Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Even more , she had been quite ready to apologize for the public exhibition she had made of herself , and to ask his forgiveness . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The demonstrators want Britain to apologize for the executions of nine men who fought for the island 's independence in the fifties . |
| 20 | Both had much to win and to lose through the action . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Here are some pointers on how to go about the writing task : 1 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 24 | What 's , how , how 're you going to go about the problems , sort of talk through the stages . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He had only a few hundred yards to go as the house he was planning to visit was also in the Vomero but he did not wish to arrive with perspiration on his forehead or dust on his shoes . |
| 28 | Are there works which you had hoped to borrow for the exhibition but which are not being made available to you ? |
| 29 | In the case of a small pay cut , for example , we have seen that it is sometimes safer to sue for the amount that you have lost , rather than give up your job . |
| 30 | Judges initially were not amenable and denied sellers certain rights both to repossession and to sue for the deficiency . |