Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 2 | if we if we get it off the ground at all it may be we 'd want to carry it over till the Autumn and start the new season with it . |
| 3 | But then , from what I hear , that 's overrun with bairns ; they 've stopped gathering them in from the streets . |
| 4 | I 'm here for one reason — to do a job , and I mean to carry it through to the best of my ability , with or without your approval . |
| 5 | The talk was recorded by Russell Mulford and we intend to write it up for the museum . |
| 6 | There are outright racists holding Tory membership cards and I want to see them out of the party . ’ |
| 7 | Do , above all , make time to talk to your son or daughter — particularly if they want to sound you out on the subject . |
| 8 | There can be emergency situations , for instance if your dog cuts its paw or is bitten by a poisonous snake , when you will need to carry it back to the vehicle or home . |
| 9 | " You helped stop me getting the directorship , now you want to drive me out of the Lab . " |
| 10 | Thomas Cook said the merger would create an effective duopoly and tour operators would find themselves ‘ subject to debilitating price wars funded by the dominant position of the duopoly and designed to drive them out of the industry ’ . |
| 11 | So now you want to unload her on to the wretched Miss Plimsoll in the top form where she will cause even more chaos ? ’ |
| 12 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
| 13 | At a signal from Sybil , Rachel helped to coax them out of the water and into the changing-rooms where David was helping Danny to dress . |
| 14 | Oxford United are facing their own big challenge … four defeats in a row has dropped them back into the bottom half of the table … last home win was this one against Millwall … tomorrow they should … they must dish out the same treatment to struggling Southend |
| 15 | Members of a Cardiff ladies ' rowing club tried to pull her out of the mud , but found the current was too fast , and the bitch ( yes , she is called Eric ! ) , too heavy . |
| 16 | Dynamius tried to lock them out of the city , but he was tricked by Gundulf . |
| 17 | Overlooking the causal nature of meaning with respect to usage leads here to obvious circularity within the formal framework however : to is first defined as necessary to support a clausal complement with no discussion of the data which contradict this postulate ( cf She helped lift him out of the bed ; You 've missed things . |
| 18 | Poppy dissolved into a quivering heap when staff tried to lead her out of the cage , so they suggested that I tried . |
| 19 | They tried pushing it back into the hole but the force of the water was too great . |
| 20 | finally only one of junior teams has made it through to the third round of the cup … |
| 21 | She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her . |
| 22 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 23 | ‘ I tried to play it down in the report . ’ |
| 24 | because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people . |
| 25 | Four weeks of being cooped up with Flute had taught Arthur that Ubu Roi was the most seminal possible thing about funniness , and if it was a book he was prepared to try getting it out of the public library one day . |
| 26 | Nero sends his luv and wants to put you in for the chariot racing next time . |
| 27 | ‘ How did that kind of line get him on to the insulin project ? ’ |
| 28 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 29 | He tried to draw her back into the circle of his arms . |
| 30 | ‘ She tried kicking me out of the classroom . |