Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they have to make a choice : should they stay Japanese , or try to blend in with the locals ? |
| 2 | Those who foresaw the inevitability of this could take one of three ways out : commit suicide like the Itelmens ; resist and fight like the Chukchis ; or learn to get along with the newcomers . |
| 3 | In Chapters 5 and 6 we counted only those paths which spanned the entire utterance , anchoring the beginning of the search at the left-hand end and ignoring all paths that failed to match through to the right-hand end . |
| 4 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
| 5 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 6 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 7 | Banks that want to cash in on the consolidation of American banking now under way may also need to rid themselves of property . |
| 8 | Many of the changes that helped to bring about in the 1970s a new , more fragmented and more intractable congress would have happened irrespective of the misdemeanours of the Nixon administration . |
| 9 | The country was smaller than Wales , only one fortieth the size of California ; the ridge-line of mountain peaks provided Lebanon 's epic dimensions , plateaus of snow that seemed to reach up to the moon on winter nights . |
| 10 | the train had made its imperceptible departure and was rolling along again past the uninhabited infinity of rocks and lakes and conifers that seemed to march on to the end of the world . |
| 11 | No one who went to foreign language movies in the late Sixties will easily forget the extraordinary films that seemed to pour out of the state-owned studios of Czechoslavakia . |
| 12 | Although the level of the river had begun to drop , there was no corresponding decrease in the rain that continued to pour out of the skies . |
| 13 | ( 1986 ) and Borgman ( 1980 ) have found from their studies that older children especially are not willing to move to a new family if contact with their biological families is to be severed , though of course some children may be unable to voice their reluctance and tend to go along with the plans . |
| 14 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 15 | Barn owls roost during the day in the main tree in the picture , and tend to fly out between the bushes on the right . |
| 16 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 17 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 18 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 19 | Some winners in the past have been temperamental and failed to get up in the morning , but on the whole they go out as boys and come back as men . ’ |
| 20 | He ducked his head and made to step out into the sunshine . |
| 21 | If that image changes rapidly in time , as it would in a moving video sequence , for example , then a huge amount of digital information must be stored , transferred and processed to keep up with the requirements of delivering the motion video to the user . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought I might find them laughing at poor Daddy , ’ Rose said , allowing her own shock and fear to ease out in the nervous laughter , but Maggie 's face remained pale and serious . |
| 23 | He is n't allowed to play football and has to go back to the hospital for treatment . |
| 24 | ' 'Lo , Olga , ’ she said mechanically and moved to pass out of the same door ; but Mrs Stych wanted to show off her outfit . |
| 25 | ‘ Buryin' 'em at sea , ’ Walter persists , and he lifts the boathook and starts to stir around in the darkness beyond the terrace 's supporting pillars . |
| 26 | Penguin has a brand new series of ready Readers , a mixture of classic and modern stories at three levels and designed to lead in to the same publisher 's Simply Stories series . |
| 27 | ‘ Why , so that you can ease your own frustration and put the blame on me ? ’ she managed to shoot back , and tried to wriggle out of the bag , unsuccessfully . |
| 28 | I kissed her and held her and tried to get out of the house without saying goodbye to anyone . |
| 29 | The pilots were drunk and half-naked ; they got no help from the French girls , who simply screamed and tried to get out of the window . |
| 30 | If LEAs take their assigned task seriously , schools may begin to hanker for the days when they were given the tools and told to get on with the job . |