Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rather tacky set , the lucklustre performances , the script from David Straun and Heather Williams that lurches from trite audience participation to over-the-head jokes ( would any primary-school child get the one about water privatisation ? ) , all did n't seem to matter as the company of four scampered around with their well-intentioned tale of how the white man destroyed the American Indians . |
| 2 | As much as he complains about having to frolic through the clichés of his life , he is quite happy to encourage it . |
| 3 | The Michelin guide to Perigord will reveal a castle either preserved or in ruins at each of these places , though one would need to go off the map to Mareuil-sur-Belle , as well as Vieux-Mareuil , to identify all the three donjons which Pound speaks of in that vicinity . |
| 4 | After I introduced the hemp earlier the fish seemed to go off the feed so I only introduced it for four or five casts . |
| 5 | Quite often when a pair have shown all the signs of wanting to breed in the community aquarium and they are then moved into a breeding tank , they suddenly seem to go off the idea , Their new home is strange to them , and the male will want to establish his territory , move the decor , and generally prepare the tank to his satisfaction . |
| 6 | This started the defendant to go off the rails . ’ |
| 7 | Also , it could give my guests time to go off the whole idea . |
| 8 | Before starting the long retreat we waited till dark for the sun to go off the slopes , for the stones and avalanche slopes to re-freeze , and possibly because the sight was too horrible to contemplate . |
| 9 | ‘ So , when the bombs start to go off the Western press will put it down to hard-liner elements still yearning for the days before Gorbachev arrived . |
| 10 | Escorts would require more overlap between shifts to allow staff to go off the ward . |
| 11 | But it 's also normal to go off the whole idea . |
| 12 | The heat was beginning to go off the streets and the shadows were creeping out from the walls . |
| 13 | I expect he 's had to go off the road . |
| 14 | We should not have to apologize for a vow of celibacy . |
| 15 | I am standing on platform eleven at London 's Liverpool Street station , listening to a British Rail Tannoy announcement , delivered as dispassionately and routinely as an abattoir attendant 's delivering a bolt through the skull of yet another helpless , terrified , steer : ‘ British Rail would like to apologize for the late running of the six-thirty to Lowestoft . |
| 16 | He delivered a strong attack on Paisley and sent his Minister for Home Affairs to the General Assembly to apologize for the demonstration and to promise that ‘ the Government will take all possible steps to put a recurrence of such indignities to the Head of this great church and his distinguished guests ’ . |
| 17 | Franco Ferrero wishes to apologize for the delay in sending out his Kayak & Mountain brochure but by now it should be on the way to all who requested it . |
| 18 | Even more , she had been quite ready to apologize for the public exhibition she had made of herself , and to ask his forgiveness . |
| 19 | Right , first of all I 'd like to apologize for the fact that Alan 's report and my report especially the first half , are very similar . |
| 20 | The demonstrators want Britain to apologize for the executions of nine men who fought for the island 's independence in the fifties . |
| 21 | Both had much to win and to lose through the action . |
| 22 | It is the older wife in a divorce case , who has no recent contact with the labour market or a poor earning capacity , who has sometimes much to lose through the ending of her marriage . |
| 23 | However the one thing that you must never do is to go between a cow and her calf and I made this mistake one morning and I had to take to my heals and run . |
| 24 | You must know how to go about a revision of this kind . |
| 25 | Here are some pointers on how to go about the writing task : 1 . |
| 26 | ‘ And if rumour were to go about the levels that the T'ang has lost something important and would clear a deck to find it ? |
| 27 | What 's , how , how 're you going to go about the problems , sort of talk through the stages . |
| 28 | Erm and I could see what they were after you know , an engineer has in his mind the plan and how to go about the thing and , and get it all done in a one-off situation . |
| 29 | He does n't know how to go about the work he has been put in charge of , and yet the successful solution of this case will be a great coup for him , politically . |
| 30 | The first time I went back to a lake where I used to go as a child . |