Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily , Andy cottoned on to what I was trying to say and took the cradle to the top of the building , where we had to jump six feet on to the roof . |
| 2 | ‘ If that is the case , we would wish to pass those savings back to the school . ’ |
| 3 | Seat UK 's strategic move away from advertising its cars as cheap and cheerful , and towards the ‘ quality driven consumer ’ , has n't prevented the Spanish manufacturer from continuing to launch ultra-cheap models on to the market . |
| 4 | John had been loading coals into a wagon on the instructions of another driver and then , to use his own words " I went to pick some chickens out of the breeze " and whilst doing so was attacked . |
| 5 | An originating application was issued by the administrators on 23 November 1990 , and on 30 November 1990 the registrar gave leave to serve these proceedings out of the jurisdiction . |
| 6 | At Buzzard Crag in Glen Nevis , and accompanied by Duncan McCallum and Johnny May ( good to see these boys back on the adventure trail ) , Rab climbed Virtual Reality , E5 6b left of Liminality . |
| 7 | The latter approach attempts to carry these ambiguities around in the form of constraints . |
| 8 | It should be remembered that Employment Training Courses are designed to help unemployed adults back into the labour market , participation being entirely voluntary . |
| 9 | Fortunately those games brought together Europe 's Big Four who between them were to win six points out of the nine which Europe had accumulated at the end of the first two days . |
| 10 | Then , after a while without having stolen anything , they 'll leave , pausing only to stick two fingers up at the store detective on the way out , ’ he says . |
| 11 | As Vogue stated in a 1920 cruise report , ‘ The Master-At-Arms ' stern duty is to drive late lovers out of the lifeboats . ’ |
| 12 | Predictably , the main bone of contention is the depiction of ‘ aroused ’ males — they 're happy to let naked women on to the shelves . |
| 13 | On hollow walls , the solution for heavy loads is to fix horizontal battens on to the wall , secured with 2″ or longer screws into the vertical studs supporting the wall . |
| 14 | As the case study of Channel Four ( see below ) amply demonstrates , concerned groups and individuals attempted to keep these services out of the competitive struggle between the two giants of broadcasting in the hope that they would be better able to serve previously excluded minority groups in society . |
| 15 | Well it is possible of course and I think that er the European Nations , including those in Eastern Europe er ought to be getting together to consult about what we can do , because I do n't think it 's right simply to send these refugees back as the er Italians have been doing , er in fact there likely to be amongst . |
| 16 | One teacher said he would like to send all blacks back on the banana boat , and another told her that he was unable to sit by her because she was black . |
| 17 | This requirement to keep nuclear weapons out of the southern part of the western hemisphere is reinforced by Protocol 11 of the treaty . |
| 18 | What if the man had for years been an opera singer in England — it was a chillul hashem , a profanation of the Divine Name , to mix operatic arias in with the traditional sacred melodies . |
| 19 | When , for instance , England was asked to send two players out to the Tournament of Nations , run in conjunction with the Italian Women 's Championship , it had no hesitation in dispatching Katie Tebbet and Sarah Palmer , two youngsters who , although they had not done enough to make the Home International team , were clearly worth encouraging . |
| 20 | If you try to squeeze these requirements in around the mainstream business , you will be left with scrappy little bits of free time that are useless , and your visitors will feel cheated . |
| 21 | The tumbler lock was made with a perforated bolt which could be slid along once a suitable key had been inserted , to lift vertical pins out of the bolt and thus release it . |
| 22 | People , their understandings of their circumstances and their struggles to force collective facilities out of the state , were again under-conceptualised and , indeed , even seemed to have a small role to play . |
| 23 | He says we need to get private cars out of the city centre and make it into a place which is safe for pedestrians and cyclists , not polluted and where the buildings are n't being torn apart by traffic . |
| 24 | During the twelfth century , bishops began to exercise greater jurisdiction and , beginning with Archbishop Lanfranc , there was increasing pressure to get private churches out of the landowners ’ control and under episcopal control . |
| 25 | The purpose of this chapter is to review such developments along with the more mundane business of recruiting new partners and opening new offices generally , and to analyse some of the problems they involve . |
| 26 | From the tablet a graphics program is called which allows the operator to insert chosen values on to the displayed graph axis . |
| 27 | Just when Tod has established our relationship with Irene on a secure footing , the kind of set-up that any sane man would kill for , with her punctual visits and affectionate phone calls , the movies we enjoy together , the fine dining , the peace and safety ( the forgiveness ) that her presence confers , plus the exquisitely torpid lovemaking which takes place right on the button every couple of months or so , and reaching the stage , now , where I think we can tackle her , gently but firmly , about her untidiness around the house , because it 's best to get these things out in the open , not to let them rankle and fester , and so on-guess what . |
| 28 | Pointing at the three musclemen positioned outside his HQ 's entrance , he added : ‘ We 'd be stupid not to have these guys around at the moment . ’ |
| 29 | In America corporate bosses and Wall Street are in rare agreement about the need to get retail investors back onto the shareholding registers . |
| 30 | The vast majority of teachers are working extremely hard to achieve good results under the national curriculum and our aim is to get all schools up to the standards of the best . |