Example sentences of "[Wh det] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once we 'd found this little gem — and other setup options — we managed to coax a wonderfully fast high resolution screen upon which to work out of the system . |
| 2 | The winding-up petition comes after the Court of Appeal last week gave Chelsea a deadline of seven days in which to come up with the money . |
| 3 | Those of you who are still concerned about our results should take comfort in the fact that these are early days and with the season barely three-quarters over we still have ten games remaining in which to pull away from the bottom . |
| 4 | Unfortunately there was so little height in which to pull out of the dive , and the aircraft was going so fast , that gross overloading of the wing structure was absolutely inevitable . |
| 5 | The election result has given the Conservatives five years in which to press ahead with the changes . |
| 6 | Prior to 1916–17 , prior to the crisis brought about by the demise of his father , the process of schooling was merely an extension of family life , a childhood means of emulating a successful father , the arena in which to live up to the expectations of a demanding father-figure . |
| 7 | I did not really know what to expect away from the National Health Service and my mum , and so , armed with a small library of books and the good wishes of a Jamaican midwife at Homerton hospital , I just hoped for the best . |
| 8 | After breakfast of tea without milk and rolls with cheese and marmalade , I wrote myself reminders of what to discuss today at the ‘ Keep Trying ’ bakery , collected useful handouts and a picnic lunch , fetched the bike from its tiny sleeping house , pumped up the back tyre and I was off . |
| 9 | This process teaches the child what to do instead of the tantrum — that is , it teaches him or her a socially acceptable behaviour . |
| 10 | and then you told me what to put in on the plated through and stuff ! |