Example sentences of "[verb] [n mass] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly Whiteson is suspicious that Duran may not have shed 30lb to get down to the middleweight limit for Leonard by wholly natural methods . |
| 2 | We should not just trust people to get on with the task of caring for vulnerable children . |
| 3 | THE Government 's scheme to encourage people to contract out of the state earnings related pension scheme ( SERPS ) via personal pensions has produced results way beyond expectations . |
| 4 | urge people to press on with the task in hand especially when they have second thoughts |
| 5 | Robert had the strong impression that they viewed unwanted spectators in the same spirit in which the ancient Greeks received people barging in on the Eleusinian mysteries . |
| 6 | Conventionally , we would expect people to borrow up to the point where the utility gained from the last pound borrowed is just equal to the cost of borrowing it . |
| 7 | Now Gwynedd Health Authority 's health promotion adviser , Melfyn Thomas , is urging people to face up to the challenge of accepting people affected by HIV and Aids . |
| 8 | ‘ A combination of the abolition of special car tax and lower interest rates should see people coming back to the showrooms , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 9 | UI reportedly told staff laid off in the last two weeks that it was short of funds , attributing the situation to an accounting error . |
| 10 | Although flying fish leap out of the water they do not porpoise but glide , using their pectoral fins as aerodynamic surfaces . |
| 11 | We get people hanging around outside the flat . |
| 12 | For several weeks Iranian media have been exhorting people to turn out for the demonstration . |
| 13 | Fred White and Sandy , the friend he had agreed to meet here , sat on the shore and watched people splashing about in the water . |
| 14 | They 're asking people to look out for the substances which were in a large grey plastic box . |
| 15 | Lots of chemists have made very good chartered accountants , for example , but I would like to see very many more — let's say science trained people going out into the professions , particularly into politics . |
| 16 | I shrank back into the shadows of the alley and saw people passing by on the sidewalk . |
| 17 | I saw people springing up from the ground and letting down ropes out of the sky , boarding red buses , jabbering in English . |
| 18 | I saw people running down from the house , I heard some shots , but that was all . |
| 19 | This kind of planting can be dull in summer , so Jenny and Michael planted clematis to sprawl over from the border behind , the rich colouring of C. viticella ‘ Etoile Violette ’ contrasting with the dull bronze conifers . |
| 20 | I saw Flora coming on to the terrace . |
| 21 | The thing is this : when you play a note on any guitar , you create an overtone series , and those overtone series come about through the string vibrating in properly divided lengths . |
| 22 | Sandblasting of the Great Slab area at Stanage to remove graffiti painted on over the August bank holiday has had the beneficial side effect of totally cleaning the afflicted area of chalk and rubber marks , and has also increased the friction . |
| 23 | I mean we 're not exactly trying to get people to drop in off the street , are we ? |
| 24 | You do n't often get people ringing up in the middle of the night to say they 've found a body in the bath . |
| 25 | ‘ A couple of weeks in New Zealand will get people tuned in to the type of rugby we want to play ’ — PHILLIP DANAHER ( Ireland captain ) after the debacle in Paris . |
| 26 | There has been increasing anguish among law-abiding poll tax payers who are being surcharged £19 to make up for the shortfall caused by uncollected tax . |
| 27 | As AT&T 's Bob Kavner , soon to be USL 's erstwhile chairman , says Novell 's purchase takes the emotions out , leaving people to get on to the real issues . |
| 28 | Devlin said , ‘ I suppose that thing makes people get out of the way fast ? ’ |
| 29 | I would like to wake up in half an hour and see people passing by in the street . |
| 30 | He wanted people to get on with the urgent business of living the good life set out in the Eightfold Path , and not to waste time or energy in speculation and debate . |