Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when he had had the effrontery to go whining to the constable , attempting to get back the money for which he had , after all , sold his twisted little soul , no one in St Jude 's Street could remember seeing or hearing anything about the accident at all . |
| 2 | The makeshift bomb lobbed into an upstairs bedroom was packed with nuts , bolts and glass in an attempt to kill or maim anyone in the room . |
| 3 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 4 | The blastocyst will now implant or embed itself in the endometrium , losing its membrane . |
| 5 | Community Care Grants are to enable people to establish or maintain themselves in the community rather than having to be in hospitals , nursing homes and residential care homes etc . |
| 6 | Less practical is physical destruction like squashing or bashing them on the head . |
| 7 | You can even create subject profiles that guide you to the pages containing stories most relevant to yourself . |
| 8 | IT WAS a two-part induction process that dragged me into the brawling hostelry in the sky of NME Towers . |
| 9 | And it 's much easier to try and control it on the clutch . |
| 10 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 11 | He had practiced putting on his kitchen floor at home during the winter to try and prepare himself for the greens . |
| 12 | Had Furlanetto done his homework on the great singers of the past , simply in order to try and absorb something of the tradition in double-quick time ? |
| 13 | He cared enough about his loathsome , drunken and violent third wife , Mayo Methot , not to leave her until he knew she had gone to the furthest extremes to try and cure herself of the alcoholism that threatened to ruin both their lives . |
| 14 | They are given several balloons and the object is to try and hit them over the heads of the team opposite and onto the floor . |
| 15 | Cumberland also felt some anxiety about the security of Blair Castle , situated about eight miles [ 13 km ] north-west of Pitlochry , the ancestral home of Lord George Murray , who obtained permission from Prince Charles to try and regain it from the government forces occupying it , but his light guns proved ineffective against the castle 's 7-ft [ 2.1-m ] thick walls . |
| 16 | So will more than likely be off next week , but I do want to try and get something done with this and some of the other accounts , I want to try and get them out the way before I |
| 17 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |
| 18 | Roman caught her before she could fall and carried her to the small settee . |
| 19 | Except to note that now that the right honourable member for Chesterfield is publishing his former speeches as a video , it is rather a cheap operation to come and repeat them in the chamber er rather than putting them out er for public consumption there are places where he could repeat the kind of speeches just given , unfortunately the government is closing most of them down at the moment and putting the cut the inhabitants out in the community er but it had no relevance to the er the subject we 're dealing with today . |
| 20 | We got him to come and fix it before the first session . |
| 21 | Thank you all very much indeed and thank you particularly for making an effort to come and join us at the A G M , apart from the fact that it would be tedious in the extreme to look at an empty room , I do understand |
| 22 | We need some of the younger , newly retired to come and join us in the fight to restore the dignity and security that should be there for everyone in the autumn of their lives . |
| 23 | Yeah and my sister in law used to come M my brother 's wife used to come and help us with the cleaning at night . |
| 24 | So , if any of you would like to come and see us at the salon we will both be there and very happy to see and answer any of your questions . |
| 25 | the first year and the most you get out of them is they do n't even bother to come and see you in the corridor do , who went down ? |
| 26 | Have you someone who can assist and support you with the children ? |
| 27 | He stopped talking as Marshka entered and wheeled himself into the empty space at the table , at that end farthest , on the right-hand side , from the president . |
| 28 | The teddies were shouting , chivvying and bullying them off the pavement on to the road . |
| 29 | The Society 's slot at the Barbican Festival is at 2.15 p.m. on Sunday 28 May Do come — Dressed to work and support us in the ‘ Come and try it ’ session and cheer the NDT on . |
| 30 | The process was patented by Squire in 1875 , and Squire and Messel described and demonstrated it before the Chemical Society the following April . |