Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly not compared to the time he got caught messing around on the roof of Battersea Power Station trying to nick the lead . |
| 2 | A NURSE who had to learn to walk again after his neck was broken has hit out at the prison sentence given to his attacker . |
| 3 | More film roles are expected to come rolling in after the Oscars on 29 March , although Thompson claims she is a no-hoper for glamorous parts . |
| 4 | He tried to pull Caspar back down the slope . |
| 5 | I heard recently that Australia has come whooping out of the closet . |
| 6 | He said he 's pleased that Pakistan has decided to come back into the Commonwealth . |
| 7 | Hugh Jones has decided to step down from the chairman 's seat and the board has asked me if I 'd be willing to take over from him . ’ |
| 8 | Master of Ceremonies was Branch Chairman Malcolm Cork , Booth White , who has decided to stand down from the position . |
| 9 | But he has made standing up to the teaching unions his thing . |
| 10 | By eschewing the obvious solution of a differential dividend payment , the group has had to fall back on the option of endowing the chemicals company with additional cash by way of a rights issue from Zeneca . |
| 11 | ‘ They have already had a bit of excitement , while the rest of the country has had to put up with the phoney war . ’ |
| 12 | She has had to give in over the question of chrome : and the Foreign Minister , who never struck me as being too friendly towards us , failed to get away ( as he apparently hoped ) with letting armed German ships through the Straits . |
| 13 | IN a week when Mark McNulty has had to pull out of the Jersey European Airways Open with a bad back , Sam Torrance , the holder , has come to La Moye with his hands covered in blisters . |
| 14 | She said well I should imagine that 's what 's happened the paper work here has got muddled up with the other . |
| 15 | ‘ The region has got to come out in the open and to do more than what they have been doing before to make a real commitment to get rid of racism , particularly institutional racism which has been built up over many , many years . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The region has got to come out in the open and to do more than what they have been doing before to make a real commitment to get rid of racism , particularly institutional racism which has been built up over many , many years . ’ |
| 17 | They are both the product of good intentions : old-Etonian William Waldegrave has promised to speak up for the ‘ little guy ’ . |
| 18 | One legitimate reason for panning is to follow the action ; shots of beach football , for example , will need to pan to keep up with the play . |
| 19 | The FIVE NATIONS COMMITTEE has agreed to carry on with the successful recent experiment of having the referees ‘ wired ’ to the commentators ' headphones during games . |
| 20 | The higher , reasoning brain has handed control over to the instinctive brain . |
| 21 | The new breed of shareholders has yet to show its skills of actually trading shares for long term appreciation and has tended to sell out at the most lucrative time . |
| 22 | NOW , AN ANONYMOUS FEMALE MEMBER OF THE SAUDI ROYAL FAMILY HAS DARED TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT THE REALITY OF LIFE FOR WOMEN IN SAUDI ARABIA . |
| 23 | There is one ray of hope — one member of the rescue team , himself an experienced caver , is a Casualty consultant from Suffolk who has volunteered to go down with the party to provide immediate medical assistance to the injured man . |
| 24 | Angelica 's thinking that a bag of garbage has probably been carried along on the night swell and has become caught up amongst the pillars and the metal cross-tics ; there will always be somebody who 'll think that a couple of heavy stones and a drop out over the deepest part of the lake are an adequate way of disposing of all their empty cans and peelings and plate-scrapings . |
| 25 | Cos that Australian said er get many more ruddy red ants in here he said , we 'll need to start chipping in for the coffee ! |
| 26 | Around one hundred galleries are expected to have signed up by the closing date and attendance figures are expected to be around the usual 100,000 . |
| 27 | This may include avoiding facing up to the boss at work , avoiding going to a party or social occasion , and man- ; other situations . |
| 28 | But a car bomb is reported to have gone off in the Palestinian quarter of the city and a police station has been blown up ( the interior ministry says by an accidental explosion ) . |
| 29 | We have become busier and more efficient and the productive with each passing decade , and this has meant cutting down on the time spent on more mundane activities . |
| 30 | This speech has now completely turned the play around and has begun to lead on to the tragedy at the end of it , Brutus , the nobleman 's , death . |