Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [pron] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual income of a kadi depended not only — or even principally — on his allowance , of course , but also on fees of various kinds ; and it may well be that if indeed the kadis of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa continued to receive allowances of only 300 akce a day down to Hezarfen 's time , they did so because their allowances represented a relatively insignificant proportion of the monies they actually received , so that raising them to match the importance of the kadiliks was not a matter of particular moment . |
| 2 | You know I think we 've gone over it long enough and leave it to see the er |
| 3 | Find out what the person in doubt is believing wrongly and help him to follow the logic of these presuppositions to their necessary conclusion . |
| 4 | Cut the bad stuff out and er put the new timber in and shape it to fit the existing door casing , architrave and |
| 5 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 6 | Stay with the man , watching him , waiting hour after hour , until eventually the man has to give in and say something to draw the whole thing to a close . |
| 7 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 8 | People may actually be right but that is not an excuse for smugness , and non-interest in what anybody else thinks except to knock them down and force them to acknowledge the superiority of one 's own views . |
| 9 | Gregory was unable to do so and counselled us to abandon the lesion method altogether . |
| 10 | However , by retaining his flexibility of action the Secretary of State has drafted the Bill so as to allow him to weaken the necessary protections . |
| 11 | In one way the Chancellor is already brought into relation with the administration of justice , though not so as to enable him to modify the law at his pleasure . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose we are right to send you and Jeremy out to get Tristram rather than leave him to take the full consequences ? ’ he said reflectively , as he loaded her and her possessions into his car and took the wheel . |
| 13 | Greenpeace in turn criticized the Commission 's proposals on the grounds that they would give industry a licence to burn waste rather than encourage it to minimize the production of waste . |
| 14 | Draw a number line like the one above and use it to answer the questions , starting from zero each time . |
| 15 | ‘ When Julius phoned me yesterday and asked me to bring the files he wanted to work on , he did n't tell me you were staying here . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Then I 'd clear off and leave you to face the music , ’ he had sneered . |
| 17 | ‘ Pompey 's third goal killed us off and allowed them to run the show . |
| 18 | The APT takes this principle a stage further and enables us to define the expected risk premium of the security as a function of the risk premium of any index . |
| 19 | If I were to begin to manage another major artist , and Mark Knopfler were to ring up and ask me to get the band back together for an album and a world tour , something would have to suffer . |
| 20 | Pat rung up and wanted me to fetch the dressing table on Tuesday night I said yeah alright I 'll do Wednes but I forgot I was going out with the girls Wednesday so I went out Tuesday and she would n't let me have it , cos Tuesdays they 're not working in the kitchen |
| 21 | ‘ Michael was anxious to get it sorted out and asked me to arrange the wedding . ’ |
| 22 | If Mr Moynihan is keen to hang on to his job he should get on to FIFA now and tell them to make the booking . |
| 23 | There is no-one to round him off , hold him back and help him to lessen the inevitable path to the eccentricity . |
| 24 | In his spare time he became more and more interested in amateur dramatics , as well as teaching himself to play the violin . |
| 25 | They also want your reliability — they want to rely on you being there and to trust you to get the job done . |
| 26 | Wilson 's own choice of metaphor was no longer that of the centre forward , but the seasoned centre half feeding passes to his experienced forwards and allowing them to score the goals . |
| 27 | This transfers your weight forwards and allows you to lift the rear foot quickly . |
| 28 | Hard scientific evidence must either help the police to use hypnosis safely or lead them to reject the technique altogether . |