myself in the name of Heaven how it was done " .
13 Anny Evason 's atmospheric evocation of the Piazza del Erbe , with its salamis , live chickens , fruit barrow and cafe tables , is spectacularly wrecked as the young bloods go to it in the first of Terry King 's convincing fights .
14 I write to you in the full possession of my faculties and not as a madman but as the brother you know .
15 Parents working at all levels in businesses can begin to establish empathy with the school work of their children and contribute to it in the workplace , or the school or at home .
16 She and the island have become one ; its hopes come to her in the wind bending the palm fronds on the beach , making the halyards sing against the masts in the bay , in the tree frogs ' piping , the rattle of the fleshy leaves of the saman .
17 As Reyburn observes : ‘ Sensitive females know it is no good announcing ‘ Excuse me a minute , I 'll see if the scones are done ’ merely to have the sound of the flushing toilet proclaim to everybody in the house , ‘ I have been to the loo ’ . ’
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