Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] the [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside my living day stretched on to poach the night while I cried . |
| 2 | Indeed , Braveman and Jarvis ( 1978 ) , having argued that their results imply separate mechanisms for the two phenomena , go on to acknowledge the possibility that their results might simply reflect the use of a test procedure that was less sensitive as a measure of conditioning than as a measure of neophobia . |
| 3 | Barely looking at his wife , Harold said , ‘ I thought I 'd drive Felicity down to see the College after we 've had a cup of tea . ’ |
| 4 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 5 | Then they have to send Ministers like that youngster around the world with a begging bowl to get other industries to come in to repair the damage that they have done . |
| 6 | Well , the lids of these racks rattled like mad as they put the hay in to feed the sheep after they had given birth . |
| 7 | Having delivered the presents , however , her next stop was the basement , which had been hastily and frugally fitted out to house the appeals office , with its six telephone lines and fifty cramped volunteers drafted in to handle the money as it flooded in . |
| 8 | She sat down to conceal the fact that she was trembling . |
| 9 | Officials were forced to step in to calm the pair as they rowed on board a British Airways flight to a summit in Ottowa , Canada . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I was with him when the call came in to do the video so I was listening to the call , although I was minding my own business . |
| 11 | that they came in to snatch the bodies and they put a a double watch on . |
| 12 | So far as can be judged , the water supply was so poor that by September 1908 a Consulting Engineer was brought in to examine the problem although nothing further is recorded on the subject . |
| 13 | Sniffer dogs , brought in to follow the men after they abandoned the vehicle in a ditch , tracked them to Laughterton , near Gainsborough , Lincs . |
| 14 | Erm I mean maybe they have n't had very much , but erm but in , in a sense there 's a sort of huge commitment on their part to that , because they actually , I remember some chap came over to do the talk and I think he 's got four kids and he said , well you know , I did n't know how my kids were going to react to people fine you know |
| 15 | The soldiers bent over to form the arches but they were no good as they kept moving all over the place and there seemed to be no rules or sense of order to the game . |
| 16 | The court then went on to apply the law as it saw it to the facts of the case . |
| 17 | He immediately set off to hand the purse and its contents into the Clansford club office and there he found a distressed but very grateful Mrs Edie Moon ( 82 ) , Clansford 's oldest supporter . |
| 18 | The elderly relatives did what they could but it meant that all through his life — not that he even survived to forty — there was never a chance to take it a bit easier , no one he could rely on to do the work if he was ill or tired . |
| 19 | That fact that in , a two years time I can go on to do the subjects that I want to do at the University in Scotland of my choice . |
| 20 | The Sherman brothers looked up to see the governor and their father talking to an old Annamese with a long gray goatee , who was wearing a black-winged Ming dynasty mandarin 's bonnet and a long embroidered gown of brilliant sea-green silk . |
| 21 | The practitioner utilizing this block steps up to meet the kick as it is coming in , thus meeting it before it has gained full momentum and power . |
| 22 | ‘ I was brought up to respect the police but there does not seem to be the respect any more . |
| 23 | We have been brought up to regard the house as our domain , and , despite wanting a man to pull his weight , can resent the feeling of being usurped . |
| 24 | Already Scottish Tory Mps are lining up to threaten the Government that they will withhold support or even vote against if Rosyth is forsaken . |
| 25 | Having discussed the place of the professional-managerial class in the stratification system , the Ehrenreichs go on to consider the role that it has played in class conflict in the USA over recent decades . |
| 26 | His mother had made him take me out to see the sights and he was bored and resentful . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll be back to see the bodies if they do . ’ |
| 28 | When a colony was launched as the property of a single owner he , or one of his family , might go out to oversee the administration but he was unlikely to cut his links with England , if only because it was important to be able to maintain the court favour which was part of the political strength needed by anyone who wanted to run a colony on his own . |
| 29 | A series of dots sits in the middle of the screen , set out to give the impression that they 're painted onto an invisible ball — the dots ‘ nearest ’ to you are thus larger than the ones on the back of the ‘ sphere ’ . |
| 30 | The C[atholic] C[urate] was sent out to patrol the roads and anybody found or seen on the roads had to give their names . |