Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not reasons for the impulses but causes that hark back to the primitive responses that we share with many animals ; yet qualified by noting that we , unlike dumb brutes , can reflect upon our impulses and resist them if we so decide , as happened in my example . |
| 2 | Descend and head back into the forest going south-west then south to post 21 . |
| 3 | So at baptism , the new Christian would be immersed and go down into the river or the immersion font in Burmese skirt and coat , and on emerging from the water be clothed with the three garments of a Burmese monk , only white in colour instead of saffron , this signing acceptance as a mature member of the religious community and the cleansing from sin . |
| 4 | The baby has gone past the sell-by date given by the hospital , but there is not a lot I can do except dig in on the front-line . |
| 5 | There seemed nothing to be done except carry on with the dinner , but in the afternoon Anne went to see Sarah . |
| 6 | Anyway , what I really want to talk about is engineering for our future in a way because I mean most of you er , listen to the doom and gloom and all the ni , all the er kind of statistics we 've seen that come out of the Engineering Prize Federation , the C B I , I wish somebody , for a change , would put a little bit of gloss on it instead of actually bringing up the statistics which show how badly we 're doing ! |
| 7 | Retired some years back to grow vegetables on an allotment , and sit and stare out of the window . ’ |
| 8 | All she wanted now was to get really stoned and lie back on the mattress thinking good thoughts . |
| 9 | He did not , as usual , read or stare out of the window or make tea or do any of the things Robert assumed one usually caught teachers doing in off-duty moments . |
| 10 | Then lie or sit down on the nearest piece of furniture , try to keep warm and wait calmly for help to arrive . |
| 11 | The boat skipper gives Kevin a choice — swim or struggle on in the bad weather and lose your money . |
| 12 | Experience of food poisoning outbreaks has shown that build up within the span of one working day of the type of bacteria that will cause major explosive outbreaks rarely occurs where hygiene practices are satisfactory . |
| 13 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 14 | Mr Pavlychko , a poet turned politician , knows enough of both trades to leave that answer up in the air . |
| 15 | The L1 migrate up the trachea , are swallowed and pass out in the faeces . |
| 16 | Sanger duty is particularly boring because there is nothing else to do but look out of the window , and since it is rarely done in pairs social interaction provides no compensation . |
| 17 | Where do you look for a girl who 's nothing to do but drift about for the daylight hours ? |
| 18 | I 'd rather die than go back out the way I was . |
| 19 | It is thought to be exploring how insurance risks compare and fit in with the other financial risks it already manages routinely for customers . |
| 20 | But our Key Person policy compensated us , which kept our backers and creditors happy , and eventually we managed to recruit new people , reorganise and get back on the rails again . ’ |
| 21 | It 's not got to court for sort of like , four or five weeks get adjourned or come up to the police station and then like get your hand slapped . |
| 22 | Florida is the shock of the new jutaposed with '40s and '50s kitsch and the magnificent turn-of-the-century beachfront resorts that date back to the days when the Northern grandees , steamer trunks and servants in tow , would descend by private rail to the exclusive enclaves of Sarasota , Palm Beach and Miami . |
| 23 | Giardia lives in the gut and produces microscopic hard-walled cysts that pass out of the body with the faeces . |
| 24 | When a strong concentration of sodium chloride is placed near to paramecium they turn and go off in the opposite direction . |
| 25 | I 'm not going to lose my head and try and rush out at the first chance . |
| 26 | Go and sit up at the table erm Christopher . |
| 27 | But when she had washed her hair and dressed in a new pair of designer jeans and a silk shirt that had been a Christmas present and which she 'd never worn before — it was n't to Eva 's house that she went but back down into the town , towards the theatre and the Franz Joseph . |
| 28 | If you include a Boss and Big Boss in your front rank this will reduce the number of vulnerable Goblins fighting and cut down on the number of casualties you suffer . |
| 29 | There are many lay people who share and live out of the same insight . |
| 30 | ‘ Or you 'll find this time that you will be court-martialled and end up in the gaol you were originally intended for . ’ |