Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He prowls about the place , you know , on his own , and dreams of springing a dazzling surprise on the archaeological world some day .
2 Dorothy L. Sayers was writing her series of radio plays about the life of Christ called Man Born to Be King .
3 In other words , Lyons , a man who preferred and prefers to make his bargaining points through the media , was prepared to disrupt vital supplies , inflicting untold damage to the economy , without having had any direct discussion with us as to our plans or policies .
4 I say , ‘ A Ta-Ta-Ta-Ta … ’ and with that he drops his book and stomps off the tee .
5 This , of course , is a popular subject : it seems particularly attractive to the poet-turned-novelist because of the scope it offers for the tremulously sensitive probing of feelings .
6 ( Three separate negotiating teams were sent to each country tendering offers for the Urengoi gas pipeline , as a result of which the FRG , much to her surprise , found herself underbid at the end of the day . )
7 Computer Horizons Corp 's largest shareholder , CGI Informatique SA , itself under agreed offer from IBM Corp , is seeking to persuade other shareholders to overturn corporate policies that it thinks deter potential acquisition offers for the Mountain Lakes , New Jersey company .
8 This system , devised by Rentokil 's Research and Development department , offers for the first time a non-chemical , twenty-four hour detection and protection system .
9 Where it crosses through the X and Y axes .
10 The same applies to poor Mr Peter Brooke 's weekend remarks about the possibility of talking to Sinn Fein , if and when the IRA renounces the armed struggle .
11 Nevertheless , it is necessary to introduce some significant qualifying remarks about the current direction of policies and procedures in many authorities .
12 I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his kind remarks about the work of the Select Committee on European legislation made during the debate on 21 November .
13 A REGIONAL councillor , Terry Penny , was stripped of his membership of committees , sub-committees and working parties for three months by a meeting of the full council yesterday because of unruly behaviour and remarks about the Grampian convener , Bob Middleton , and the policy and resources chairman , Morag Morrell .
14 As she flies through the dark , or gallops on the horse of night , she is using different skills from those of our daytime world .
15 FLURRY OF SLURRY : The liquid dung flies through the air as revenge-seeking Dave launches his attack
16 He flies through the air with the greatest of ease , that daring young man is his … top secret experimental jet fighter ?
17 Subject : He flies through the air with greatest of ease
18 Subject : Re : He flies through the air with greatest of ease
19 The professional assessment is that the Mitre ball is heavier when it flies through the air and therefore lends itself to greater accuracy .
20 The same phrase had been translated and mordantly placed by Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio ; and so , when Hardy in these poems confronts the shade of his recently deceased and estranged wife Emma , not only does Aeneas in Aeneid 6 confront the reproachfully haughty ghost of Dido , but Dante 's pilgrim confronts for the first time the shade or apparition of his lost Beatrice .
21 Between the depth and master volume is the manual switch for the chorus , while the ‘ effect on ’ light sits between the rate and depth pots .
22 The traditional unit is a box that sits between the mains and the AC-in socket on your computer .
23 This action brings pin 3 of IC2 down to near zero and shuts off the drive to the switching transistor TR1 .
24 A special toughened , smoked glass lid with a ‘ Shut-Off Valve ’ that immediately shuts off the gas when the lid is closed .
25 Sliding the on/off plate back to on triggers the heating element and also shuts off the water inlet , preventing drips .
26 A wall — also red-ochre — shuts off the view , and is topped only by a violet and yellow-ochre hill .
27 That stone curtain will not descend which now shuts off the inmates of prison from the free world outside .
28 In addition , a cylinder thermostat can be strapped to the cylinder either to turn the boiler off or to operate a valve which shuts off the flow from the boiler to the cylinder when the stored water is hot enough .
29 Well this this of course erm shuts off the freezer that thing .
30 The head who goes about the job with tremendous enthusiasm and courtesy is likely to generate these attributes in other members of staff .
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