Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruari and Ranald normally lazed about , cut peat , or borrowed a boat and rowed out to do a bit fishing to stock up for the winter , while Luch did her usual tasks and her usual check on the baby — the babies , now — in the bower . |
| 2 | permission from the Association of Northern Ireland Car Clubs to opt out of the NI championship for one year only , but they have agreed and so will be running the event for vintage , historic and class cars only , ’ says William Heaney of the TSCC . |
| 3 | A TEENAGER began a £135,000 credit fraud spree to keep up with the yuppie lifestyle of his workmates , a court was told yesterday . |
| 4 | There is a choice of either black or multi-colour stretch fabric to team up with the Jarol yarn colours ! |
| 5 | A good deal of improvisation was necessary and Martha had put three tin plates to heat up over the hissing saucepan of beans . |
| 6 | Finally , David Stirling intended to take a small party and penetrate right through the enemy lines to join up with the First Army , which had landed in Algeria . |
| 7 | Persian forces crossed the river Araxes in mid-July 1826 and forced Russia 's frontier troops to fall back on the Georgian capital of Tiflis ( Tbilisi ) . |
| 8 | When I 'd finished I thought I 'd go to the living room to curl up by the gas fire . |
| 9 | What 's more , this car will certainly not be the last hot road car development to roll out of the factory . |
| 10 | It is essentially a problem-solving exercise in which there must be a close relationship between sales effort on the ground and the ability of the applications and research staff to come up with the answers , within the boundaries of what is commercially viable . |
| 11 | Nadia has already seen a good deal of Scotland , and also went on a school trip to France and Belgium when pupils of St Mary 's accompanied members of a pensioners ' lunch club to find out about the European Community and the European Parliament . |
| 12 | A subsidised dog neutering scheme is being extended in South Tyneside to cut down on the number of stray dogs . |
| 13 | ‘ Back into battle formation to climb out over the Bristol Channel for air combat manoeuvres . |
| 14 | BTR 's headquarters leaves decentralised management teams to get on with the day-to-day job of running each business . |
| 15 | A pipe feeding the power steering system came adrift on the climb oil to pump out of the hydraulic system , and Fisher seized the opportunity to start building a lead that was eventually to carry him to a record fourth successive Lakes victory . |
| 16 | We were almost into November now and I did n't need to be an expert navigator to work out from the charts , and the Admiralty Pilot lying open on the chart table , that to be into the south of the Weddell Sea in time to take maximum advantage of the summer loosening of the pack we would need to be away not later than end-November . |
| 17 | Although the skirt panels look perfectly flat when seen on air , in reality they follow varying angles to the original base vertical planes , bending ever so slightly as they rise up from the fender section to join up at the midriff . |
| 18 | The paramount feature of pentatonic scales is the absence of semitones : This absence of semitones has two effects : there is no leading note to pull towards the tonic ; and no fourth degree note to gravitate down to the third . |
| 19 | Well regarded for its colour-illustrated articles by noted authors , many from the museum field , the journal had a devoted following of around 10,000 subscribers , but needed a cash infusion to get out of the red . |
| 20 | I therefore walked on air as I went to Westminster Evening Institute to sign on for the next Sociology year . |
| 21 | THE STORY of British incompetence wasting the flower of ANZAC youth on a Dardanelles beach , this was one of two great war flicks to come out of the late '70s/early '80s Australian movie boom ( the ‘ Nam-set The Odd Angry Shot was the other ) . |
| 22 | I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience . |
| 23 | The Pack spent a busy evening making up gift parcels to take round to the orphanage and to other people on the Guider 's list . |
| 24 | She hit her and at the same time as she hit her she virtually came to a er , a stop because of the fact she wa she started to brake as soon as she saw the the children appear er , but ne never the less contact was made but thankfully for her and for the child the the contact was a a at no significant speed , the child was just knocked off her feet and she got up and waved to Mrs and said I 'm alright and she ran off and she was away before Mrs had time , even to undo her safety belt to get out of the car . |
| 25 | British Gas says there were no faults with installations in the cottage , which 21-year-old Charlotte shared with her mother , but a cold snap may have caused poisonous carbon monoxide fumes to leak back into the bedroom . |
| 26 | The deadline has come and gone for ball companies to sign up to the new and revised agreement to be part of the LTA 's pool of ball sponsors for British tennis events . |
| 27 | if the war was going badly for NATO , and the USSR was already using nuclear weapons , the West would turn to the cruise missiles to strike back at the Warsaw Pact . |
| 28 | Generating company managers had merely allowed water levels to run down in the hope that the drought would eventually end ; only in March 1992 did they admit to a disaster , announcing nationwide rationing which was currently believed to be costing the economy an estimated US$330,000 each week . |
| 29 | Outward investment may be banned because it weakens the balance of payments and allows the life-blood capital to leak out of the system , whilst inflows of currency may be repulsed because they cause the exchange rate to rise to unacceptable levels or add to the domestic supply of money and thus threaten inflation . |
| 30 | There could have even been a Spot the Architect competition to go along with the design competition . |