Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The three of them rode to the bank of the river , dismounted , then slipped quickly through the underbrush . |
| 32 | ‘ Handiman made everyone think about the handicapped person in their family that it 's easy to deny , ’ says Damon , who may have found the character 's roots in his own childhood club foot . |
| 33 | Inside , maids in black took coats for tickets , and told everyone to go through the lounge as Mrs Coley was receiving in the pool area . |
| 34 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
| 35 | Why is it everyone goes for the most difficult car parking spot ? |
| 36 | Everyone goes to the concerts . |
| 37 | Micro Focus plc this week is supposed to announce a new client/server OLTP Transaction System that will let customers emulate CICS and help them migrate from the mainframe to a client/server environment . |
| 38 | And forced as she was by circumstances to bring her own dirty and vicious brood to work with her , she took a great pleasure in letting them loose on the two youngest Milligans , deliberately ignoring their torments and teases . |
| 39 | What good is an educational system which fools youngsters into thinking they are much cleverer than they really are and lets them loose on the working world ( not that there 's much work there ) with worthless qualifications ? |
| 40 | But , who let them loose in the launderette |
| 41 | They talked nonsense until there was sufficient calm in the stalls and circle to allow them to continue with the lines as written in the script . |
| 42 | The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits . |
| 43 | They were both trying to persuade me to continue with the radiotherapy and drugs . ’ |
| 44 | I , I er , you would not expect me to continue with the euphoria which you were trying to create earlier , and er , I have to say that I suppose that you would n't er , be proposing any different budget to this would you , in the circumstances that you 've got . |
| 45 | ‘ But both Graham and I knew it was impractical for me to continue in the job and remain as manager of Exeter . ’ |
| 46 | Everyone argued about the jury . |
| 47 | And I 've nothing to report on the buses or trains . |
| 48 | And Hill added : ‘ There is nothing to report to the FA as far as I am concerned . |
| 49 | This level of provision represents a very substantial commitment of resources to the enterprise bodies and it should be sufficient to enable them to carry through the wide range of tasks expected of them and to build on their excellent first year of operation . |
| 50 | I know nothing about radio — but I do n't need to , I realize , because , even while I watch , the waves are softly withdrawing from the wavebands , as from a beach at low tide on a calm summer 's afternoon , leaving me gazing through the darkness of my son 's bedroom at three shirts , two of them size 35 long , one of them size 32 medium . |
| 51 | But some , such as the Portuguese man-of-war ( Physalia ) and the velella , have sacs full of gas , which enable them to float on the surface , trailing their poisonous tentacles to catch fish that come to browse in the surface water . |
| 52 | In a pond the temperature variations which occur from day to night will affect the buoyancy of the fish 's swimbladders , causing them to float to the water surface or sink to the bottom . |
| 53 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 54 | This caused them to sink into the ground until the crossbar was only two inches above the grass . |
| 55 | I have heard from Prudential Property Services with details of your proposed purchase of the above property for £52,000 subject to Contract and I expect that I shall be receiving the draft Contract from the vendor 's solicitors in the course of the next post but perhaps you will kindly telephone me and let me know whether you wish me to proceed with the Preliminary Enquiries arising thereon and the Local search with the East Herts District Council . |
| 56 | The fact that this stack is merely structured from stone , the result of a well understood physical sequence , does nothing to detract from the Old Man 's personal aura . |
| 57 | This mixture of sizes did nothing to detract from the overall beauty of the place ; rather they gave interest , drawing the eye to different shapes and heights . |
| 58 | The slight pallor beneath his tan and the white bandage high on his left arm did nothing to detract from the air of menace about him . |
| 59 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 60 | So a Court would consist of three Magistrates , one of whom sits in the centre and acts as Chairman |