Example sentences of "[to-vb] or [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The makeshift bomb lobbed into an upstairs bedroom was packed with nuts , bolts and glass in an attempt to kill or maim anyone in the room . |
| 2 | Community Care Grants are to enable people to establish or maintain themselves in the community rather than having to be in hospitals , nursing homes and residential care homes etc . |
| 3 | The Area Director also has power to discharge or revoke it upon the happening of specified events including a request from the applicant so to do , or where the aid has been abused , or where the applicant is in arrears with contributions , or where the applicant 's financial position improves so that he or she is able to afford to fund legal action . |
| 4 | The general law of confidential information would impose a duty to the donors of information not to use or disclose it beyond the purposes for which it is given without consent of the donors . |
| 5 | He had inched his way to the dark bathroom , and stood slumped over the sink , feeling lost , depersonalized , and trying to soothe or tether himself with the running water . |
| 6 | For large tensile specimens most test machines use swivelling or gimbal grip mountings to avoid such effects of non-axiality , but when small specimens are used , of a few millimetres in cross-section as is common with polymer tests , axiality may become more difficult to achieve because the mass of the swivelling grip requires considerable stress to rotate or move it into the axial position . |
| 7 | What the charity groups think of him is hardly going to make or break him in the operatic world . ’ |